A Stolen Childhood: A dark past, a terrible secret, a girl without a future

Bestselling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a deeply shocking secret she€s too young to even understand.

When Casey first meets Kiera, a small slight girl who€s just lashed out at a fellow pupil in assembly, she immediately senses something€s wrong. Something in Kiera€s eyes alerts Casey that this is an €œold head on young shoulders€, and with Kiera€s constant tiredness and self-soothing habit of pulling her hair out, she follows her instinct and takes Kiera under her wing.

At first the answer seems simple enough; Kiera€s parents aren€t together and they don€t get on, which makes life hard for Kiera as she€s so close to her dad. But as the weeks roll on, Casey begins to understand that there€s something much darker going on behind closed doors. And when she finally learns the truth, she€s terrified she won€t be able to save Kiera from it.