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      Sunday Times Bestselling Author

      Casey Watson

      Little Prisoners

      A Tragic Story of Siblings Trapped in a World of Abuse and Suffering

      Copyright

      This book is a work of non-fiction based on the author’s experiences.

       In order to protect privacy, names, identifying characteristics, dialogue and details have been changed or reconstructed.

      HarperElement

       An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      and HarperElement are trademarks of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

      First published by HarperElement 2012

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      © Casey Watson 2012

      Casey Watson asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library

      LITTLE PRISONERS. © Casey Watson 2012. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

      Source ISBN: 9780007436606

      Ebook Edition © APRIL 2012 ISBN: 9780007436613 Version 2016-11-25

      Dedication

      To my wonderful and supportive family

      Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Chapter 1

      My husband, Mike, always bagged the window seat on planes,…

      Chapter 2

      Fighting the need to gag, I ushered everyone inside, pasting…

      Chapter 3

      When Mike and I returned to the living room the…

      Chapter 4

      It felt like the middle of the night when I…

      Chapter 5

      ‘We come bearing gifts!’

      Chapter 6

      The type of fostering Mike and I had originally been…

      Chapter 7

      Finding out they were ‘in care’ upset the children dreadfully,…

      Chapter 8

      It was a Saturday afternoon, towards the end of September,…

      Chapter 9

      If I was frustrated by a lack of action on…

      Chapter 10

      The main finding Anna wanted to share with me concerned…

      Chapter 11

      The journey back home from Wales was a tense affair.

      Chapter 12

      I had decided, during one of many bouts of sleeplessness…

      Chapter 13

      It took Ashton some time to act normally around us…

      Chapter 14

      I didn’t have a clue how to turn things around…

      Chapter 15

      I called Anna the next morning. I felt helpless; I…

      Chapter 16

      ‘You know what?’ Mike said to me the following evening,…

      Chapter 17

      I brooded about that meeting all week. After we’d left…

      Chapter 18

      It had been such a delight to see Justin. He…

      Chapter 19

      Only a couple of weeks after the birth of Olivia’s…

      Chapter 20

      I grew more convinced, with every passing day, that these…

      Chapter 21

      It wasn’t that I wanted to label the children –…

      Chapter 22

      Just as had happened at Christmas, Easter passed almost unnoticed…

      Chapter 23

      The call came from Anna just over a week later.

      Chapter 24

      It was agreed that we’d say goodbye to the children…

      Epilogue

      This letter takes pride of place underneath the photograph of…

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       Casey Watson

      Acknowledgements

       About the Publisher

      Chapter 1

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