Stace Don

My behaviour around them had completely changed.

And they just failed to choose to ignore the signs that I was showing to say that I wanted to go back home.

But I couldn't openly speak out because they would always ask me questions in front of my mum and her partner, which I didn't feel comfortable doing.

And then the police, they didn't support me even through the court case and different things like that.

And the probation, they offered me some sort of camp thing for me and my daughter to go to when Katie was seven.

He just got out of prison.

And I was up for going, you know, to try and build our bond, you know, because of the struggles and misprocessing the trauma and everything else.

Like, it did...

He did like tire it a little bit, you know, because I was struggling.

So we was going to go to that.

And then literally a week before I was supposed to go out and go to this camp, you know, for me to try and build this bond with my daughter and learn how to be a mum as well, because it was all, I didn't, it didn't come like naturally because I didn't know I had nothing to go off.

And they said I didn't fit criteria because it was three years after he'd been sentenced, so I didn't fit criteria.

And I just thought that in itself is a joke because how can I not fit criteria?

You're telling me I'm the only case in the UK.

You're just shutting me behind closed doors.

I even begged them to section me after I had to tell my daughter the truth at 13 years old.

I begged them to section me because I couldn't take it no more.

I was losing my mind.

He was taunting us.

He was hanging around my house.