Stace Don

They were known to the system for sexual activity with a minor under the age of, I think she was 14.

And that's public knowledge, that's all.

The social services would have had that information.

I think my foster parents would have had that also.

And he was one of them.

He'd walk past their house constantly to try and intimidate them and stuff.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I only found that out through doing my book.

Went to the courts and, yeah, it's public knowledge there, so...

So they told me who my mum was and said that my foster mum and dad aren't my mum and dad.

But at first they denied that he was my dad.

Yeah, no, I didn't question it because I was only younger.

In my head, I can't understand how it went from that because a few months later, I was having supervised access visits with him through the social services, but I don't actually remember him telling me that he was my dad.

I just kept going out meeting him after that because I felt like he was the only one that told me the truth, you know, about did my foster mum and dad, were my mum and dad.

Constantly.

Yeah.

And on my foster parents' streets or where we lived, we lived in a cul-de-sac and there was a shop at the top of the street and you could literally watch my foster parents' house from the shop.

And I'd walk out my house and he'd just be stood there.

I'd go out with my friends on my bike and he'd take my bike off me and start walking down the street with my bike.