Last week, we heard from Tiana Wadsworth, and throughout her story, there was one name that kept coming up. Today, we meet him.

As a kid, Klayton was infatuated with the drug addicts who hung around his local train station. While other kids looked away, Klayton felt drawn in. To him, they looked like his people.

Mirroring someone close to him, Klayton tried drugs at just 12 years old,and quickly became hooked, using every single day.

What came next? homelessness, crime sprees, and one devastating choice: taking custody from his own mum without even realising it.

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses themes of violence and substance abuse.

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