As Scarlett gets drawn deeper and deeper into her groomers clutches, she begins to go missing for weeks at a time. Her dad Marlon, in desperation, spends his nights searching for his daughter. He reports her missing to the police over 50 times in the space of a year but the police do nothing. And when the police finally do get involved, she’s arrested and strip-searched when she’s only 14 years old. 

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