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‘My bubbly, outgoing girl was gone’

Corinne Burns, 42, Gateshead

Watching my daughter Mackenzie, then 6, eating her breakfast, I had never seen her look so low.

It was 2012 and, while she’d once been a bubbly and outgoing little girl, she was now distant and would often cry before school, begging me not to take her.

When I noticed her bedsheets were wet, I really started to worry.

What’s wrong, poppet?’ I kept asking.

I didn’t

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