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Victoria Bristow was devastated when she was forced to place her adopted son back into the care of social services, after years of struggling with little support.
“It broke my heart. But my son’s behaviour was unmanageable. He was violent. He would attack his sister, he would attack me, he attacked his grandmother. He was running away, and I was having to report him as missing – at this point he was only 10 years old,” she said.
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