Abstract
I would give my life for hers and suffer anything to protect her. She is my daughter. The first time I met Holly was with her mother. ‘She’s rattling’ , said her mother. Holly was in heroin withdrawal in her mother’s womb and her fetal legs kicked her rhythmically. After birth she was given an opiate detox in the special-care baby unit and immunised against hepatitis B. A beautiful baby and much loved by her family. Thankfully, she was free of other infectious diseases — her mother was a hepatitis C carrier. Uncles, aunts, and grandparents cooed over their new addition to the family. All the best that money could buy — new clothes, pram, and cot. As Holly went home her name was placed on the Child Protection Register. Holly was free. She gazed, mesmerised, from the 20th floor …
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