The school intercom crackled and Jessica Barrett’s name was called for her to go to the front office. She was 17, a high school senior in Charlotte, North Carolina, thinking about graduation, friends and college applications.
‘I thought I must be in trouble and couldn’t think why,’ she recalls.
But waiting for her outside the school office was a police officer – and something in his expression made her stomach drop.
He wouldn’t say what had happened, only that it involved her father and that she needed to accompany him to the station.
At the station, she was reunited with her two younger brothers,
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