num_pages: 304
description: Fourteen-year-old Adrianna arrives on Caseys doorstep with no possessions no English and no explanation. It will be a few weeks before Casey starts getting the shocking answers to her questions.Brought to Casey as a short-term emergency placement fourteen-year-old Adrianna arrives with nothing but her gratitude. Having turned herself in to a social services office some hundred miles away she has no possessions no English and apparently no history  not that shes willing to share anyway. She is a beautiful young Polish girl with the bearing of a ballerina but is terrified malnourished and unwell. And having slept rough for some time (the little they do know about her) she spends much of her first days with Watsons asleep in bed.Growing concerned about Adriannas wellbeing and her persistent high temperature Casey decides to call in the GP. But to her surprise Adrianna becomes almost hysterical about being examined and given her refusal to talk  even via the interpreter theyve brought in for her  Caseys fostering antennae begin twitching. Where has she come from? And why is she so terrified to be touched? What has happened to make her so ill and scared?It will be a few weeks before Casey starts getting answers to these questions. Shocking answers; ones that throw up a whole host of new questions and the beginnings of a journey to find justice for Adrianna and more importantly a future and a home
language: English
title: Runaway Girl: A beautiful girl. Trafficked for sex. Is there nowhere to hide?
publisher: Harper Element