Battered, Broken, Healed: A mother separated from her daughter. Only a painful truth can bring them back together

When
six-week-old Jasmine is placed into her care, foster mother Maggie Hartley is delighted to have a baby in the house again.

Maggie’s been given temporary custody of Jasmine after social services were concerned that the baby was failing to thrive and develop.

Her mother Hailey vehemently denies that anything is wrong, however, and social services allow her to have daily supervised visits with Jasmine.

Baby
Jasmine is a joy to be around, but Maggie suspects that all is not
quite as it seems with her mum. Timid and extremely quiet, Maggie
struggles to draw Hailey out of her shell and fears that she may be
suffering with postnatal depression.

Then one day a terrified Hailey turns up on Maggie’s doorstep with her hair streaked with blood and her body covered in bruises. Breaking down, she admits that she is
being abused by her violent husband, and is too afraid to leave him.

Maggie
realises that the only way mother and daughter will be reunited is if
Hailey admits what’s going on behind closed doors and leaves her
husband. But after years of physical and psychological abuse, that’s
easier said than done…