The message from Becky’s school — innocuous in its vagueness — merely reported that there had been an ‘incident’. It was much more than that: in fact, Becky’s parents discovered their daughter had been brutally assaulted by a fellow pupil. Clumps of her hair had been pulled out.
Her face and body were bruised, her lip swollen. So severe were the injuries to her legs, she was unable to walk for a fortnight.
But as bad as the physical battering