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Podcast: Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast
Episode: The Murder of Baby Elsie
Description: In 2016, 340 children were adopted in Wales. Ten month old Shayla O’Brien was one of those 340 children.
Like most children put up for adoption, Shayla had entered this world under difficult circumstances. Born to a drug-addicted mother, she was added to the child protection register at birth, in November 2014. She left hospital when she was five days old and she was quickly taken into care by the Vale of Glamorgan council, before being placed with a foster family, where she remained until she was placed with an adoptive family in September 2015, at the age of ten months.