As parents, there comes a point in our children’s lives that we have to step back and learn to trust that they’ll be ok without us for a little bit. Whether it be sending them off to school, to camp, or overnight at a friend’s house.

Sometimes though, our fears about what might happen to our children when they’re out of our sight can shift horribly from paranoid fantasies to brutal reality. It was 6am in the morning when Pam got a phone call about her two girls, both of whom had been sleeping at a friend’s house the night before…