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I TURNED IN MY OWN SON FOR MURDER

Janette Campbell was having problems with her son.

She knew 16-year-old Aaron was smoking cannabis, drinking heavily and playing violent video games.

She also knew he had an unhealthy obsession with the character Slender Man, a fictional child abductor.

But with her husband Christopher, an oil industry worker overseas for long periods of time, Janette felt powerless to take action by herself.

Instead, she kept quiet, hoping it was a phase her son would grow out

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