The 8-year-old’s murder changed England’s laws. Sarah Payne via bbc.co.uk Playing hide and seek with her brothers and sister in a cornfield, Sarah crawled through a gap in the tall harvest and onto the road adjacent to the field. She was heading back to her grandparents’ home because she’d received a knock on the head, but while walking down the road, she was abducted by a man in a white van. What came next was England’s worst child murder at the time. Eight-year-old Sarah g

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