The Disappearance and Murder of Sarah Payne

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…