In October 1997, Carey Gibson received a call informing her
that her missing younger brother, Nicholas Barclay, had been discovered in
Spain. She was bewildered and overjoyed. Thirteen year old Nicholas had
disappeared three years earlier whilst walking back to his family’s San Antonio
home, and this one call was the first they had heard from him. Once Nicholas returned,
though, something seemed subtly off. His altered demeanour and appearance was
explained as the result of years of sexual abuse he claimed to have suffered, so
his quiet, withdrawn attitude could be due to that trauma. However, that was
not the case.