Believing that he and Hannah could make up to Janie for the bad start she’d had in her life, Christopher talked Hannah into adopting Janie. She was so tiny and malnourished that it was believed she was a toddler but measurements of her growth plates showed that she was actually six years old. Janie was found wandering in a parking lot wearing nothing but a diaper and a dog collar. The situation got even worse when Hannah discovered she was pregnant with a child of her own, a child she was finally able to carry to term.Ĭhristopher met Janie when he was called to consult on a case of dreadful abuse. Soon she realized Janie was intentionally manipulating her, trying to pull her and Christopher apart. Even after Hannah agreed to adopt Janie, she struggled to bond with the girl. When Christopher bonded with Janie, a girl believed to have been badly abused by her parents, he convinced Hannah that Janie was the child for whom they had been waiting. Their dreams were destroyed after Hannah suffered multiple miscarriages. In the novel The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry, Hannah and Christopher Bauer dreamed of having a child of their own. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Berry, Lucinda.
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