A restaurant manager's secret note helped rescue a young boy from his abusive step-dad who has since been jailed for life.
Flavaine Carvalho, from Florida, US, noticed the 11-year-old boy had been denied food when he and his family visited the Mrs Potato Restaurant where she worked.
She was serving their table and saw the boy appeared to have bruises on his body and was forced to sit away from his family when they visited on New Year's Day last year.