Born in captivity is something that is usually, normally, attributed to animals. It was, however, a phrase that would always be associated with a young girl who was, quite literally, born in captivity. Logan Kennedy, known to law enforcement as child X, was one of more than twenty young children to be taken from a commune (read: cult) that was discovered in the deep woods of Oregon. Laurel was ten years old when law enforcement raided the small community and separated men from women, children from parents, brother from sister. The children were rounded up, treated for malnutrition and any number of diseases, and given case numbers. The children were then fed into the system, some hopelessly lost and tied down by endless red tape. Others, like Laurel, were dealt a kinder hand and were given homes with people who would try, and sometimes fail, to bring these children back to civilization to be upstanding citizens.

Logan was placed with Martin and Sarah Kinney. Martin was one of the officers on the raid, the one, in fact, who had taken Logan from her mother, a woman described as utterly ferel. Sarah, Martin's wife, was one of the medical professionals on site to help treat the children taken from the clutches of a cult that would have eventually sold the girls in to virtual slavery, and raised boys who were no better than trained killers. Sarah had been the doctor to treat Laurel, the one person that the girl calmed down for. Around everyone else, she screamed bloody murder, screaming for her mother, her father, anyone. The others had let the young girl scream until her throat was raw and she had no energy left to fight anyone. They treated her like an animal and, in return, she acted like one. It wasn't until Sarah tried a different approach that anyone got anywhere with her. It was because of that tentative bond, formed while trying to give the young girl simple medical treatments she so desperately needed, that Sarah convinced her husband to get the girl given over to their custody. It was a fight, but in the end, the powers that be determined it would be one less body the government was responsible for.

It would take months, even years, for authorities to determine what had been happening on the compound in the woods of Oregon. Ultimately it was determined that the group were religious zealots who grew their numbers by kidnapping impressionable men and women and then breeding children who would be trained as soldiers for their cause. The girls who showed no promise of being violent were made into little more than breeding mares. The boys of a similar disposition were turned out into the wild, most likely killed. The remaining children were virtually brainwashed for their "family's" cause and the group often carried out small but increasingly violent acts of domestic terrorism.

It would take months and years for anyone to determine the extent of the damage Logan's upbringing had on the girl, but its scars were visible almost from the start. Logan was a quiet child who preferred to be on her own. She was skiddish in large groups and going to school for the first time in her life wasn't easy. Martin and Sarah were called by the school more times than they could count to handle complaints about their daughter's behavior. Eventually the complaints got so bad that Sarah decided to take a sabatical from her practice in order to home school Logan and get her all the help she needed.