'Meet Kiara': Stittsville mom 'goes public' about daughter's special needs

When police brought home her daughter, Kiara, after they found her perched barefoot on the railing of a small bridge on Hazeldean Road, Stittsville’s Shannon Whitney took an extraordinary step.
She went public, “outing” Kiara (with Kiara’s permission) to the Stittsville Neighbours Facebook page.
“I’d like to introduce you to my daughter, Kiara,” Whitney wrote in the post last month. “Kiara is a loving, caring, content teenager who strongly val