🤗 continue your life with the strength, honour and love and in God’s care. Blessing

@Vicky ELDRIDGE God never lifted a finger to help her in her tortured life.....humans did. The police did.

God is just a fairy tale parents tell their kids so they have something positive to believe in throughout life.

@Vicky ELDRIDGE 12 p

She’s the best case of a survivor i have ever seen.

They are all creeps.

Yeah, what a nice family...

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She had, in the form of her new foster parents

​@John Wick I think they meant biological

@Orchid I think they meant people in general

Why no replies ? Don't worry I'll fix that,and yeah,you're right.

Monsters look like you and me we nevrr kmow who is who

@Sleepingfrog now theres 3 :)

Monsters like these are everywhere. As a mother of two beautiful innocent boys that fact keeps me up at night.

@Marion Kemperman Among us.

This is true. Everybody wit the least , suffers the worst

That's how exploitation works. Predators Seek out these children

The good thing is that most of the kids whom experienced similar situation they end up being remarkable and amazing people when they grown up, just like Katie.

unseen thankfully does that in like every video its so incredibly respectful props to them

@CancerBitch / CB that’s so nice of them

They treated her story with so much dignity and respect

They deserve the worst possible punishment, I agree.

Amen

Fax bro

Printer bro

I honestly find it more interesting when they cover these aspects because gives me some insights on the perpetuator's character

All I can think of when they describe it too much is how the pathetic viewers just like to hear about abuse to entertain themselves. Real factual shows with half an ounce of class omit the graphic details.

@Jewel Torkelson I mean we watch these videos to entertain ourselves, whatever is it for learning or for actual entertainment, it's hard to click a video about abuse without wanting or expect it to talk about the abuse, I study psychology and those details interest me

@Asriel🗿 how is that of any use for you? also 95% of the time they dont even describe it in a neutral fact and information based manner. It's just shock and awe for gross viewers. For me, I know they were abused. Out of respect and to keep their dignity in tact, I dont need to hear about how horrible it was or how painful it was. How sadistic are people to want to hear that. I'm also here, watching awful stories for my own interest, but I'm not interested in hearing in graphic detail about each rape she endured.

Maybe it’s best not to hear about it

She’s a really strong person. I can’t imagine if I were in her shoes at such a young age, I’d lose my mind.

her foster parents and therapist made all the difference

@pinkpugginz SHE made the difference I would say.

Jaycee Dugard was much worse than her case. she was captive for years until she finally fled in her 20s! and had 3 children with the captor.

@Michel Rood I would say both are true. Having trustworthy caring people in her life laid the foundation, but I would imagine it took a lot on her part to be capable of having trust, or any semblance of trust.

I agree and isn't it crazy how many years later alot of people are trying to normalize the sexual abuse of children, unfucking believable

totaly agree, they should not be aloud to keep breathing

They don’t get better, only more depraved. That is so very apparent that criminals in jail will kill them off if they get the chance.

Woman ☕

Even if people only get 2 to 9 months in the bin for SA, the second other inmates get the info that you're in for diddling a child they will make sure you won't have an easy time

@Baron von Shekel that's not enough. The sentences need to be more severe. These people tend to be recedivists

most predators don't serve much time. I think women get less time than men too. there are so many other petty crimes that give you longer time ... it's so disappointing.

ALL sex abusers deserve life in prison without parole or death by torture regardless of the victim's age or circumstances.

More than the food, it impressed me that she had the intelligence to count the links to know how to chain herself back up without raising suspicion. A lot of adults wouldn't even think of that. Unfortunately kids in her kind of upbringing often develop survival skills at a very early age, especially bc of hypervigilance (a symptom of trauma).

@SchizoPlaysHorror yeah call me cynical but I doubt that part

@SchizoPlaysHorror yes I totally agree! I just zeroed in on the food specifically because genuinely even as an adult my last thought would be that somethings been done to the food, because I imagine you would be starting all the time in such a situation. She's too brilliant!

@John R it's basic psychology, though.

@Do It Again, I Wasnt Looking what's basic about it?

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She is married with a family and is an inspirational speaker to help other victims.

ur so strong. i hope ur ok :).

I'm so sorry you went through that.

Same, but selfishly I just don't want to mentally go thru that again...

@Go Hawks That is not selfish at all! I don't blame you at all. I hope you have a calm and peaceful life from this moment on

@JUST_ASMR! Thank you☺️ God bless💗

intriguing Woman Go find some manners. No need to be so rude when all that person did was make a valid point.

Did you even listen to the story? Her family members abused her first.

it's all about intentions. You can tell who is genuine and not (sometimes). Don't let just anybody around your kid just cause you "know" them

@Valeria G intentions? How can you possibly know someone’s real intentions? If they are evil, do you think they will tell you that?

Yes, and how encouraging to hear about a good foster family!

A well deserved happy ending for this little angel 😇 who is now a mom!

@Nuvia Erivez and she’s a way better mom than her biological mother.

He is not a true psychopath. That is why he cracked. You dont know what true mastermind and psychopath looks like. Imagine if he is a serial killer, he would not hesistate to end her life

@user true, but regardless, he was a sick and horrible man and she is so strong. she’s a survivor and an inspiration and she deserves to be known as such.

@user Even a true psychopath would know that he's making things worse for himself if he kills her. He'd do more time for murder. The Police and news people were outside and even inside his house, so he couldn't relocate her somewhere else. Naw, it was the only move he could make.

@user yea he was quite dumb actually. He didn't need to take her at all, he could've seduced and groomed her, he was the only person she loved or that paid attention to her.

The crazy thing is that the abuse she previously recieved almost preparred her as she had to grow up fast with her godmother and sick uncle. It sounds horrible, but that's the reality. Having to grow up because of abuse, that either kills you or makes you insanely smart and a survivor.

Yes she was highly intelligent and had more awareness than most adults in a situation like that. Her curiosity, persistence and refusal to do certain things was the difference between life and death for her.

@Eileen McKeefery could've also become her death though if the kidnapper snapped. Some would've just killed her if she refused and they feel too pressured. So yeah..smart but also REALLY LUCKY

She was lucky. Extremely lucky. Her smarts had nothing to do with what he was willing to do or not do. Psychopaths don’t have a conscience. You can’t appeal to them. He wasn’t a killer. That’s her only saving grace.

@R Voityou’re a lil special

I know what you mean. Even I started crying too. The pain on his expression was so emotional. You can tell this man deeply and genuinely cares a whole lot. He does his job the right way unlike her parents/godparents.

He was so emotional that his chin was quivering from trying to hold in the tears.

Yeah I also had to cry. And heard him reading so fierce, and than he had to cry and I cried even more.

Fr, I never cry at this stuff but that got me

The way his voice broke 🥺 He'll be thinking of little Katie on his deathbed...

Be strong Katie...

Awful. Sounds like something that would happen in a third world country.

@Carol Maresca To me, it doesn't. I have no clue where society collectively got the idea that the more impoverished and backwater a place you live in, the more twisted shit that goes on inside of it. True Crime got its start centuries ago, but I was born in 1990, and grew up during roughly the second decade in a row of its skyrocketing popularity. I read huge encyclopedias on serial killers. I was never under the illusion that a country being richer, or (insert-majority-race-for-location-of-your-choice-here)-er, or more educated would somehow make me safer from absolute monsters. It just meant my death would be sensationalized, and then immediately overshadowed by the person who killed me in the long-term. And if I lived, I'd be living with emotional and physical trauma so horrid that I'd feel like surviving wasn't even worth it (that's a judgement of my own mindset, not how all survivors of sexual trauma should feel or some absurd shit like that). I can't ever imagine growing up feeling completely safe all the time, or at least safe enough to think that stories like these sound too alien to be happening at home. They've just _never_ felt alien to me.

My god I pray she will be strong and overcome this I can’t imagine

you can’t trust anyone, those closest to you are suspects

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16 and John 3:17

@Spicydramarama what

^^^^ Exactly. Can't say this enough.

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But there is also the fact that criminals should have an incentive not to commit another crime to coverup the first one. He is a monster he doesn't care about the girl's life, atleast he had an incentive to give up and not be in prison for life instead take the lesser punishment, this actually saved this young girl's life.

I'm crying, I'm too young for this. 😭😭

Well.put.

Best descriptive word ever.

Lately I’ve been using this slur as well lol

Not maggot, absolute non human worse than any creation!!!

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She had these survival skills because she was already used to surviving under terrifying adults. You have to be thinking two steps ahead of them or you get your ass kicked. It's absolutely admirable but it's also an incredibly sad testament to what she endured growing up.

@Christina T. yea i agree i had a rough chilkdhood and would do stuff lik ethat to avoid punishment (like putting things exactly where they were in the exact positions)

So kids are supposed to be dumb bc they’re younger than you?

Survival instincts kick in when traumatic situations like this happen. She probably didn’t even think about how smart it was to think at the time she probably just thought “shit I need to stay alive as long as possible”. Our brains do amazing things to keep us alive. She was exhibiting the fight response and it kept her alive.

@Iamjphnycc That's the logic we're taught. I, as an adult, still believe the older adults and abled people are smarter than me. I could be 80 and still think there are older better smarter people than me.