“Room:” A Story of Captivity Told From a Five-Year Old Boy’s Perspective

Posted: December 27, 2011 in recommended

Reblogged from The Baochi Banter:

Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped at age eleven in 1991 and held in captivity for eighteen years. During that time, Dugard was raped repeatedly by her captor – Phillip Craig Garrido — and she gave birth to two daughters. In Austria, Elisabeth Fritzl experienced similar atrocities as a prisoner of her own father, Josef Fritzl, who locked her up for twenty-four years in the family’s basement. By the time Elisabeth emerged, she was forty-two and a mother of seven, all the result of rape by her father. The …

I saw this on the News and my heart broke for Dugard. Words could not even describe how terrible and self centered the person who imprisoned and raped her countless of times. I will read this book when available on the shelves…..
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