he read a victims impact statement at sentencing. in it, she addressed adam. i am the victim. i am also the survivor, she said. i am the one who will go out and live the lessons of this. i choose to lean in to the lesson, and challenge of finding forgiveness, compassion and peace. those words, bringing to a close not one, but two improbable stories. amanda s kidnapping, and the year spent in pursuit of justice. ten years of your life? ten years. five years for the undercover operation, ten years until conviction. worth it? absolutely. he is sitting right now in this country, in prison. do you ever think about that? it is justice. i do not take joy in any suffering, of any other human being. have you forgiven adam? i can t say yes or no to that question.
adam and again clearly grew frustrated, and adam took it out on lorinda. if i had the money, i would pay you. we are not playing games. it s you that are playing games. i am playing a game? you should see my game. how my game is. the escape attempt made things much worse for amanda. they tied her arms and her legs and pulled your body up by ropes and leave you? yes, it s very hard for me to go back to that and think about what happened to me during those three days. after that, adam forced her on to the phone again. it s one of the hardest calls to listen to. amanda money, money, money, money. listen to me, please. okay? amanda mom, you need to pay the million dollars now, because they ve started to torture me. the calls were agonizing.
objective oh we, definitely had one objective. the objective was to see him. confirm that adam was indeed the man who had terrorized amanda and lorinda. next, they wanted him to admit his involvement in the kidnapping. that s where the phony book deal came in. we knew that he was interested in writing a book. we brought pops and one of them was a book cover that we had designed. and i was going to sign a contract with him that laid out his and my relationship. these are the publisher. the contract had a trap buried in a. adam would have to disclose any wrongdoing in his past. it had a special paragraph and it that we had inserted. a disclosure paragraph to encourage him to tell us his story. he signed and incredibly, he told his story. including details of his involvement in the kidnapping. can you believe he seeing all of this out loud? i was dancing. it was amazing. you could ask for better
i m alone with my own thoughts and my mind. amanda s mind ryan wild. she feared she would be right. then one day, it kept or entered her room. it turns out your fears were defined? he did cross that line and my worst fears were realized. and my whole experience in captivity really changed. somehow, she held on. and then one night, amanda was jostled awake and driven out into the desert alone. what happened next was terrifying. they brought me over two and a cache a tree. they had me neil. my hell had just was pulled back and there was a surrey knife. the ruthless kidnappers told a desperate amanda she only had three minutes to plead for her life. with her traumatized mother on the other end of the call. if you guys don t p $1
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