Girl In The Closet Case

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The case of “the Girl in the Closet” involves a young child named Lauren Kavanaugh along with her mother Barbara and her stepfather Kenneth Atkinson. Young Lauren spent five years living in a closet starting at the age of three, during this time the abuse and torture occurred. In addition, Lauren was deprived of food and water and left in the darkness with no other interactions other than with her abusive parents. When she was rescued on June 11th, 2001 at the age of eight, she was rushed to the hospital because her body attempted to shut itself down. Lauren had the appearance of a “Holocaust survivor – bloated belly, protruding ribs…she weighed 25.6 pounds, the size of an average 2-year-old, and damaged in ways doctors had never seen” (Farewell,

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