The Girl in the Closet

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Jasmine Robinson Kaplan University Unit 7 assignment CJ333 “THE GIRL IN THE CLOSET” A case that I’ve found is about a “girl in the closet”. This story is very sad and very emotional. It all started when she was an eight year old girl that weighed 25.6 pounds. She was being abused by her biological mother and her step farther. She also had six other brother and sisters but, they never got to know her because she was always called the “girl in the closet”. On this day June 2001 there was a girl that went by the name of Lauren she was only eight years old when she was abused and being raped and last but not least she was stuck in a closet. She would eat, sleep, and use the bathroom all in that one space. She had been starving for over twelve years. The most food she ever got was some crackers, bread, and water, the only time she may have gotten butter was when her younger brother snuck it into the closet for her. This little girl had lice in her head, bug bites on her inner thighs, and all kinds of bruises from abuse. Lauren also was being raped by the step farther and the mother. There was this police that came to their house and Lauren had to ask the police “can she got to the bathroom because they don’t let me”, the police automatically knew something wasn’t right. The police called an ambulance and that’s when Lauren was rushed to the children’s hospital where she needed help. Lauren was looking around and around because of the fact she has never been out that closet. She didn’t know what the sun looked like, she didn’t know what the grass felt like she also had to listen while her sibling’s would be outside playing while she locked in the closet. After a few days past both parents had went to jail both was sentence to life without parole. Lauren then, had gotten adopted by another family although she was scared of them she grew close to them, they

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