What Is Elizabeth's Kidnapping

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Unlike most victims of kidnapping, Elizabeth’s kidnapper didn’t want to kill her on sight. Her daily life between her nine months of captivity were started by a rapping. Next thing on the list then usually was a preaching of Brian’s belief of his purpose with Elizabeth and God (being “his prophet.”) Then, this was followed by him expressing how “lucky” she was to be the one girl to be chosen for this new life.
Starting the first day, she felt like her soul was crushed when Brian David had stripped her of her virginity with the rapping. She never got used to this, but she did get used to his lectures of being “the lucky one” and how he was “given this task by god.” Although she may have been naive at her age, she never gave into these lies.

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