The teenager’s voice cracked as she stood before a
Georgia courtroom and faced the man who had kept her in captivity for
more than a year, allegedly forcing her to have sex with him and holding
her in a dog cage for so long that she developed back problems.
The psychological damage that Michael Wysolovski had inflicted on her when she was 16 and 17, she told the court, was “beyond imagination” and
had permanently broken her spirit. After meeting her in an online forum
for people with anorexia, the man, who was almost twice her age, had manipulated her
and taken advantage of her mental illness, leading her to believe that
her life would be ruined if she ever gained weight, she said. Holding
tight to a stuffed animal and reading from a prepared statement, she
recounted how he had put her through “water torture” that left her with a
debilitating fear of showers and rainwater. Since being rescued by
police in June 2017, she added, she had tried to commit suicide three times.
“I severely mutilated myself, hoping that I would become unlovable so no one would hurt me again as Michael Wysolovski did,” she told the courtroom at his plea hearing last week. “I am permanently disfigured.”.........https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/02/teen-girl-was-coerced-into-sex-held-dog-cage-her-captor-will-serve-no-prison-time/?utm_source=reddit.com&utm_term=.0010ed1da095
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