How To Write An Essay About Jaycee Dugard's Kidnapping

Cyntoia Brown’s story is another sad example of male privilege and the valuing of a man’s life over a woman’s. Brown had a hard life growing up; she suffered from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and grew up in a very abuse home. When she was a teenager she ran away from home, which ultimately led to her entering a life of prostitution. After leaving home, she met a 24-year-old man named “Cut Throat” who abused her and forced into prostitution. When she was 16 her pimp sold her to a 43-year-old man who picked her up from a Sonic parking lot and brought her back to his house. Upon entering the house, Brown noticed a gun cabinet in the man’s room. She attempted to fight off the predator’s advances, but ultimately feared for her life and pulled out a gun and shot and killed the rapist. Cyntoia was arrested and charged with first-degree murder for killing the child molester who was attempting to rape her. The prosecution stated that Cyntoia did not kill him out of self-defense, but rather as an attempt to rob him since she took his wallet after shooting him. Brown has currently been in jail for over ten years and will not be given the possibility of parole until she is 69 years old. After the initial trial people were unhappy with the sentencing which led Tennessee to change their laws and ban mandatory life sentences for juveniles without parole. Recently, Brown’s case has been brought back into the spotlight due to many A-list celebrities tweeting about the incredible injustice.

Rita Price, writer for The Columbus Dispatch, recounts a horrific story about siblings who suffered numerous accounts of abuse. After being beaten with baseball bats, burned with irons, starved, and forced to drink their own urine, the Ferguson children were finally able to come forward and testify against their adoptive parents in order to send them to prison. The children did not believe they had a voice, and the abuse went unnoticed for years. The Ferguson children, along with many others in similar situations, do not feel they have anyone to turn to. After going through foster care systems and the adoption process, the children had already experienced large amounts of change and stress, only to be left with negligent parents. In

Christine Jessop was a nine year old girl who after bring dropped off by the school bus at her home in Queensville decided to ride her bike to the park nearby to meet with her friends. After stopping to buy some gum at the local store she was last seen walking her bike up her driveway by her friend Kim Warren. She did not keep her appointment with her friend at the park, and would never be seen alive again (Anderson & Anderson, 2009). This small town instantly became involved in the search for the missing girl, but with very little evidence to go on time passed, and hope began to diminish for the safe return home of Jessop. On New Year’s Eve 1984, eighty-nine days after Jessop went missing, her body was found badly decomposed in a bush by Fred Patterson fifty-five kilometers from Queensville. An autopsy would later revival that she was raped and mutilated (Anderson & Anderson, 2009). The police still did not have a suspect in the case nor did they have any leads, but now that her body was found the police and the small town were the topic of media, increasing pressure

What Happened to Cass McBride by Gail Giles is the thrilling mystery of a young woman who has been captured, kept in a box underground and tortured by someone she barely knows. The book follows the point of view of Cass, Her abductor Kyle, and a detective trying to find her. The book’s main topics were bullying, fear, abuse, and cruelty. I chose to focus on hope. This book convinced me that there can be hope even in the darkest times; hope can come from helping yourself.

Michelle knight is a 34 year old Caucasian women who was born April 1981, later on moving to Cleveland Ohio where she was raised (Knight, 2015). Growing up she recalls not having a good relationship with her mother, she remembers “a chaotic childhood marked by neglect and abuse” (Connors, 2014). In school she was bullied and eventually sexually assaulted “By a group of males “resulting in her dropping out of school and later finding out her had become pregnant as a result of the assault (DURANTE, ROBSON & WARREN, 2013). Soon after she gave birth to a baby boy she named joey, when joey was around two years old he was taken to the hospital and treated for a broken leg, Michelle stated that her mother’s boyfriend purposely did it while under the influence of drugs. (Anderson, 2013).Child protective services was called and joey was temporarily taken out of Michelle’s custody until further notice (Anderson, 2013).

The first review talks about how this book relates to segregation in the 60s and 70s and how the Jim Crow laws affected the young girl. This book is also unique because the young girl travels back and forth from the south and the north and is able to experience the difference of being African American in the south vs. the north. The next review explains how this story shows the strength of the young girl to embrace her differences such as in El Deafo. The story tells the journey of the young girl to find her passion and voice through writing. The story also talks about the young girls struggle with reading and how she overcame her reading struggle and persisted on to becoming a great

She never realized sneaking out to a back-to-school party would change her life. This lady approached her in a Hardees parking lot, telling her she would help to find her way back home but instead was taken to the sex trafficking ring. She was 13. After a long search, her mother finally found her daughter online the Escorts service page of Backpage, a website used to sell children for sexual acts. Her mother was able to buy her daughter but she was not the same girl. She was addicted to drugs and had obviously been abused. She was so addicted that she would run away to get the drugs. She was stabbed, burned, her head was shaved, and she was beaten. The lady who took her was prosecuted and charged for her part in the crime. However the website

Jerilyn, a teenager within the ABC Primetime Video The Lost Children Behind Bars committed a variety of different minor crimes throughout her years ranging from trespassing, disorderly conduct, marijuana use, and habitual truancy (Emsnyc12, 2012). Along with these minor crimes, Jerilyn had also committed a very serious criminal offense of child molestation against her nephew, which led to her being put into the Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections Facility (Emsnyc12, 2012). With that being said, her criminal behavior can very much be attributed to substantial events that occurred within her life at a very young age. At six years old, Jerilyn was molested by her mother’s boyfriend and this lasted for an entire month. (Emsnyc12, 2012). Soon after this molestation occurred, various changes within Jerilyn’s life began to emerge, as one may suspect. She soon began to turn to crime as a way to deal with this terrible life event and began smoking marijuana, using alcohol, and skipping school as well as not coming home for long periods of time (Emsnyc12, 2012). Jerilyn being molested by her mother’s boyfriends had a profound impact on her life and can very much be a leading factor in her committing her own act of child molestation on her nephew, who was six at the time (Emsnyc12, 2012). From a very young age, after the molestation occurred, Jerilyn was emerged into a life of crime, with the final act of child molestation landing her in the Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections

Being kidnapped in my sleep by a stranger is my greatest fear. Deep sleeping unfortunately goes together really well with being kidnapped. Without my knowledge I could be picked up by someone while I sleep. Unfortunately, my dad has met some not so good people and has not made the greatest choices in life. At any time someone who my dad doesn’t get along with very well could come in at and grab me because I am a really deep sleeper. They could use me or one of my brothers to get whatever they want to get revenge on my dad. I remember it like yesterday, my dad sat me down and said I have something to say. I have made some poor choices in my life when I first started my business. When I was a little older about seven or eight, I finally got

In these articles I will be talking about how children’s being kidnapped usually from their parents or just being alone in the street. I will also be discussing how we can make our community better by finding ways to prevent these events. I will be talking about how a three year old was ducked taped in a closet, three children were kidnapped and put in a van, and a teacher was raped by a sex offender. In this next paragraph I will talk about how a three year old was ducked taped in a closet.

The high point in my grandmother’s life besides her kids being born, was finding her faith and Jesus. Around the age of 50, her neighbor in the Bronx had been insisting her to visit her local church. While she had gone to church when she was younger, it was not a priority. When Fela said yes, she described it was the best decision of her life and she has not looked back. To her, the Lord has brought her peace and allowed her to meet people which she considers part of her family. With the help of her new-found brothers and sisters in Christ, she learned to read and write at a basic level. While my grandmother cannot write a book, she can handle the basic task like sending her kids birthday cards.

A news station, Media Milwaukee, interviewed a sex trafficking survivor to shine light on what many other sex trafficking victims experience. She lived a relatively normal childhood living with her mom, attending private schools, church activities, and enjoyed playing her violin. At age 13, she was raped by her bus driver and didn’t understand the situation so she never told anyone about what she had gone through. Sadly, without being able to process the wrongdoing she endured she began to run away from home. It

In the town of South Lake Tahoe, where it’s just like any other town everyone knows everyone and it’s a safe place for children to grow up. Crime ratings were close to zero in this town and the people of South Lake Tahoe had normal everyday lives just like anybody else. The town’s “child-friendly” environment, the Dugard family called this place home (Hawkins) and a place they thought was safe. However, on June 10, 1991, a terrible nightmare exploded into reality for their family and especially for eleven year-old Jaycee Dugard. One day just like any other day where Jaycee got ready for school, she started walking towards the bus stop, where two people tased her and Jaycee touched the very last thing

Every day people are abducted from homes, and public places and some are never seen again. 800,000 kids get kidnapped or go missing each year. One of the most well-known kidnaping stories originates in South Carolina. Todd Kohlhepp kidnapped Kala Brown on August 31st, 2016. He killed her boyfriend in front of her and then held her captive chained in a metal storage container for 65 days until she was rescued by local authorities. Anyone can be kidnapped not just children (“UPDATE: Sheriff”).

Most of the time when you hear the word “story” you automatically think of happy endings. Briar’s story is everything but happy.When Briar was a child she was kidnapped, her story isn’t about her abduction, it is about how it has shaped her environment. In this this story it targets her beliefs. When she was 5, a man named Japedo took her and one other girl named Jessie. Briar and Jessie became best friends. One day someone found the bunker and Briar was put back into life with her mom, dad, and a little brother Maddox, that she never knew of. Since Briar was 17 when she was found she still needed an education so she was put into a small school for kids who needed special classes. Briar attended a school with 18 other kids at Worthermont where she ran into new challenges she had to face. Here is the story in her perspective as a captive.