current connection 1/21/13

thought you might want to see the actual video

“My life was horrible, but I didn’t realize it until many years later.” Can you imagine having a terrible life, and not even knowing it? Katie Beers lived that life until she was 10.  “I was abused by my mother, godmother, and her husband.”  These were just everyday things to her.  While I, myself have never been abused by anyone close to me, I have had friends that have gone through emotional and physical abuse from parents and even in their relationships.  The psychological damage is pretty clear to everyone, especially if, like me, you gravitate to people in need.  “The abuse by my family gave me the strength to withstand.” I can also vouch for the fact that people who have been through these situations are some of the strongest people I have ever met, because they don’t have another choice.  They are forced to be survivors, and this is the best way to become one, though the emotional turmoil often makes these people hard to reach.  The will to survive, like in Katie Beers, is easy enough to see, but the source of this strength is often from darker past then imaginable.  

Not only was Katie Beers abused as a child, but she also was abducted. She was held in a “dungeon” built specifically for her by a man that she knew.  This reminds me of the movie “The Lovely Bones.” Is which, a man builds an underground playhouse so he could lure a young girl into it alone; he then sexually abused and killed her. I remember thinking that no real girl would be stupid enough not to sense the danger that was practically oozing from the man on the screens pores.  It then occurred to me that the “bad guy” isn’t always obvious.  In fact, he usually looks harmless.  In this story, the man that abducted Katie Beers tried to lure her into his dungeon with toys and things, and this is also a lot like what happened in The Lovely Bones.  I can understand how a child can be lured by little things like this, especially one that doesn’t receive love from their family.  I have seen this in children also. Like, if a child doesn’t get sweets often, it is pretty easy to get them to do what you want using a candy bar.  So, the “Bad Guy” in stories may be easy to pick out, but in real life they are suave and manipulative enough to disguise themselves.