Jayme Closs vowed to never let her kidnapper take her freedom or her spirit from her in a powerful statement read at the sentencing hearing of Jake Patterson, the 21-year-old Wisconsin man who pleaded guilty to abducting 13-year-old Closs, killing her parents and then holding her captive until she escaped
"I was smarter," Closs said through a statement read in court on her behalf Friday."I watched his routine and I took back my freedom. I will always have my freedom and he will not. Jake Patterson can never take my courage. He thought he could control me, but he couldn’t."
"I loved my mom and dad very much... he took them away from me forever," Closs' statement read."I felt safe in my home and I loved my room and all of my belongings. He took all of that, too. I don't want to even see my home or my stuff because of the memory of that night. My parents and my home were the most important things in my life."
"My sister and brother-in-law were such loving and giving and beautiful people," Allard said at Friday's sentencing."It was senseless."
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