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A teenage girl fled her home last month after what she said was years of abuse. Prosecutors called what had happened to her “beyond heinous.”
By Sarah Maslin Nir
It was dark out when the barefoot teenage girl barreled through the door of Susan Lacey’s cottage in Blackwood, N.J., and released a torrent of words.
She said she had been locked in a dog crate for a year and handcuffed to a toilet and not allowed to eat and didn’t go to school but she did get to take the dogs outside and her stepfather sometimes touched her but she got to listen to music and ate from a bucket but her little sister didn’t have to and she was really, truly Freddie Mercury, from Queen. She giggled.
