10 Disturbing Details Surrounding Lauren Kavanaugh, “The Girl In The Closet”

6 /10 Living In Suffering

It was then when she was forced to live in the closet of their mobile home, four feet wide by nine feet long.

She was only given a pillow to sleep on the floor and did not receive a blanket except on days in which she had been ‘good,’ which often meant that she hadn’t screamed while she was being raped by pedophiles or by her parents.

She tried to eat her feces, the carpet, and plastic pieces of garbage because they didn’t feed her.

At one point, her mother served her a plate of mac and cheese and forced her to chew but forbade her to swallow any of the food. She looked like a three-year-old when she was already eight.

5 /10 He Couldn't Take It Anymore

This kept going on for six years until the day Kenneth showed a neighbor the ‘little secret’ they kept in their mobile home.

According to this neighbor Jeanie Rivers, “he couldn’t take it anymore.” She was rescued by the police that same day, just as her organs began to shut down due to malnutrition.

She couldn’t recognize basic objects such as the Sun and had to be fed using a method designed for Holocaust survivors, as she was so weak that she could not hear otherwise.

4 /10 Unrepentant Mother

To this day, Lauren’s mother is unrepentant.

In 2002, for an interview, Barbara Atkinson (who has by now been sentenced to life alongside Kenneth Atkinson) laconically said to the interviewer about Lauren: “I hope she’s happy. I hope she’s able to trust. I hope she’s able to cope with everything emotionally. It’s a long road.”

To this day, she never apologized or said that she was sorry for nearly killing her daughter through years of abuse. If asked, she blames many reasons for her actions and calls her daughter ‘it.’

3 /10 The Sequels

Sadly, the pain of all the abuse she received stayed with Lauren. Because of the abuse received throughout the most formative years of her life, Lauren Kavanaugh kept experiencing learning difficulties, stunning growth, and, especially, severe psychological sequels.

She has had troubles with drugs and alcohol addiction and requires psychological counseling to this day.

She has attempted suicide over thirty times, and some of her life experiences after being ‘saved’ have made her situation worse.

2 /10 Another Rape

Perhaps the worst of these took place in August 2005, four years after she was rescued from her original abusers.

After keeping her under close watch to prevent her from being harmed or triggering flashbacks, her mother, Sabrina Kavanaugh, allowed her to go to a slumber party at a niece’s house.

Lauren was raped once again by the husband of Sabrina’s niece, Jesse Bass, who received thirteen years in prison for the rape and possession of child pornography.

After this, Lauren could barely manage, psychologically, to keep herself alive and functioning.

1 /10 Lauren, Today

Lauren Kavanaugh has recently made the headlines for maintaining a sexual relationship with a fourteen-year-old girl, which in the state of Texas amounts to statutory rape and could bring her over twenty years in prison.

The relationship was, however, according to her defendant, ‘as consensual as could be, and although still illegal and immoral, “I think it’s utterly inhumane to have her in jail right now,” her defendant stated in court.

He added that she didn’t have the socialization experiences necessary to understand age-appropriate relationships. Lauren, to this day, still awaits a sentence for those charges.