OTTAWA — A tearful Amanda Lindhout says she has crippling flashbacks and sometimes wakes up screaming due to her kidnapping ordeal in Somalia. At a sentencing hearing Wednesday for hostage-taker Ali Omar Ader, Lindhout said the sexual assault, beatings and emotional trauma she suffered in captivity filled her with pain and self-loathing. “I was a young woman wanting to rebuild my life,” Lindhout told a hushed courtroom. Ali Omar Ader has been found guilty in the 2008 kidnapping of Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout in Somalia. Ader read a statement in which he expressed remorse, saying he was human and therefore flawed.

Source: thestar March 28, 2018 16:03 UTC