OTTAWA — After a year in captivity, Amanda Lindhout begged her mother during a frantic phone call to quickly come up with a hefty ransom because her Somalian abductors had started to torture her. In a recording of the September 2009 call played in court Wednesday, Lindhout told her mother, Lorinda Stewart, that she had been beaten while her legs and hands were tied. “You have to pay the money now. Where is the money?” a panicked Lindhout says. We are selling everything we can.”By this point, Lindhout and Brennan’s families had managed to scrape together US$434,000 by selling vehicles, farm machinery and property.

Source: National Post October 11, 2017 17:58 UTC