A 13-year-old girl who was kept captive for three months by a man who had murdered her parents declared that he “will never have any power over me” as she urged a court to keep him “locked up for ever”. Jayme Closs told a judge that Jake Patterson, who had kept her imprisoned beneath his bed in a remote cabin in the woods, could not destroy her freedom to enjoy her life. In a statement read out by her lawyer after Patterson was sentenced to life without parole, Miss Closs said that she now had “some power over him, because I get to tell the judge what I think should happen to him”. She added: “He stole my parents from me. He stole almost everything…

Source: The Times May 24, 2019 23:15 UTC