‘Girl in Closet' Says She's Tried ‘to Commit Suicide Over 30 Times'

Every day, Lauren Kavanaugh, who became known as "the girl in the closet," relives the torture and abuse she lived through from ages 2 to 8, she said in an appearance on Dr. Phil. It has been 15 years since Kavanaugh was rescued from the filthy 4-by-9 closet in her family's mobile home in Hutchins. When police found her she weighed 25.6 pounds and had been starved, tortured and repeatedly sexually abused.   Continue reading...

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