Elizabeth Smart's Recovery is Amazing -- but so is this!

[muggs]

Wow, truly amazing that someone could survive that and come out as strong and unsacred as she seems to be. I hope and pray the same thing for Elizabeth Smart.

[muggs]

Won't it be encouraging to the Smart family, to read how this Gattas young woman survived her terrible ordeal?

Perhaps someone could bring this to the attention of the parents of Elizabeth Smart. Just a thought.

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[armymarinemom]

This guy is out of prison?
I really hate to hear that. We lived in Memphis when that happened and it gave me the creeps to know that I sat in a church for ceremonies with someone being held captive over my head. Our Nursing School had ceremonies in that church and I attended a couple during her captivity.

[muggs]

That would give me a creepy feeling too.

I'm surprised I never heard of this case until today.

[B4Ranch]

Amamzing story!!

[DouglasKC]

What a great story of courage.

[Damocles]

Wow! What a story!

Ernest Stubblefield

The first public appearance Leslie Gattas made following the end of her 119-day ordeal was to attend mass at St. Louis Catholic Church.

Pics Found Here

[PLMerite]

My thoughts exactly. Hopefully he's the "former" executive minister as a result of his stupidity.

Her father should dust him up a bit just to keep his mind focused.

[Manic_Episode]

Wow. What a story.
They should never have released the sick PoS.

[Minutemen]

Thank god the child is alive. But you gotta wonder about that sniveling fruitcake of a "father" of hers. That imbecile(dad?) is the guy that hired all those degenerates to do work around his house.
I'm betting it turns out that "dad" might have had some hanky panky goin on with his degenerate buddies, and they took his daughter and threatened him with blackmail.
How do you like my conspiracy theory?

[packrat35]

Being from Memphis, I remember this case. It was the first thing I thought of when I heard the Smart girl had been found alive.

[demnomo]

How do you like my conspiracy theory?

I think it sucks.

That said, I do think that parents who hire "homeless" people off the streets to do work on their homes for what ever reason, be it charitable or just plain cheapness, are playing with fire. The same could be said for parents who hold swing parties while their children are asleep in bed. That sort of behavior doesn't necessarily mean that the parents purposely contrived or arranged for their children to become the victims of evil, regardless of their naivete and/or thoughtless stupidity.

Reread the story that started this thread. Sometimes, children are stalked, preyed upon and taken by perverts. Many of those children do not survive. Elizabeth Smart and Leslie Gatto are the lucky ones. There is no doubt in my mind that the Smart family did not want this horrific thing to happen to their daughter.

[i_dont_chat]

I think you are "really stretching" to come up with such a theory.

There is nothing to EVEN suggest what you have presented.

No facts, nothing to back up your theory -- only your overly active imagination.

It is a sad commentary that you'd rather think the worse about the victim's family, even if you must make up stories.

I'm glad I'm not you.

[Nov3]

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[BunnySlippers]

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[FITZ]

Please help me. My name is Leslie Gattas. Call the police and my father George A. Gattas. I am in the attic with the man who kidnapped me. This is no joke. Show the police this note. They will understand. I put this note on your desk when he wasn't looking. Please, whoever you are, don't leave me here . . . He might be armed.

I hope my own daughter or sons would be more like this girl and try to escape every opportunity she had rather than the Smart girl who was walking around in plain sight and lying to police about her identity.

[Freedom2specul8]

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