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'Girl in the Closet' was living in hotel with 14-year-old sex
assault victim
DIR By: Ghosttruck
Date: January 30, 2019, 10:57 am
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> The woman known as “The Girl in the Closet” who was recently
arrested for the sexual assault of a child had been living in a
hotel room with that 14-year-old girl, court documents reveal.
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> The newly released arrest warrant affidavit for 25-year-old
Lauren Kavanaugh details how she met her alleged victim and how
police were tipped off to the crime.
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> As a child, Kavanagh endured years of physical and sexual
abuse by her family in the late 1990s through 2001 and was kept
in a closet inside the family trailer. She was finally freed at
the age of 8 and weighed about 25 pounds when she was located.
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> She was arrested in December because police said she sexually
assaulted a 14-year-old girl over a span of two months.
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> The affidavit for Kavanaugh’s arrest states Facebook forwarded
a conversation between her and the teen to the National Center
for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Crimes
Against Children Task Force.
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> In the message, the teen told Kavanaugh she wanted to return
home to their hotel room for cuddles. The message was sexual in
nature and included other things Kavanaugh said she wanted to do
to the girl in the shower.
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> “My teacher is the same age as you,” the girl said, also
referring to Kavanaugh as her girlfriend.
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> After receiving the tip, Lewisville police called the girl’s
mother and asked to interview her at the Children’s Advocacy
Center for Denton County. There she admitted to the relationship
and said she initially met Kavanaugh through her Facebook fan
page called The Lauren Kavanaugh Story.
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> The two communicated on Facebook and later via text messages.
The communication stopped for a year because Kavanaugh moved
away, but it resumed when she returned to Texas over the summer.
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> The affidavit states Kavanaugh contacted the girl and ended up
moving in with her and her mom at the Budget Suites of American
in Lewisville.
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> When police questioned Kavanaugh about her relationship with
the girl, she at first claimed they were just friends. She
admitted to the crime and got upset after investigators brought
up the sexually explicit Facebook messages.
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> “If you’re going to arrest me, arrest me!” Kavanaugh said,
according to the document.
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> She was then placed in handcuffs and escorted to the
Lewisville jail.
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> John Browning is an attorney who studies social media and the
law. He says Facebook and other social networking companies have
gotten more proactive in identifying and reporting behavior and
removed more than 8 million child exploitation posts last year.
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> “I think they're to be applauded for what they are doing and
the steps that they're taking,” he said. “They've been very
vigilant about that as a means of just being good, responsible
corporate citizens.”
>
> Browning says Facebook is continuing to invest in artificial
intelligence, which could make the company even more vigilant in
reporting this behavior.
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> “Facebook will be the first one to tell you that while they
value their user privacy and they guard it, sometimes very
zealously, there are certain things that sometimes outweigh even
that,” he said.
>
> Kavanaugh is still being held in the Denton County jail on a
$10,000 bond. Her Facebook fan page has since been deleted.
>
> Her parents are also in prison serving a life sentence for the
abuse she endured.
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Re: 'Girl in the Closet' was living in hotel with 14-year-old
sex assault victim
DIR By: FellOffThePorch
Date: January 30, 2019, 11:16 am
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I wonder if this girl is the only one? Lauren is 25... that's a
lot of time to go without.
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Re: 'Girl in the Closet' was living in hotel with 14-year-old
sex assault victim
DIR By: Momzilla
Date: January 30, 2019, 11:48 am
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Holy shit I remember her case so we’ll- there was a big write up
on it that I read plus I think she did Oprah a few years ago.
Her own story is so freaking tragic it’s hard to imagine she’d
grow up to be ‘normal’ but this is just horrible! The abused
became the abuser!
ETA: here’s a great in depth, yet thoroughly disturbing, write
up of Lauren’s own unthinkable abuse if anyone is interested.
She was rescued from her life of abuse & neglect at age 8
weighing 25lbs, the average weight for a 1yo!
HTML http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/2013_October/lauren/#.XFHjQaROnDs
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Re: 'Girl in the Closet' was living in hotel with 14-year-old
sex assault victim
DIR By: KatO9Tails
Date: January 30, 2019, 1:42 pm
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after what had happened to her there was no way she could grow
up normal and probably had arrested development emotionally at
around the same age as the girl she was found with. It said at
one point she was living with the girl and her mother, mom
should have been able to see something same with any tip off
that didn't happen. She does need to be somewhere in a facility
I don't think prison but nonleavable for the rest of her days
for her safety as well as others. Not trying to give her any
pass but don't think she was out molesting people before she gt
involved in this: she was seriously physically messed up
genitally [mutilated] as well as emotionally messed up the
actual sexual urges would be low just the psychological ones
with sex if trusted I would think
#Post#: 841--------------------------------------------------
Re: 'Girl in the Closet' was living in hotel with 14-year-old
sex assault victim
DIR By: Gus
Date: January 30, 2019, 9:15 pm
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Without the proper support to break the cycle of abuse it will
continue . We have seen it time and again .
#Post#: 1019--------------------------------------------------
Re: 'Girl in the Closet' was living in hotel with 14-year-old
sex assault victim
DIR By: CauseMomSaysSo
Date: February 1, 2019, 8:53 am
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This girl/woman truly slipped through the cracks. When the
write-up that was linked to before was done, Lauren was 20, and
the therapists she was working with still said she was never
going to be normal and that she had not developed and would
never develop empathy, morals, proper interactions, etc. towards
others. This woman should have been cared for in a long-term
psychiatric facility, not allowed to go flitting about the
country moving into motels with 14 year old girls. Sounds like
her aunt pushed her to move out and be "normal". What a shame.
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