2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
Although terrified, Rosalyn McGinnis knew she had to escape the clutches of her stepfather, who kidnapped her when she was 12 years old. The American woman told The Dr. Oz Show that her stepfather Henri Piette held her captive for 19 years, sexually abusing her and subjecting her to physical and psychological punishment. The woman had 9 children with him and told Doctor Oz that he threatened to kill the children if she left him.
"They didn't know," she said on the children's program. "I hid the truth from them until I escaped from Mexico." McGinnis managed to escape in 2016 after almost 20 years living a nightmare. The woman added that Piette "treated them like animals" and threatened to kill the children. She had to defend them on several occasions from beatings that he gave them. "Any kind of abuse imaginable, he did it to me," he revealed.
The 63-year-old man, who was arrested in 2018, was found guilty of the kidnapping of his stepdaughter in 1997 in Poteau, Oklahoma. Back then he cheated on her, telling the teenager to go with him to go find her mother and never let her go again. McGinnis gave birth to the first of her nine children when she was just 15 years old.
According to reports from the authorities, Piette moved with McGinnis and her children multiple times, to different cities in the United States and Mexico, hiding from the police. The woman became friends in Mexico with a couple who met her in a market, and when they saw her with Piette and the children, they realized that something was wrong. The couple offered help to McGinnis, who managed to escape in 2016 with her children one day that the man had gotten drunk, fleeing in a taxi to Oaxaca. There she called the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, denouncing Piette and asking for help. "I knew that if I didn't escape I would go crazy and end up dying and leaving my children with that man," she told PEOPLE McGinnis after being rescued.
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