Woman Adopted From China Says She Was Held in Home Dungeon, Beaten, Enslaved by Adoptive Parents for 14 Years

Held in a makeshift-basement dungeon, whipped, chained, enslaved—this may sound like something that couldn’t happen in America, let alone in a small, picturesque New England town.
But that was the nightmarish childhood endured by a woman, now 19, brought here from China when she was just a baby, according to a lawsuit recently filed in New Hampshire.
After years of attempts to break free by peeling back drywall or breaking a window, only to be returned to her home by local police, Olivia Atkocaitis, who fled through cold winter woods in just sandals, finally won her freedom in September of 2018 from her home in New Boston, New Hampshire….

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