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[Music] foreign [Music] it's a hard thing to explain because I'd never been around guns you only seen bad
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guys in the movies with stockings on you know so I knew it wasn't good when it was my turn to get on the van he
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stopped me he held a shotgun to my stomach I said I was doing what you said [Music]
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and I had to stand there with this gun in my gut until the one van drove away and they backed the second van up
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it felt like forever I thought he was going to shoot me I actually did [Music] foreign
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[Music] I just remember looking up at that hole I wanted to stay close I wanted to be
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like right there because that was the way out [Music] [Applause] all right [Music]
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[Music] [Music] [Music] the kidnappers lawyers appealed the finding of bodily harm
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and the Appellate Court overturned it and while acknowledging the horrific nature of the crime stated that the
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injuries suffered did not rise to the level of bodily harm under the law [Music]
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it just seems like every three years I go and I go three times every time it's excruciating and the aftermath is never
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good [Music] hello my name is Jody Medrano I was Jody Heffington foreign to listen to him talk about his poor
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childhood I don't know if I want to laugh cry cuss him or what because uh where did my childhood go
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like I told him Mr Woods you're not a kidnapper you're a thief you're a thief of lives not just the
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kids that were in the bus but they stoled our family's lives and what we all had
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before that [Music] how that day affected me has affected me every day in some way or another
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[Music] I think it made me not a good daughter I'm not a good sister I'm not a good aunt and especially not a
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good mother and probably not a a good friend [Music] I try to be those things but it seems like it um
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[Music] it just took something from me that I can't ever get back and I can't tear it down
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no matter how hard I try and no matter what I do [Music] oh