The Girl Who Lived tells the story of Kara Robinson: abducted in broad daylight from a friend’s front yard, the 15-year-old is held captive and sexually assaulted for 18 harrowing hours. When she bravely engineers her own escape and leads authorities to her assailant’s apartment, they uncover a series of crimes far darker and more deadly than anyone ever imagined.
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Kara Robinson decided not to go to counseling after she was kidnapped, and her family explains why they didn’t make her. Instead, she found other ways to deal with her trauma.
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Kara Robinson says she actually felt “weaker” when people looked at her “with pity,” and explains why she wanted to become someone who could empower others.
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Kara Robinson initially kept it quiet that she was a kidnapping victim as she trained in the police academy — until her own story was shared during a class she was in.
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Those who knew Kara Robinson describe how she changed after she was kidnapped, as Kara explains in her own words how she tried to cope with the traumatic event.
Those who knew Kara Robinson describe how she changed after she was kidnapped, as Kara explains in her own words how she tried to cope with the traumatic event.
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Elizabeth Smart and Kara Robinson spoke exclusively to Oxygen.com about their unique friendship as survivors. They worked together to give a comprehensive account of Kara’s harrowing escape from a kidnapper authorities later learned was an evasive serial killer. The two-hour special “Escaping Captivity: The Kara Robinson Story” premieres on Sunday, September 26 at 7/6 central on Oxygen.
Escaping Captivity: The Kara Robinson Story reveals a first-hand account of the strength, steely resolve and quick thinking it took for a 15-year-old girl to survive abduction, restraint, assault and almost certain death.
