On June 11, 2001 police entered the mobile home of Barbie and Ken Atkinson after Ken showed a neighbor that they had been keeping their 8 year old daughter, Lauren Kavanaugh, in a 4x9 closet for 5 years. When police saw Lauren, she was severely malnourished, only weighing 25.6 pounds, the size of a toddler, with matted, lice-filled hair and obvious signs of severe abuse. It was a shock that she even survived, but she lives with the constant trauma of the abuse, and her case is one of the most severe of child-abuse ever seen.
 
 
OG Release Date: 04/25/2020
<a href="http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/2013_October/lauren/#.XqO17vaSlPZ">The Dallas Morning News</a>&nbsp;
 
<a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2018/12/20/my-life-hasn-t-ever-been-normal-the-story-of-girl-in-the-closet-lauren-kavanaugh-in-brief/">The Dallas Morning News&nbsp;</a>
 
<a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2709088/horror-ordeal-of-girl-raped-tortured-live-in-filthy-cupboard-for-five-years-from-age-of-three/">The Sun U.K.</a> (2017, January 26).&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/closet-girls-stepdad-gets-maximum/">CBS News </a>(2002, December 13).&nbsp;
<a href=" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2019/03/01/girl-in-the-closet-lauren-kavanaugh-indicted-after-admitting-she-sexually-assaulted-a-teenage-girl/">Dallas News </a>&nbsp;(2019, February 28).&nbsp;
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