Girl in the Closet

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Girl in the Closet is a 2023 American true crime drama television film directed by Jaira Thomas and written by Sa'Rah Jones and Courtney Miller. The film based on the true story of Beatrice Weston who was locked in a basement for ten years after her mother suffered a brain aneurysm in 2001 and endured physical and sexual abuse by her aunt Linda Weston and her aunts boyfriend. Although the story is wrongly portrayed as that of Lauren Kavanaugh; the real story is based out of Philadelphia, most famously known as “The Tacony Dungeon" case or “Philadelphia basement kidnapping” case. Victims such as Tamara Breeden were beaten with various objects, including bats and pistol butts. They were starved, drugged, and forced into prostitution and to live in dark, isolated, and filthy conditions. Weston also targeted mentally disabled and vulnerable people, luring them with promises of a new home. Weston stole their disability checks, and moved them to different locations across several states to evade...

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