Canadian Says Somalia Kidnapping Inflicted Emotional Scars
Canadian Says Somalia Kidnapping Inflicted Emotional Scars
Former Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout says she has crippling flashbacks and sometimes wakes up screaming due to her kidnapping ordeal in Somalia.
At a sentencing hearing Wednesday for hostage-taker Ali Omar Ader, a tearful Lindhout said the sexual assault, beatings and emotional trauma she suffered in captivity filled her with pain and self-loathing.
Lindhout and Australian photographer Nigel Brennan were seized near Mogadishu in August 2008. Both were released in November 2009 in exchange for a ransom payment. Her story was published in the best-selling book “A House in the Sky.”
Ader, a 40-year-old Somalian national, faces up to life in prison after being convicted of hostage-taking late last year.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Smith ruled that Ader was a “willing participant” in the kidnapping
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