Thank you.
As I said in my statement, many other victims, I'm sure, other than ourselves, have developed many different mental health issues. For myself personally, I have complex post-traumatic stress disorder, so when Marcia called me to tell me, it really did feel like I was taken back to that moment in time, and I emotionally felt what I had felt when it was initially happening.
That is what happens when you have a flashback. Essentially, it was like being 15 or 16 years old again and hearing about the moment when she was taken from us, feeling how we felt when we were told she had been found. It really takes you back to that and it pulls out all of those emotions that you try to suppress. It happens every single time, every time his name is brought up in the media. This is really the experience for most of us. It's a retraumatization; it brings us right back to that same moment, and we experience the feelings all over again.