ARREST MADE: Abigail Hernandez, 15, Missing/Returned Safe - New Hampshire

[HairOfTheDog]

Abigail Hernandez Speaks Out


Then and now

On Friday, ABC's ²⁰⁄₂₀ will air an interview with Abigail, now 19.

Abigail was held captive in a storage container in New Hampshire by a violent predator who abducted her on her way home for school when she was 15.

She was abducted by Nathaniel Kibby, 39, as she walked home from school in Conway, New Hampshire, in October 2013. Abigail says Kibby had offered her a ride home and she accepted because her feet were blistered from the boots she was wearing.

For nine months, he held her captive in a shipping container stashed on his rural property. Kibby forced her to wear a shock collar which struck her if she screamed and he raped her repeatedly.

She revealed that Kibby, who is now likely to spend the rest of his life in prison, would not tell her his name and instead instructed her to all him 'master'.   However, Abby says she knew his name because she saw it inside one of his cookbooks. 

After her release, it took Abby a week before she revealed to her family and law enforcement agencies who he was because she was so afraid of him.

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