Ingrid Betancourt freed after held hostage for 6 years in Columbia
If you haven’t been following the story, read the article from the New York Times. Incredible:
An Excerpt from the article “Betancourt, in France, Details Her Captivity” by STEVEN ERLANGER and ALAN COWELL:
…her captors had chained her day and night for the first three years, but that she was sustained by her Roman Catholic faith and thoughts of her family. “I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years,” she said. “I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.”
Asked if she had been tortured, she said, “Yes, yes,” and said her captors had fallen into “diabolical behavior,” adding: “It was so monstrous I think they themselves were disgusted.” She called her rescue “a miracle of the Virgin Mary” and said: “You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.” She had made herself a wooden rosary in the jungle, she said.
