SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – A California woman who was drugged along with her boyfriend and then dragged from their home described the “hell that we have survived” in emotional testimony before her abductor was sentenced to 40 years in prison in a crime so elaborate and bizarre that police initially dismissed it as a hoax.
“You treated me like an object, a toy, an animal,” Denise Huskins told her kidnapper, Matthew Muller, a disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney who pleaded guilty in September.
Huskins described the two days of physical and psychological torture she endured after Muller snatched her from her and her boyfriend’s San Francisco Bay Area home two years ago.
“I still have nightmares every night,” she said Thursday, fighting back tears. “Sleep is not rest for me. It is a trigger.”
Her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, who was bound and drugged during the kidnapping, said he “cannot and will not ever be the same.”