In a statement from Closs and read by her attorney, Chris Gramstrup, she vowed never to let Patterson control her life.
She said Patterson took away her home and her parents — which she called "the most important things in my life" — and asked a judge to sentence him to life in prison for his crimes.
Jayme Closs vowed never to let her kidnapper control her in a powerful statement read at the sentencing hearing of Jake Patterson, who has pleaded guilty to killing the 13-year-old's parents and holding her captive for months.
In a statement read by her attorney, Chris Gramstrup, Closs said Patterson took away her home and her parents, which she called "the most important things in my life."
"He took them away from in a way that will always leave me with a horrifying memory," she said in the statement, published by CNN. "I have to have an alarm in the house now just so I can sleep. I used to love to go out with my friends. I love to go to school. I love to dance. He took all of those things away from me too. It's too hard for me to go out in public. I get scared, and I get anxious. These are just ordinary things that anyone like me should be able to do. But I can't because he took them away from me."
She told investigators she was often forced under Patterson's bed for hours without food or bathroom breaks. She said she was able to escape Patterson's house by pushing the storage boxes that barricaded her under the bed while he wasn't home.
"I watched his routine, and I took back my freedom. I will always have my freedom, and he will not," Closs' statement said. "Jake Patterson can never take away my courage. He thought he could control me, but he couldn't."
Closs was not in court for the sentencing but asked the judge for the maximum sentence.
"Jake Patterson will never have any power over me. I feel like I have some power over him," she said in her statement, asking the judge to sentence Patterson to life in prison.
Patterson had faced up to life in prison for each homicide count and up to 25 years for the kidnapping charge. Prosecutors asked for the maximum sentence on each charge, with no chance of release, The Associated Press reported.
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