Perfect Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the Box by Christine McGuire & Carla Norton

Author:Christine McGuire & Carla Norton [McGuire, Christine & Norton, Carla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780440204428
Amazon: 0440204429
Publisher: Dell
Published: 1989-07-02T02:30:00+00:00

At last he ascended the pulpit, the assembly hushed, and the service began.

It was a service not unlike thousands that take place every Sunday across the country. The congregation sang together, prayed together, and listened quietly as the pastor extolled virtues and castigated sins in his "message," the spiritual focus of the morning. As Pastor Dabney rocked back and forth on his heels, his words resonating through the room, he surveyed his flock, noticing two new faces among the congregation.

There was nothing especially remarkable about "Kay

Powers" and Janice Hooker, except that Mrs. Hooker was often noticeably moved by the pastor's message. She wept. The pastor made it a policy not to pry, but it seemed clear this was a deeply troubled young woman.

Jan and K were now attending church regularly, so Pastor Dabney decided to pay them a call. They'd included their address when they signed the register, so one morning, unannounced, the pastor drove out to the brown and yellow trailer off Pershing Road.

It was just a brief social call. Pleasant, but unremarkable . . . except that "Kay" seemed a little nervous. When Pastor Dabney appeared at the door, she dropped and broke a dish.

One evening, on the spur of the moment, Lenora Scott and her husband, Tom, decided to stop by and see if K might like to -go out with them. They pulled up outside of the mobile home and K hurried out to greet them.

"We're going out," they said. "You wanna come along?"

K asked them to wait, then rushed back inside the mobile home. Strange. It seemed she had gone in to ask permission.

When K came out she said she'd like to go with them, then invited them inside. They went in and spoke briefly with the Hookers. Lenora found Cameron only slightly less taciturn than the last time. He still just sat. Lenora thought he was weird.

They went to the Palomino Room, a popular after-hours place in the middle of Main Street. Each had a drink in the dimly lit bar, but they found it smoky and "full of drunks," so they only stayed a short time before taking K back home.

It wasn't much of a night out on the town, but even with friends in a bar, K divulged little about herself. "She was very meek," Lenora observed, "and she had no opinions. The only thing she seemed to feel real strongly about was religion." Not that K was preachy, but it seemed that religion was the only thing that meant very much to her.

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children.

And she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was

Hagar.

So Sarai said to Abram, "See now, the Lord has restrained me from bearing children. Please, go in to my maid; perhaps I shall obtain children by her." And Abram heeded the voice of Sarai.

Then Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband to be his wife. . . .

Genesis, 16:1-3 Holy Bible, The New King

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