Debbie Ali's Comeback

[LadyDeath]

So Everyone read this and tell me what you think.. My comments are that my heart goes out to her for everything she has went through especially being raped on more than one occasions with two men , having to drink water in a dog's bowl sharing it with the dog, being dumped in a hole, being slapped and cuffed down with every move you make , being chained down by a dog chain and having forced to do nasty stuff. I do not if i can believe her supernatural witness but there are many beliefs people hold

Debbie Ali was a teacher, a mother of two, and a loving wife to her husband, Ashmeed Ali. On the night of December 5, 2006, she was preparing to celebrate her 30th birthday when she was kidnapped. She was not released until two weeks later, when an undisclosed ransom was paid for her release. Nearly three years later, no one has been charged with that kidnapping, although word on the ground is that two of the kidnappers have been killed.
While the lives of most kidnap victims change, and they choose to remain silent, Ali is not prepared to let it die. On Thursday night, she mounted a platform in Gasparillo, to speak about how her life has changed.
“I am almost certain that everyone here knows the story of my kidnapping in December 2006, and I will continue to say that crime and the horrid effects of violent crime are not so much a political issue as it is a people issue,” Ali said. “My life and the lives of my family have been forced into change, and believe me when I say that, not all change is positive. I can no longer walk the busy streets of San Fernando like I did almost everyday, as a teenager. I can no longer water the plants in my front yard after dusk even with a secure fence because there are always nefarious characters lurking, watching and waiting on an opportunity to pounce. “I do not live in fear, I live aware. No longer can I go for a jog around the block. Why? Because, about two months ago, a young man jogging in front of my very own house was beaten and robbed directly under the street light. I do not believe that anyone was caught. In fact, to date, no one has ever been arrested in connection with my kidnapping—two years later.”
The former teacher said there have been terrible changes in the lives of her two children. “I foolishly thought that they were overcoming the pains they suffered as a result of my abduction,” she said. “No longer than three weeks ago, I told my eight-year-old daughter at her school that I would be in a nearby classroom speaking to a teacher. “You see, now I must always tell my two children and husband where I will be at all points in time. A short while later, my baby daughter ran back to look for me, and I forgot what I had told her. She grew hysterical and in her panic, she ran crying onto the football field to find her brother.
“In sheer hysteria, my two babies combed the entire school compound looking for me and eventually found me in the said classroom speaking with the teacher. My daughter’s response was to latch on to me crying hysterically for a good 15 minutes. "She cried that she thought ‘they’ had taken me again, that ‘they’ had kidnapped me again. My son, as brave as he was for his baby sister, and as red and breathless as he was from playing football, let out a sigh of relief that made him weak in the knees and he all, but cried as well.” After nearly three years, Ali said she has not seen justice.
“While I had said in the past that I had forgiven my abductors for their wrongdoing, I most certainly did not mean that I did not want to see them brought to justice,” she said. “Perhaps, having those criminals caught may bring some healing to my husband and me, but what about my two innocent children? Will there ever be healing for them? Will they ever get over the fear of losing me again?”
The Kidnapping
Ali was at her home at Roystonia Gardens, Couva, on December 5, 2006. She was preparing to open gifts with her husband and children in celebration of her 30th birthday. She was cleaning her garage. When she saw her neighbours going inside, she also decide to go indoors. She stretched her hand to push the automatic button to open the front garage gate when she was snatched. According to Ali, that took just 30 seconds. “That was all the time needed for them to snatch me away from my family,” Ali said. She was kept locked in her husband’s car for two weeks. She was kept blindfolded and at the mercy of the kidnappers.
After she was released, Ali said, “God and God alone was the only force that gave me the determination to keep a positive mind and the will to survive. “Some days I wish I could crawl in a hole and never come out. I have many days like that,” she added.Nearly three years later, Ali can smile and talk openly about her ordeal. She was kidnapped two weeks before Xtra Foods CEO, Vindra Naipaul-Coolman. Ali was released the day after Naipaul-Coolman was snatched and never heard of again. The big question is, who kidnapped Debbie Ali?

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While being held captive by kidnappers, she felt like she died, went to heaven, and saw Jesus. “I felt my life leaving me, but at no point did I cease to be who I am. I was taken to a place where there was rest, release, peace. “Nothing like pain there; no fear, no anxiety. Sadness and grief? It was impossible to feel those things. “I tried to feel sad about leaving my children, but I couldn’t,” kidnap survivor, Debbie Ali, told the Sunday Guardian last week. Ali said she must have been “dead” for about two hours, because she felt her life leave her around midday and her breath return in the early afternoon.
Kidnapped on December 5, 2006, from her Roystonia, Couva home, she reveals an astounding spiritual encounter she had during her two weeks of captivity in her soon-to-be-released book, “Bare Feet.” A former teacher who now describes herself as a writer, Ali has two children with her pilot husband. Although by no means wealthy, Ali was abducted and brutalised for ransom, news reports at the time stated. She says she was “mandated” by God to write the book and tell of her spiritual experience. She says she even heard God speaking to her in an audible voice, telling her how to market the book. “He told me to go to Oprah Winfrey and Obama with the book.” This may sound far-fetched to some, but Ali says she is now “only a phone call away” from making this a reality. “A lot of people will think I’m a nut case and will not believe me, but that doesn’t change the fact that the experience exists.”

Chained, raped, tortured
She was chained to a bed with a dog chain, raped and “tortured more than any woman could bear,” slapped, choked, kicked and cuffed.
“I had a pit bull maul me two, three nights. I had to keep dodging it, but it managed to bite out pieces of my hair. “I was blindfolded and didn’t see light for 14 days. I got eye and ear infections because of the sweat and tears. My vision has never been the same. “I was thrown into a hole in the ground and kept there for one day.” Ali tells all in raw, frank style in “Bare Feet,” which was a torment to write, she said. “It was like reliving the entire thing again. I would write one line and be sick for weeks. “It was not a healing process. Had it not been mandated to me to write this book, I would have never written it. “I had to tell of the spiritual experience I had while in captivity.
I felt my life pass away and leave my body. I’ve been to Heaven.”
It wasn’t just a state of mind she was in, either. “I saw, touched, tasted and felt,” Ali said. “I saw Jesus.” Asked to describe Him, she said after a pause, “He was like light and spirit with a human silhouette. “He lifted me and held me in His arms and nothing is comparable to that experience. “God wants me to write about the experience to show that He exists and He knows, sees and hears all that is done in darkness and in light, and that He saves. “The kidnapping was only a vehicle to expose this experience.” Her spiritual encounter is what gives her the will to live. “This experience I had in Heaven is what keeps me going. If I don’t relive it, I can’t get through the day. It reminds me of where I’m going.” Ali said nothing in the world had any meaning to her any more, including material possessions.
Non-existent case
Despite her heavenly encounter, Ali feels she has been permanently damaged by what the kidnappers did to her. “I don’t feel vindicated, in terms of justice being served. I heard through the grapevine that my case is not on the files; that it was closed because there is no evidence.” While Ali’s ordeal does not exist in the police files, it remains a nightmare that haunts her daily. “The experience goes into my family, my kids, my marriage, with long-term effects. “I don’t think I’ll ever be whole again. You really just can’t, after such an experience.” After three years, it has become easier to bear. But time had only eased the impact, Ali said. “I still take pills to go to sleep. I still have nightmares and wake up cold-sweating.” Ali sought the help of top T&T psychologists, but found none trained to deal with survivors of crime. She tried to set up a support group for female crime survivors, but had difficulty accessing funding. “I try to talk to women. The Anti-Kidnapping Unit used to refer women victims of crime to me.”
Daily terror
Ali still lives in the Roystonia home she was snatched from on December 5, her 30th birthday. Crime continues to plague the middle-income community located a stone’s throw from a Couva housing development, notorious for its criminal links. Residents lived in daily terror, Ali said, as break-ins and robberies occurred weekly. “Crime has escalated here to an unbelievable figure. People are robbed and beaten while jogging and have their houses broken into in broad daylight. “I was almost a victim a second time recently. I spotted a strange car making the rounds and called the AKU, and they came in 20 minutes. “The same vehicle was seen in another street later where a couple was held up at gunpoint and had their vehicle stolen.” Ali said almost every home in Roystonia was equipped with an alarm system, electronic gates, electrified fences and beefed-up burglarproofing. “You’re always on high alert, but no human is programmed to live like that.” Ali fears the crime situation will get worse this year with increased unemployment.