Paul Martin Andrews was 13-years-old when he was abducted, raped, and kept for days in a small underground box with this captor in 1973. Telling a story spanning nearly 50 years, Martin, an advocate for rape survivors and sexual predator laws, spoke with Fox News Digital about his journey depicted in the new Fox Nation series “Lost Then Found: Tales of a Kidnapping.”
The hole in the ground which housed the plywood box Martin was kept in can still be found in Virginia today. He was asked once what it was like to go back and stand in that hole after all those years.
“Some scars just don’t heal,” Martin replied. “It’s hard to believe after 50 years that hole is still there. I still have a scar on me as well.”
While Martin still remembers all that he endured, he felt that the world around had seemed to forget. Not just about his story, but about the dangers sexual predators pose to American cities, like the historic seaport town of Portsmouth where Martin disappeared five decades ago.
“I needed to remind people that this story happened, that these things, these horrible things happen to children – and if you allow sex offenders to roam freely after having committed multiple offenses, they will do it again,” Martin said.
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Martin, who is the subject of the series’ first episode, “The Boy in the Box,” said that he hopes his story doesn’t just remind people about what can happen to children, but also what children go through and how society often attempts to project adult-thinking on to a child’s mind.
Children are used to being dependent on adults, said Martin. Even if the adult they look up to, the adult that takes care of them, is their assaulter, their abuser, their abductor—Martin maintained they will still cling to that person to survive.
“It is not a crime that just happens and it’s over. That crime stays with those children for the rest of their lives. They…
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