12-year-old girl kidnapped and assaulted by beloved family friend – Jan Broberg tells her story
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🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
This Week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: A 12-year-old girl kidnapped twice by a close family friend. Jan Broberg shares her story of abduction at the hands of a master manipulator who tortured her entire family.
Check out Peacock's A Friend of the Family, a drama based on Jan's abduction: https://www.peacocktv.com/stream-tv/a-friend-of-the-family
Watch Netflix's Abducted in Plain Sight, a documentary featuring Jan and her family: https://www.netflix.com/title/81000864
Read Jan’s full story: https://www.amazon.com/Jan-Broberg-Story-Crime-Abducted-ebook/dp/B0BGVW36YG?ref_=ast_sto_dp
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| 0:00.0 | A word of warning, this podcast explores graphic and disturbing stories and includes |
| 0:05.1 | some strong language. |
| 0:06.6 | It therefore may not be suitable for our young listeners or other folks who may find |
| 0:11.4 | it disturbing. |
| 0:12.7 | Hello and welcome to a special edition of True Crime Daily, The Podcast. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm your host, Anna Garcia. |
| 0:18.5 | Everyone in the world of True Crime has a story to tell about a case they worked or that |
| 0:21.8 | they lived through. |
| 0:23.2 | Summer high profile, some you have never heard of, but they are all fascinating. |
| 0:27.4 | Today's case has been in the headlines for decades because the crime is so outrageous |
| 0:32.5 | and unbelievable. |
| 0:33.7 | It was the subject of the Netflix documentary abducted in plain sight. |
| 0:38.0 | Peacock's new TV drama called A Friend of the Family is based on this crime. |
| 0:44.8 | We're talking about a 12 year old Mormon girl named Jan Broberg who was kidnapped twice |
| 0:51.4 | by the same friend of the family, a pedophile who sexually assaulted her more than 200 times. |
| 0:58.2 | He even forced her to marry him at the age of 12 and then at the age of 14, he kidnapped |
| 1:04.1 | her again. |
| 1:05.4 | But perhaps the most shocking part was how the girl's parents were manipulated by this |
| 1:09.4 | madman and to a degree, they enabled him and his access to their little girl. |
| 1:15.5 | Jan Broberg, after working for years as an actress, she has dedicated her life now to |
| 1:22.4 | helping survivors of sexual crimes and Jan is joining us now. |
| 1:28.5 | Jan, I thank you so much for coming on the program. |
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