Tortured By His Own Family: The Six-Year-Old Chained in A Closet

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🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Original Air Date: 04/15/2011 At times he wasn’t given any food or water for days, all while being chained inside a tiny closet. At age 19, Clayton speaks out for the first time about the torture he endured at the hands of his father and stepmother when he was six. Plus, Oprah speaks with the man who saved Clayton’s life.

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0:00.0	Through 25 seasons, 4,561 episodes, I believe the Open Winfrey Show was one of the greatest
0:08.7	classrooms in the world.
0:10.2	I really never thought of it that way.
0:12.2	The aha moments, the breakthroughs, the LOLs, the connections, the occasional ugly cry.
0:20.1	I'm missing, so terribly, I'm missing every single minute.
0:23.8	The moments that mattered, the eye-opening light lessons, never allow them to take
0:29.9	to some words.
0:30.9	I'm bringing them back.
0:33.4	It's time to open the vault.
0:35.6	I've personally chosen these classic episodes to share with you again.
0:40.5	Every single person you ever will meet shares that common desire.
0:45.2	They want to know, do you see me?
0:48.0	Do you hear me?
0:49.0	That's what I say, mean anything to you.
0:52.9	You are listening to the Open Winfrey Show, the podcast.
0:59.7	It was the year 2000 when we told his story.
1:03.2	Back then, we couldn't say his name or show his face, but so many of you were outraged.
1:10.1	He was a six-year-old little boy who had endured some of the most heinous child abuse our
1:15.7	nation had ever heard.
1:17.9	Try to imagine what it would be like for a small child to be locked inside a closet.
1:24.5	Our crew reconstructed this closet based on police evidence photos.
1:29.4	It is less than two feet by two feet.
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