Former Sacramento abuse victim jets into future of endless possibilities
Manny Crisostomo / mcrisostomo@sacbee.comLilly Manning, 19, pulling her suitcases, heads to the Southwest Airlines counter at Sacramento International Airport on Tuesday to check in for a flight to New York state. She was accompanied by childhood friend and recent roommate Netya Burton, who brought along cousins she was baby-sitting. Manning plans to live with her older sister Natasha in New York.
Lilly Manning boarded her first airplane Tuesday and headed east for what she hopes will be a new life, free of torture and abuse and death threats.
Settled aboard Southwest Flight 120, the native of Sacramento left town on her own terms – now 19, no longer the frail teenager locked in a south Sacramento closet and routinely beaten with hammers and shoes and two-by-fours.
Lilly is moving on.
"I'm kind of nervous," she said before boarding. "But I can't wait!"
Lilly's childhood story of abuse and the criminal sentencing of her adoptive mom were featured last month in The Bee. Her departure Tuesday for New York state was helped in large part by Sacramento Bee readers, who donated more than $10,000 after reading about the violence that had consumed her childhood.
Adopted in the early 1990s by her great-aunt, along with four of her siblings, Lilly was routinely beaten and burned and locked for days in a 20-by-26-inch closet. She escaped from the closet in October 2007, unleashing the law on her adoptive mom, Lillian Manning-Horvath, and the woman's husband, Joseph Horvath.
Donations and offers of help began pouring in after The Bee published "The Girl with 100 Scars" on July 3. More support for Lilly rolled in after a story Sunday detailed the many agencies that came into contact with the family but did not move to protect the children.
By late Tuesday, a Bank of America fund established in Lilly's name had grown to $10,265, money that Lilly acknowledges has underwritten some typical teenage desires: a laptop, an iPhone, another tattoo and four new suitcases to hold her worldly possessions. (Two bags were assigned solely to her coveted shoe collection.)
"Hey, I saw her in the paper!" exclaimed one traveler in the Southwest ticketing line, who wished Lilly well and introduced himself later as Steve Leslie, 50, a businessman from Citrus Heights.
"I think it's great she got out of there," said Leslie, referring to Lilly's daring escape from an abusive home.
Accompanied to the airport by her childhood friend and roommate, Netya Burton, 19, Lilly seemed unfazed by the attention.
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(Two bags were assigned solely to her coveted shoe collection.) "Hey, I saw her in the paper!" exclaimed one traveler in the Southwest ticketing line, who wished Lilly well and introduced himself later as Steve Leslie, 50, a businessman from Citrus
Carmine Appice plays drums in Cactus alongside Detroit's own Jim McCarty. Next Friday, June 22, Cactus play the Magic Bag in Ferndale. Here's an interview I did with Appice for UK drum magazine Rhythm in 2008 to warm up for the show.
He was one of eight or so winners, dressed in schoolboy uniforms - "an army of Angus Youngs" standing on two risers beside the drum kit. "For a minute and a half, I was on stage with AC/DC and I look out at the crowd," remembers Thorn.
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