Samantha (the victim)

I wasn't sure he would stop.

If I tried to push him away, would he hold me down again?

I never want to worry about him hurting me or another woman ever again.

I ask that the court protect myself and other women from being stalked and raped by this sick and destructive man by considering the longest sentence permitted by law.

I guess when you see someone as strong as Sam is and as unshakable as Sam is, and then you see them break down a little bit, it just really spoke to the depths of what this person had done to her.

This court itself has let me down before.

What if they only give 20, 25 years and then I need to move and go into hiding and change my name so that I feel safe?

The judge said that he felt Christopher was not able to be rehabilitated.

The judge started talking about a reasonable life expectancy for someone Christopher Thomas's age.

And that's when we got really excited.

At the time of sentencing, Christopher Thomas was 39 years old.

And Judge Elzenheimer gave him 40 to 60 years.

So he's going to be almost 80 before he even has a chance of getting out of prison.

Justice is a funny thing.

It...

doesn't necessarily come in the form of prison years.

I can't ever go back to before I was kidnapped.

And that's something I had to grieve.

Yeah.

But knowing that I'm finally turning the page of this,