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But either way, he's dead, so fuck him.
Let's get back to the most important person in our story.
After her dramatic rescue, she was placed in foster care and sent to live with a new family in the affluent area of East Hampton, just an hour and a half away from where she grew up.
But the press weren't ready to let their star survivor go just yet.
Camera crews parked outside her new school, hoping for a glimpse of Katie, all jostling for that money shot.
Bizarrely, Spaceplex owner Gary Tazalo declared on local TV that he wanted to throw Katie the birthday party she never had and invite all of Long Island.
Everyone just wants to cash in on this story.
That is grotesque.
But here's where the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office really did shine.
Because they actually made a public statement demanding for Katie to be left alone.
DA James Catterson declared, we as a society must protect this child or our professed love for our own children is just a fraud and our so-called compassion for each other is just a mockery.
After the trauma she'd survived, Katie deserved a normal life away from media intrusion.
So with more than a hint of disappointment, the journos put down their cameras and stepped away.
And for the next two decades, Katie Beers lived her life out of the spotlight.
But it wasn't easy for Katie to get her head around the new living arrangements.
She was ten years old, confused, scared, and for a while, absolutely not having it.