Jacobs Memory and Hope

Patty Wetterling, a Mother’s Legacy

By Cordelia Anderson, friend, colleague and admirer

Patty Wetterling, a mother, victim-parent, and tireless victim advocate, has created waves of heart-based social change. Her activism slowly grew out of the tragedy of her son Jacob’s abduction on October 22, 1989. The search for Jacob lasted nearly 27 years along with the families, and so many others, firm hope tha

t Jacob was alive. That reality shifted when Jacobs remains were identified. On September, 6, 2016, Danny Heinrich plead guilty to a child pornography charge while also admitting, with horrifying detail, how he had kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered Jacob. He buried Jacob’s body in Paynesville, MN which is near the same small town where he had kidnapped and sexually assaulted another boy, Jared Scheierl. While not admitting to more crimes, there were other boys about the same age, about the same time, approached and assaulted in a similar way.  Read entire piece

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