Kidnapped Child Found Alive After 19 YEARS & 9 Children

Kidnapped Child Found Alive After 19 YEARS & 9 Children

When a woman walked into the American Consulate in Mexico with eight children in tow, they had no idea they were looking at a missing woman who had been kidnapped 19 years prior. This woman was not even a preteen when she vanished from the States, and now she begged for a return and an escape from her captor.

But, this story is absolutely incredible about a kidnapped child found alive 19 years later with nine children of her own. In today’s video, we’re going to talk a bit about CPTSD and how it connects to this survivor, as well as my own struggles with it. And so, I know personally just how important therapy is to live a life where you’re not just surviving, you are actually thriving, and it is possible for everyone.

A few weeks back, I did the story covering a victim named Kay who had lived her entire life trapped in a prison-like cell room, and she was basically treated like a slave. Now, a lot of you guys told me when I covered that case that there was a very similar one in Poland. This was the case of Merella, who had spent 27 years in her family’s apartment building before being found just days from her death. So, I was looking into this, of course, and that is what led me to the story that we are covering today. A story that, like I said, is not covered greatly in the true crime space, and I believe, just like every survivor, her story deserves to be told.

So, let’s get into the case of Rosalyn McGinnis. Back in 1997, Rosalyn McGinnis was a 12-year-old living with her mother, stepfather, and brothers in Oklahoma. She was an honor student who took violin lessons, and she wanted to be a veterinarian when she grew up. She had lots of family in Kansas City, Missouri, had lived there prior, and was constantly visiting them, but they had all moved to Oklahoma. At this point, she was in middle school in the sixth grade, and on January 31st of 1997, she never returned home.

She had been born in 1984 to Gayla and Michael and had several siblings. But around 9 years old, her mother, Gayla, had actually met a man named Henry at a park, and he soon became their stepfather. Three years later, Rosalyn would vanish. For the next decade, no one knew where she had gone, and letters would be received—allegedly from Rosalyn—sent to relatives, the media, and law enforcement, stating that she had run away from her crazy mother and no-good family. While her mother searched for her, the search was fruitless.

But 19 years later—that’s right, almost two decades—a woman showed up at the US Consulate in Mexico. She had eight kids following behind her. It was July 2016, and the woman told the guards on duty that she was an American citizen and she had been kidnapped many years ago. The woman and the children were processed through security and taken into a quiet room to be questioned. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) investigator Clifton Funkhouser entered to speak with her.

The woman told Funkhouser that she wanted to return to the United States and take her eight children with her. She explained that when she was about 10 years old, she had been kidnapped, held captive, tortured, lived in horrible conditions, and abused. She was forced to have all of these children with her captor. She also knew that her captor had been involved in human smuggling activities at the US-Mexico border. Her name? Rosalyn McGinnis. A name that she hadn’t been able to use in years.

After hearing her story, DSS Special Agent Funkhouser contacted the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to report this woman found and help her get the proper paperwork to get home. They also referred the case to the FBI, to whom she would tell her story next. After nearly two decades, Rosalyn had been found alive and returned to the United States. Her eight children were able to go with her, settling in Kansas City, Missouri, near Rosalyn’s hometown of Springfield. But, it was revealed that Rosalyn actually had a ninth child as well, who had escaped the captor prior.

Rosalyn continued to work with the DSS to bring her captor to justice because he, too, had been missing for the last 19 years. By September 2017, a year after Rosalyn’s escape, the DSS confirmed that her captor had been located in Mexico. This was the first time any US authority had located him since 1997. The FBI and the Mexican authorities began working together to obtain the paperwork needed to remove him from Mexico and return him to the States.

Throughout the investigation, dozens of copies of IDs were found to be used by this man. Rosalyn claimed that they had gone by different aliases throughout all of the years, and she didn’t know which one he was currently using. But, the investigative team ended up tracking him to Oaxaca, Mexico, where he was finally arrested. His name? Henry Piette. And Henry is a name you’ve heard before, because that was Rosalyn’s stepfather.

Rosalyn’s horror story had started long before her kidnapping. You see, when her mother, Gayla, met Henry, she was still with Rosalyn’s father. The two began to have playdates with their kids, as Henry had children as well. The kids became close, they were having sleepovers, and at first, she thought that it was a bad dream when she was assaulted by Henry at one of the sleepovers. She didn’t tell her mom at the time because she had confessed to her mother prior that one of her half-brothers had assaulted her previously, and her mom didn’t believe her. So, Rosalyn kept this a secret.

Gayla and Henry began getting to know each other better. They had similar religious beliefs as they were both Mormons, and they began to hang out more and more, and that is when her husband Michael would end up leaving her. Henry stepped in as a father to Rosalyn and her brothers soon after. Rosalyn stated that Henry was always reading Bible passages and encouraging their mother to discipline them physically. He then began beating the children and their mother, and Rosalyn described how Henry would separate the children often and impose some sort of hierarchy system within the family.

While in Springfield, Missouri, the authorities were aware of Gayla’s beatings, and they were trying to help her. So, Henry began to tell her that she would be blamed for it if she ever told them the truth. Henry then moved the family—the entire family—on a road trip. He wanted to move them out of the place where people were catching on to his abusive behavior. They went through Arizona, Oregon, Utah, California, Montana, Texas, Oklahoma, and even Guatemala.

The family was begging for money. They lived in a tent for quite some time. Rosalyn remembered being given beer by Henry before he would assault her, and the family eventually settled in Wagoner, Oklahoma. However, Henry was said to become even more of a monster stepfather there. The physical and sexual abuse became psychological as well. He would hit the kids with 2x4s if they didn’t have proper grammar. He would punch their mother directly in the face, and the assault of Rosalyn continued even two years later.

This is when her mother found the strength to escape with the children. She took them all back to Independence, Missouri, where her mother lived, and they were free—or so they thought. Only weeks later, Henry arrived in Missouri and took them back to Oklahoma. Henry would force Gayla to marry him at this time. But, little did anyone know that he also pretended to marry her 11-year-old daughter, Rosalyn. Rosalyn would explain that Henry told her that he had sinned by having sex with her, and to address this, he was going to have to marry her. They had a secret ceremony that was officiated by one of Henry’s sons, but the assault continued daily at this time.

At 12 years old, CPS actually got involved with this family, and Gayla and the kids were sent to live in a domestic violence shelter in Oklahoma. Rosalyn was finally able to be a kid again. She was finally attending middle school. She was away from her abusive stepfather, but he refused to let them go. Not long after, Rosalyn remembered that she was outside at school on the playground at recess, and she saw Henry outside. This was Pansy Kidd Middle School on January 31st, when Henry approached the 12-year-old girl and told her that he loved her and would reunite their family. He told her to look for signs.

Later in the school day, Rosalyn would see a sombrero and a poncho sitting inside of the school. She knew that these were from a trip to Mexico that she had taken with Henry. She was then called to the school office and told that someone was there to pick her up. She ran outside. She saw Henry’s son, Tobias, in the truck. She got inside and drove to Tulsa, Oklahoma, with him, believing that her entire family was coming as well. She was reunited with Henry and the children; however, her mother and her siblings weren’t there. When asked about them, Henry told her that they had not had enough time to get her brothers and that her mother was not coming back.

As if that wasn’t the most horrifying thing that her stepfather could have said to her, he continued talking to his own children when he told them that Rosalyn was their new mother. Meanwhile, her mother, who was thankfully alive and well, had no idea where her daughter had gone. She was told by the school that her daughter was picked up in a small gray pickup and the driver was a younger male, approximately 18 years old, dressed up in some sort of uniform or suit.

Gayla reached out to the media. She began making missing persons posters and worked with child search ministries as well. She stated that her 12-year-old had red hair, blue eyes, weighed 110 lbs, and may be in the company of a non-custodial stepfather using the name Piette. For the next year, they searched endlessly for her to no avail.

Meanwhile, Rosalyn could not attend school. Sixth grade was the last grade she would ever attend. She was moved around the country, given false names—one being Stephanie Reed. She was forced to change her identity, and all of the children were constantly informed by Henry on what to tell anybody who asked questions about their family. Rosalyn was physically and sexually abused three times a day. She was forced to write letters stating she had run away, and if she misspelled a word, she was hit.

Before Rosalyn even turned 13, while they were living in Oklahoma City, she would become pregnant. She suffered a miscarriage, and Henry forced her to flush it down the toilet without even telling her what had happened. She had no idea what any of that meant. After that, Henry force-fed Rosalyn cocaine and constantly beat her. At 14, she became pregnant again when they lived in Idaho. Now, Henry had to move the family because he did not want the people who were supporting them from the Mormon church to know that Rosalyn was pregnant. So, he moved them to Mexico to avoid questions.

Rosalyn explained that while in Mexico, Henry had once taken her to the hospital to deliver the baby; however, it was too soon, and the doctors refused. But Henry then just took her to a van, used a pocketknife, and delivered the baby on his own. Rosalyn’s first birth experience was just as horrific as the manner in which she was impregnated. Then, they took the baby home, which was really just an abandoned trailer that they were squatting in, where they had no electricity, no water, and it was infested with bedbugs.

Rosalyn was trapped with her kidnapper and forced to have this child as a teenager—barely a teenager. Henry frequently moved them all around Mexico and Guatemala. They didn’t spend more than a few months in one location so that no one would be able to ask questions about this very young mother and bride. As the years went on, the conditions the family lived in never got any better. Rosalyn continued to be assaulted, and she would get pregnant with eight more children.

Rosalyn had been taken out of school in the sixth grade, and now the children were not allowed to go to school or learn to read. They were completely isolated from everyone as well as neglected. One of the girls almost drowned in a bucket of water, and Henry simply hung her upside down until she came to. They were constantly begging for money, moving wherever Henry wanted to go. He never worked, and while Rosalyn would often sell food or fight the locals for money, it was all going to Henry and his drug and alcohol addiction.

Anytime she left the house, she was instructed to keep conversations short and check in hourly. Meanwhile, Rosalyn and the kids had no money for clothing, and one of the boys actually had to use a rope to keep his shorts on. She became unaffected by Henry’s beatings. But 19 years and nine kids later, Rosalyn was finally free.

She had survived this monster for nearly two decades, and by 2017, she told her story, which was first published in People magazine in September. “All I know is that I was going to get away. I was going to go back to the United States so my kids at least would be safe. To describe what you’ve been through… so much trauma in your life, especially when the man who did this to you is not caught. You’re always looking over your shoulder thinking that he’s going to show up. I’ve been waiting my whole life for somebody to find me.”

The very next month, Henry Piette was in custody in Mexico while trying to re-enter the United States. Authorities returned him to the United States to face his crimes, and DSS special agents were at the airport at his arrival and immediately placed him in custody. Henry was indicted by a federal grand jury for kidnapping and traveling with the intent to engage in sexual assault with a juvenile. The prosecution also sought to admit evidence in the upcoming trial that Henry had assaulted his own daughters with Rosalyn, as well as an unrelated girl in Missouri years prior to Rosalyn.

The jury would be told that they should consider the evidence not just for motive and plan, but also for intent and knowledge. It was also stated that this kidnapping had continued uninterrupted from 1997 to 2016 because any break between that time period would have started the 5-year statute of limitations countdown. But Henry argued that it was not continuous. The prosecution stated that he had to prove that. The government then stated on the verdict form, “If you have found the defendant guilty, you will be asked to determine if Rosalyn was no longer held against her will at an earlier date and what that date was.” This way, the court was making a separate legal determination.

Henry then sought to represent himself, stating that he and his lawyer had disagreements. He was given new counsel. Rosalyn then gave an interview to 41 Action News in 2018, stating that she never saw Henry as a stepfather, but someone who preyed on her family; that he knew who to target, how to get what he wanted. He was a child predator who moved into her neighborhood and targeted her family. She said she’d been a normal kid. She felt safe with her family until Henry.

She stated that her life stopped the moment that she was assaulted. “The kind of trauma that I’ve been through… it’s like life stopped the moment that you’re abused and you can remember every detail. It’s hard to explain to someone that hasn’t been through that, but it’s just like imprinted. My mom knew about the abuse. Did she know the extent of it? Yes, she did. So, she knew he was having sex with you? Yes. The next thing I know is that my mother’s not there, my brothers are not there, none of my family’s there, and I’m by myself with this man. I have about 21 scars on top of my head and I’m not talking like little ones. I’m talking about ones like that from being beat over the head, hit over the head with glass beer bottles, 2x4s, cast iron skillets. Like, it’s a miracle that I’m sitting here today. The longest I ever lived in any place was maybe 3 months. All those years being in Mexico I’m like, if I could just, you know, if I ever do get away and if I could just get to the embassy or the consulate, I would be safe, you know. They’re going to get me back home. Hopefully, I’m replacing all those bad memories from such a young age with good memories. The best of their lives.”

63-year-old Henry Michelle Piette would go to trial in 2019. “Mr. Piette, do you have anything to say about the allegations against you?” “Most of her lies, 99% are lies. I’m telling the truth.”

But Rosalyn would testify at the trial that there was never a time that Henry was not beating her. She was sometimes tied to a bed or chained to a pole for days. She did not have the opportunity to be a mother to her children. She had scars all over her body. She had been stabbed. Both of her arms had been broken at one point. She suffered chronic pain and needed surgery after the escape in order to properly speak. She was once hit with a frying pan and it cut her all the way to the bone. And the children had not been treated any better. Henry would hit them with 2x4s, bats, rocks, pans, pickaxes, glass bottles—anything that was within reach. He would beat them unconscious and then tell them that he loved them.

Rosalyn did state that she would sometimes travel back to the US by herself to beg for money, especially when Henry would be in jail. She also purchased a gun and carried it at all times. However, she said that it was Henry’s gun. And this did not mean that Rosalyn was a willing participant in any of this. She was still a captive among what Henry called family. Henry often told her that he would kill the children and her if she ever tried to leave him. That if she went to the police, no one would believe her and so he would then kill her. He said her own family did not want her back and he was the only one that would ever care for her.

Henry stated that she was to do exactly what he told her to do, or else. And the “else” was that he would kill her children. She said she didn’t try to harm Henry because she knew if she didn’t kill him with the first shot or the stab, if he survived, he would kill everyone. While being in Mexico, she feared that if she did kill Henry, she would be in prison for life and then the kids would be sold into slavery.

While fearing for her life and now the lives of nine children, Rosalyn tried to escape several times throughout the years. Once, Henry had left them alone in an Arizona motel room, and she called a women’s crisis shelter. However, Henry returned before she could get help. When Rosalyn was 18, Henry had actually made her go to the Arizona Police Department and tell officers she wanted to be removed from the missing persons database because she had run away. He held three children captive and watched outside of the Police Department.

Once, she had taken all of her children to one of Henry’s sons’ homes—he was a boy named Mikey—but Henry arrived not long after, dragging Rosalyn outside by her hair and beat her. This, however, was when one of the nine children had gotten to escape. He actually had a knife fight with Henry before fleeing from the family. With eight of her children growing older and one who had already decided enough was enough with the abuse and escaped, Rosalyn knew that she needed to run.

By 2016, she had saved up $150, hiding it outside so Henry could not find it. And then she met a couple, Lisa and Ian, in a supermarket. They could not pay for groceries, and this couple paid for Rosalyn to be able to get her groceries that day. She was grateful, the kids were talking to the couple, they were all barefoot, they were eager for interaction, and Rosalyn became friends with them. They often visited Rosalyn’s home, and they eventually told her that they knew something was wrong, and they wanted to help.

Rosalyn had given up escape until that moment. She was shocked, she began trembling because they were the first to ever say anything to her. Henry had been drinking like always, and she bought a birthday cake, and he’s in the other room, and she’s like, “I know there’s something wrong. If you can ever get away, I will help you.”

“She finally turned to me, and she goes, ‘Look, I have to tell you something. Stephanie isn’t my real name, and Bill isn’t his real name.’ I said, ‘Who are you?’ And she said, ‘Well, he is my stepfather. His name is Henry Piette. My real name is Rosalyn McGinnis.’ And there she was, looking almost identical to where she was, but when she was 12, and there’s this little kid who looked like one of her children on this poster, and there she was. She turned to me, and she goes, ‘I’ve been waiting 20 years for somebody to do the math and figure out that a 15-year-old or a 16-year-old shouldn’t have babies like this.’ We knew we needed to do something to help them, but the question was how, what, why, and when.”

Then, she waited until the moment that Henry passed out drunk. She took all eight of her kids and went out searching for a taxi. So, you can imagine eight children huddled in the back of an open fruit truck going through, starting at midnight, to Oaxaca, which is a 9-hour journey. Ian and Lisa were taking care of the children at this time, and Rosalyn, who was forced to go by Stephanie, told them her real name. She feared that Henry would come looking for her, so she ended up contacting the American Consulate in order to get help. When she arrived there, though, the Consulate told her that there was nothing more they could do.

So, Lisa then called the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, who planned the journey to the Mexico border to get their travel documents, and then they were flown to Missouri. Rosalyn said that they were all scared to be on a plane. They had never been before, but they were very excited. The family of victims and survivors were free. They had escaped with the help of a couple in Mexico and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

“We’re not sorry. We’re proud of what we did. In all our lives we’ve had, you know, several careers and done a lot of things and traveled. But this is the single… we decided this is the single most important thing we’ve ever done. I just hope that they manage to live a life without the fear that they’ve been living with. And I hope that they enjoy the rest of their lives.”

She was hailed a hero for her bravery. “Without my children… and I know that I wouldn’t survive, ’cause they give me such a strong will to want to be there for them and to protect them.”

“Rosalyn’s one of our heroes. I mean, you know, when she escaped that captivity in Mexico, she wasn’t only concerned for herself, she was concerned for her children. We were very proud to at least be a part of helping her get back to safety.”

It’s never too late to say something to somebody, and no matter what’s happened to you, there’s always hope. And Rosalyn’s cousin stated that she was in disbelief that her missing cousin had been found with eight children. They were terrified because Henry was still a wanted man, and they feared that he would come back for all of them.

You see, the children had not been spared simply because they were biologically related to this monster. Rosalyn’s firstborn, who was only named as M.P., testified that the assault started when their father made them dance naked, giving them alcohol and drugs. This was before they were even 7 years old. If she resisted, Henry told them that he would do the same thing to one of her younger sisters. The victim testified that they had to step in when Henry was trying to assault their younger sister, A.P., who had started crying. This younger sister, A.P., would testify that Henry started assaulting her when she was 7, and it continued every day. She’d also witnessed her younger brother being assaulted as well.

But the children never talked about it to one another until now. Lisa and Ian, the couple who helped them escape, testified as well and stated that they noticed how isolated the kids were and that something wasn’t right about the situation. At the home, the children’s bedrooms were basically three stalls in a line on a cement floor with thin foam exercise mats as beds. There were holes in the wall for doors and windows, and eight children were living in what looked like the size of a walk-in closet. All the kids were skinny. They would talk about their father not loving them, and every time they visited the family, they knew they needed to help.

When they learned that Henry was 62 and Rosalyn was 32 and had a 17-year-old son, they told Rosalyn they would help her. When she showed up with the kids alone, they knew exactly what she meant. And so they began to feed the starving kids any food they wanted. They were doing tons of oatmeal, cereal, peanut butter and jelly. The couple spoke about how upsetting it was that it took 20 years for someone to help. So many people turned a blind eye. She said that Rosalyn was having nightmares every single night that Henry was standing over her.

Henry’s father actually testified that he was in contact with his son and his wife throughout the years and just believed they were one big happy family. One of Henry’s sons, Tobias, testified that Rosalyn was not the only victim when they lived in Springfield, Missouri, especially. He had seen his father assault several other young children. He once found him with an 8-year-old girl in the shower, and he also saw him giving another younger girl a driving lesson while she sat on his lap.

Henry then spoke to the court for the duration of 30 transcripted pages. He maintained his innocence. He stated that he had a great work ethic and that his bosses called him the “human backhoe,” and they bragged about how popular his family dairy products were in Mexico. But on June 6th of 2019, Henry was found guilty by a federal jury. And on February 20th of 2020, he was sentenced to life for the kidnapping and 360 months for traveling with intent to engage in sexual assault with a juvenile. He was also to give restitution to the victim in the amount of $50,000.

The jury stated that they did not believe that there was a break in that kidnapping. And Rosalyn told 41 Action News that she was just happy that he was put away and he couldn’t hurt anyone anymore. Now, Henry appealed, stating that both of his convictions should be reversed because the court improperly admitted the evidence about the other assaults that he had committed. He was denied this, the court stating that it wasn’t an abuse of discretion to admit the evidence and that his daughter’s assault was admissible, and the Springfield girl’s assault likely had no effect on the verdict. The government stated that Henry was producing children who he could control to meet his sexual desires, and that kidnapping Rosalyn was in preparation for this plan to create his own home where he could meet his perverse sexual needs without drawing attention.

After the trial, Rosalyn began focusing on her children. Her oldest son lived out of state, but her eight children still lived with her, ranging from 4 to 19 years old. They attended school, but they were struggling to catch up with their peers, and they were struggling emotionally from the trauma. Rosalyn was working really hard to buy a home for her children near the schools that they attended because she wanted to give them the life she never had. The community businesses actually worked together to fix up this home for her. They were updating the plumbing and electric, as well as the furnace and the air conditioning, as well as designing the place and giving them furniture.

Rosalyn was so thankful, and she was just thankful to be alive. The McGinnis family is now living in a home in Kansas City that was fixed up for them by volunteers and businesses within the KC community. They’re also receiving support from the JAYC Foundation, founded by Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped at age 11 from a bus stop in California. The family is doing well and moving forward with their lives.

Rosalyn had given a victim impact statement, and I feel it’s very important to hear it. She began, “It’s hard to explain in such a short few pages the 22 years of damage this monster, Henry Piette, has done to me. Not one moment of any day goes by when I don’t remember the torment and hell such a man has put me through. How much I wish that I could just erase the 22 years of my life from the age of 10 until the age of 22 until I finally escaped that life in captivity.

“The constant daily beatings, drugs, constant sexual acts I had to perform on a daily basis just to be able to survive another moment of a so-called life with the sadist. Having to watch my kids live in constant fear and poverty. I grew up in a different country where I was secluded emotionally and socially away from people, which has made a big impact in living and adjusting to life here in the United States. Now that I’m living on my own, making my own decisions like what clothes I like to wear, underwear, bras, if I like to put on makeup, if I like to cut my hair, which food I like to eat—things I couldn’t do until I escaped 8 years ago.

“Those whole 22 years of my life with Piette were dictated to me of every breath and movement I was allowed to make. Emotionally I wasn’t able to grow up, not able to have prenatal checkups to know that my children would be all right when each one of them were born. My childhood and young adulthood were taken away from me and no one or anything can give that back.

“I know I now suffer from severe CPTSD, day and night flashbacks from the prior trauma. I suffer from depression, insomnia, anxiety, etc. The extreme trauma that I went through does never go away. It’s something that I have started to learn to live with. I started learning how to live a normal life at the age of 32, also with the challenge to support my nine children who all have special needs. It has not been easy.

“It is still very hard and a daily challenge. Having these nine children look up to me for advice and guidance while I’m still figuring things out myself and trying to help them see the light at the end of that very dark tunnel. Spending an eternity in prison will not give me back those years that monster took from me. I was not able to grow up with my brothers, sisters, mother, father, grandma who passed away while I was missing, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, schooling, prom, first boyfriend, first kiss, college, having children with the man that I would fall in love with, as I can no longer have children. The one thing that it will do is keep him from harming any more children as long as he lives.”

This is such a powerful and impactful statement from Rosalyn. She knew that escape was for them, but it was also for her. But I hope that they get to live a life now that is soft, that is peaceful, where they don’t have to be strong. I personally suffer from CPTSD as well. If you don’t know the difference, it is diagnosed that way because it’s not a singular event that caused the trauma.

It is an everyday, daily basis constant over a period of time that has not ceased, where your body has continued to be in that elevated, stressed state—a traumatized state—and it can have lots of effects on your actual physical body. Not to mention your mental health: a constant weight and almost a 24/7 hyper-vigilance, because that’s what’s needed in order to survive.

It’s not just one event that continues to come up in your memories. It is all of your memories over this period of time, or a lifetime, and that takes a bit longer to heal from. So, I hope that Rosalyn and her children don’t give up on that healing. It can take some time, but it is so worth it, because that man, that monster, does not get to reign control over them anymore, and that’s what healing is.

It’s a release of that power from the monsters. So, thank you so much for listening to Rosalyn McGinnis’s story. I will leave a playlist of other survivor stories down below if you need to hear some more. I feel like at this time in the world, we all just need some happy endings and some good news. So, I was happy to bring this to you today.

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