From the Archives: Esposito apologizes to Katie Beers at sentencing
Photo credit: Newsday / Dick Kraus | Law enforcement workers excavate the bunker which held Katie Beers under John Esposito's Bay Shore garage. (Jan. 19, 1993)
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Katie Beers, a journey from victim to mother
This article was originally published in on July 27, 1994
Before being sentenced by a judge yesterday to 15 years to life in prison, John Esposito bowed his head, fighting back tears, as the hurt of the 11-year-old girl he held in a dungeon for 16 days resonated through a Suffolk County courtroom.
"He made me feel dirty," sixth-grader Katie Beers said in a statement prepared with her...
