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I want the public not to turn their backs. That lack of support, she said, was only magnified when three women escaped from Ariel Castro's Seymour Avenue home last year. Gay broke down sobbing, telling McGinty about what happened in Sowell's home and that she had seen a decomposing woman.

He believed her. I don't want people to misunderstand, they deserve every kind of help they've gotten," Gay said. It doesn't make you disposable. It hurt to see an outpouring of love and support for Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight -- and for Castro's house to be quickly razed and replaced with a garden, while the East Side lot where Sowell's demolished home once stood was still desolate.

That was the beginning of her recovery.

The Victims of Anthony : Her mistrust of the police makes her reluctant to report her attack for many years

The group's facilitator, Melanie GiaMaria, stuck by her through the trial, through the trauma and remains a close friend — in fact, she credits GiaMaria with saving her life. Vanessa Gay, one of the three survivors of Anthony Sowell's attacks says she never received justice, even after testifying against him in Unseen: Directed by Laura Paglin.

But that shouldn't be an excuse for the justice system not to be held fully accountable for its failures, which she said were exploited by Sowell. But eventually, her testimony would put her attacker behind rs:Progressive: Multitask right now.

With Vanessa Gay, Latundra Billups, Shawn Morris, Melvette Sockwell. In the jail, as she waited to go to drug treatment, she participated in a counseling group for women who had been sexually assaulted. Eleven other women did not. Months after Sowell was charged, Gay was arrested because she didn't meet with a probation officer after a drug conviction.

That's what gay need, Gay said. Her vanessa of the police makes her reluctant to report her attack for many years. Vanessa Gay recounts her escape from Anthony Sowell in Cleveland, Ohio. Gay escaped Sowell's Imperial Avenue home in with her life.

Authorities called Gay and other survivors who testified against Sowell brave and heroic but after the trial, once they had what they needed, there was no support. She had tried to tell police, who laughed her off.

Having an addiction doesn't make you less than human. That compels her to speak for them, to defend them so their deaths aren't minimized. But the judge, who since retired and now is the county prosecutor, listened.

I SURVIVED I Felt : After the verdict, Vanessa Gay, who was raped by Sowell and testified in the trial’s first phase, thanked the jury for its decision

With access to the surviving victims, Unseen looks into how the murders of those women went unnoticed for so long. Inpolice discovered the bodies of eleven women decomposing in and around the home of a known sex offender. Road to recovery began with someone listening.

There was no support for my family, for my kids who went through this with us," Gay said. Support dropped off after trial. Sowell's targets, including Gay, all struggled with drug addictions or mental illness. She tried to call for help the day she escaped, only to be coldly told by a dispatcher that she needed to come downtown to file a report.

That's the message Vanessa Gay wants the community to hear today, five years after Anthony Sowell's heinous crimes were discovered.