ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — An Alexandria mom and daughter are getting prepared for a difficult day, but one they hope will bring some closure.
The third and final defendant will be sentenced Wednesday in a kidnapping and sexual assault case involving now 16-year-old Jasmine Block. Jasmine was kidnapped in 2017 and held in captivity for nearly a month. She later staged a brave escape, running from a pickup truck and swimming across a lake to find a man who called authorities. .
Steven Powers is the last of the three men involved in the kidnapping and assault case to learn his fate from a judge.
Jasmine said she's stronger today than she once was, and she plans to speak about her experience and face down Powers in court. She said she's not going to stay the broken girl forever.
During her captivity, Block was physically and sexually assaulted for weeks. But she escaped after her captors went out for food. "I was thinking if I ever wanted to go back home, now was the time to," said Block, who remembers the day she escaped.
Block ran through the woods and swam across a lake. She eventually found a man who called 911.
Jasmine said she's nervous to speak in court, but her mom said this is part of her lifelong healing process.
"It's a long road to recovery, it's not something that will happen in a few days weeks or years," mother Sarah Block said. "It's going to take a very long time to be able to know you know what we can do and what we can't do and there's no right or wrong way to heal."
It isn't hard to see a connection between Block's story of escape and Jayme Closs.
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Both are teenagers who were kidnapped and later escaped.
Block has a message for Closs, from one survivor to another.
She said she's happy that Closs is back home.
"I'm proud of her, that she's brave," Block said. "She and I have some things in common already. "
Block's mother had a message as well.
"I'm very proud of Jayme for what she did you know she is a hero, she's strong and she's going to be ok...it's not something that's going to happen overnight. Even Jasmine has her struggles we all do," Sarah Block said.
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