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California kidnap victim Denise Huskins is speaking out after accusations by strangers that she faked her high-profile abduction almost two years ago.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAll I did was survive, and I was criminalized for it,\u201d Huskins wrote on Facebook Sunday.<\/p>\n

In March of 2015, Huskins was held at <\/span>gunpoint, drugged and kidnapped <\/span>from her home in Vallejo, California. She was released after two days near her mother\u2019s home in Huntington Beach, California. Her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, was also held at gunpoint, drugged and forced into a closet.<\/p>\n

Huskins\u2019 case became erroneously known as the <\/span>\u201cGone Girl\u201d kidnapping, referencing the popular book and movie about a phony kidnapping, after Vallejo police initially publicly cast doubt on her story.<\/p>\n

But four months later, Matthew Muller, a former Marine and a Harvard-educated lawyer, was arrested after he became a suspect in a similar home invasion attack in Dublin, California. Muller pleaded guilty last September to kidnapping in U.S. District Court in Sacramento, California. He is scheduled to be sentenced March 16.<\/p>\n

Despite Muller\u2019s plea, Huskins wrote she continues to be harassed online. Included with her Facebook post was the screenshot of a message she purportedly received from a Peoria, Illinois man.<\/p>\n

In the message, the man wrote: \u201cAre you that horrible lying woman who faked her own kidnapping???\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh wow you are such a horrible person,\u201d he added. \u201cYou are going to hell for the u have done. I\u2019d like to slap you a few times\u2026. And just so u known, ur not as pretty as u think. I\u2019d put u at being 5 outta 10.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately this is just one example of countless messages like this that I have received,\u201d Huskins wrote. \u201cAnd like the ones before this, unfortunately this guy won.\u201d<\/p>\n

Huskins wrote the online attacks have taken an emotional toll on her.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter reading this I went into one of my many PTSD episodes of terror,\u201d she wrote. \u201cMy jaw and back are sore from the deep powerful shaking and reflexive tension that my whole body goes into. My eyes are sore and red from uncontrollable tears. I am thoroughly exhausted, every inch of my body is tired from the fit of terror it was battling.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued, \u201cCongratulations, person I have never met, never heard of who hates me so much that he went out of his way to message me this disgusting, demeaning, dehumanizing outrage.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s almost been two years, a year and a half since it was made public that this was real, that Aaron and I were telling the truth the whole time,\u201d Huskins wrote. \u201cBut here we are, starting our new year hoping for a more positive future, but confronted with hate and ignorance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quinn wrote his own post on Facebook supporting Huskins and called her his \u201chero.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI post this because I cannot believe the amount of unwarranted hatred Denise Huskins has received from law enforcement\u2019s flat out lie,\u201d he said. \u201cThis message was sent yesterday, more than a year and a half after one of the kidnappers was caught. Denise endured unimaginable horrors and should have been treated like a hero when she got home but instead she continues to endure vile messages such as this one. Nevertheless she conducts herself with love and grace. She\u2019s my favorite person and unquestionably my hero.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawsuit Against Police<\/h4>\n

In March of 2016, Huskins and Quinn filed a <\/span>federal civil rights lawsuit <\/span>against Vallejo and its police department, accusing the department of defamation, false arrest and false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional distress. (Quinn has claimed he was initially held for an 18-hour interrogation after reporting Huskins missing, during which police accused him of killing her.)<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the rest of their lives these two individuals have essentially a tattoo on their forehead, which labels them as hoaxers,\u201d their attorney, Kevin Clune, previously told PEOPLE.<\/p>\n

Vallejo police said they were initially skeptical of Huskins\u2019 abduction because they didn\u2019t believe Quinn\u2019s version of events, including that he had been drugged by intruders, according to an earlier court filing.<\/p>\n

Police also were skeptical because Huskins allegedly did not meet with her parents in the days after her reappearance, according to the filing.<\/p>\n

The city has argued that its officers\u2019 public statements after the abduction were constitutionally protected speech, claiming the officers are protected under the state\u2019s \u201cabsolute immunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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