PROSPECT HEIGHTS — A Sudanese girl’s childhood of torturous abuse — endured after she was kidnapped and held captive during the African slave trade of the mid-to-late 1800s — would understandably scar anyone for life.
Despite that horrific experience, Josephine Bakhita chose to love. She eventually reached Italy, where she won her freedom, embraced Catholicism, and became a nun.
She once said, “If I were to meet the slave traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me…
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