The Uber ride she was expecting after a night of drinking never came to get her in downtown Livermore — instead, a woman publicly known only as Jane Doe found herself a captive, held inside a box truck with nothing more than a mattress.

“I remember the thoughts going through my mind, the thought that this was it. I was going to die or go missing and no one was going to find me ever again,” the woman recalled at a recent sentencing hearing. With no other options, she “begged and pleaded” for her phone so she could say goodbye to her young daughter.

What happened next, she says, was “the smartest move I made in the whole evening in preparation to try to get rescued” during the harrowing October 2021 incident.

“When I was handed my phone, I instantly sent a text to my then boyfriend and as

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