. >> christine taylor is serving 12 years ago aggravated robbery and kidnapping. >> the crime spree is february 14th of 2006. happened on valentine's day. >> the victim was a close female friend. one that taylor alleges stole items from her. >> i took measures into my own hands what, we call a citizen's arrest. we tied her up. i had two accomplices. they only caught one. >> you tied her up. what do you mean? >> with 50-foot extension cord. she wasn't really being cooperative in telling me where my things were and i felt it was the best way to get her to tell me if i bound here. this probably proceeded for the next eight hours of the day. >> during those eight hours taylor committed a series of atrocities. >> i burned her on her face. i burned her on other sides with a 12-gauge shotgun, had i pistol whipped her in her hip which took a chunk about a quarter size out of her hip. she was disfigured i guess you could say. her face couldn't really look at her and see it was her. said filthy mean things to her that i knew would hurt her and get under her skin. i cried a lot during the procedu

. >> christine taylor, serving 12 years for aggravated robbery and kidnapping, told us about the eightours she held a friend captive and brutally beat her. she had accused the friend of stealing from her. >> burned her on her face. i burned her on her sides. with a 12-gauge shotgun i had pistol-whipped her on her hip. which took a chunk about a quarter size out of her hip. she was disfigured, i guess, you could say. her face, couldn't really look at her and see it was her. >> christina meadows also knew her victim. she and her cousin got into a fight that escalated into a vicious assault. >> i hit her so many times in the same spot, you know, it made a gash from up here to down here. she was 6 foot tall and weighed 350 pounds. and i was about a buck 30. i did so much damage they said that i had to have a weapon, which i didn't have a weapon. when you hit somebody repeatedly over and over, especially in your head, it's thin skin, it's going to eventually bust open. but when you're hyped up on drugs, you're capable of anything. >> hitting her with just your hands? >> yeah. hitting her wi

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taylor, cnn, new york. >> thanks for watching today. >> let's go to christine romans live in new york for "your bottom line> hi, guys. i'm christine romans and we are live this morning. did you notice anything different when you woke up? we didn't think so. but the forced spending cuts are here. washington calls it the sequester. should you be afraid? it's not armageddon, but it is the opening credits of a very scary movie. here's the horror story the white house is telling. a world more dangerous than it was yesterday. >> what the sequester does, it uses a meat cleaver approach to gut criminal investments. >> the cuts are indiscriminate, some are frightening. less oversight and fewer audits of some nuclear facilities, hampered counterterrorism around the world, fewer food inspections, higher risk of wildfires. fewer hiv tests, a more dangerous border. but it's a horror story not everyone is buying tickets to see. >> i think that the president needs to stop trying to scare the american people, that absolutely, you can cut less than 3% without all these awful consequences. >> reporter: maybe so, in which ca