[Captain Peter Blood]

I am not sure I find Ashley Smith a Hero in the real sense.
I still have to think back to when she had a great chance to call the cops and escape and I think most of us would have taken that chance rather than be alone with a monster like that again.

[paulat]

Oh, for pete's sake....

[torchthemummy]

Thursday-Night-Quarterback you are Sir!

[texasflower]

People under stresses like that do NOT respond the same way as we do sitting here quietly at the end of the day at our computers.

She was under his control not just physically, but probably also in an emotional/survival level that we can't relate to.

Kind of like an abused wife that stays locked in the house when the husband is gone to work, because he tells her not to leave.

Short term intense traumas can cause the same sort of blind obedience for a time.

I don't necessarily believe the whole giving of herself sort of thing as it has been related to us, but then again, that might be what SHE needs to believe about it.

[don-o]

That has been done to death on the board.

[rabidralph]

I think you should change your screen name to Brave Sir Robin.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" I am not sure I find Ashley Smith a Hero in the real sense."

Me neither,
Should Jessica Lynch have forfeited her freedom and run back to her Iraqi captors to read aloud from A Purpose Driven Life ?
Should Elizabeth Smart have done the same thing ?
Once you are the victim of a kidnapping and have the opportunity to escape- take it.
Don't trust your kidnapper and hope to convert him by reading scripture.
You can still be a good Christian by escaping and alerting the authorities to the location of your abductor.

[rdcorso]

I'm not trying to take anything away from Ashly but she had a lot of luck on her side.I give her credit for keeping her head and taking control of the situation but it could have turned out very different if he was a killer looking for a female victim.When a women is being abducted her best chance of surviving is to fight like hell and escape in the beginning.The chances of survival once the abductor gets control of you are not good at all.Being passive was the right thing to do in this case but in the majority of cases being passive will only make the rapist/killer's job easier.