What you consider as thuggery is the reinstating of African Tribal policy that values taking that which others have and impregnating as many women as possible.
It is basic Darwinian survival of the fittest. If you are unfit, you don’t survive or are enslaved
Biological Political commentary
The reason western values work - is because they're based on sane and fair choices AND not on lowlife thuggery. The man who kidnapped this woman is a loser. In a country that functioned "closer to the line" - he would be dead.