It boggles the mind.
In TEN YEARS there was never an opportunity to escape?
Let's just hope you never get to find out first-hand.
Stockholm syndrome sets in quickly. They begin to identify with their captors.
same with Elizabeth Smart. When asked today how she stayed for so long, her answer was very vague. I simply don’t get it.
I know a woman with a checkered past, who had run away from a broken home due to domestic violence, back in the 50s.
She ended up with a couple of brothers in Cleveland on the East side in a house similar to the ones shown in the videos of this incident (different side of town)(they all look the same). Once there, they basically kidnapped her with about 10 other kids. They would be taken out to department stores and told to steal to earn their keep. She told them she just couldn’t do it. Later, they beat her.
Late one night, she was able to escape out a tall second story window into a snow drift nearly naked, and made it across town to a person who had once told her if she needed a place to stay they would help her out. She recovered there, but other events in life transpired.
That happened back when marriage was the social norm and standard family structures were established.
Today, more and more of this type of criminal perverted behavior is likely happening in our midst, without most people realizing it.
Think of how homosexuality in the 80s was fairly well shunned, but today considered just “an alternative lifestyle”. The same type of perversions are likely escalating right under our noses.
People like our present Administration are the types of people who promote this type of behavior, then either remain quiet as it progresses, or clamor about how much they are disgusted by it, but ignore the consequences.
The really frustrating aspect is that the laws really don’t do anything for the victims, nor adequately prevent its re-occurrence. IMHO, the death penalty is warranted in these situations.
We have educators teaching kids in elementary school about homosexuality and sex. Why wouldn’t all Americans expect similar behavior from a very large segment of our society? It’s sick.
I can’t believe it either, the police will most likely get a raise.