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Ditto
I agree with you. We never know what's going on in someone else's home. I noticed that the last time the family were on television daddy had a new suit & haircut & mommy had on make up & a new outfit too. I'm not blaming them but we never know. I also want to know what people tell their own children? I remember being like 6 and my parents rehearsing dialing the phone with me. I knew my home phone number and I knew how to call it. I will say this that boy was 11 years old. Lord only knows what hell he was put through and as other Blogit folks have said children believe what they've been told. It is hard to believe that the child was only 1 hr away from home had a cell phone, bicycle, and had driven a car yet he somehow couldn't make his way home. Interesting, indeed.
posted by
Taffy000
on January 21, 2007 at 9:43 AM
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Stockholm Syndrome
I agree with Scoop; when I first read this, I immediately thought of Stockholm Syndrome. Perhaps the boy was kept locked up at first, but then he began identifying with and became loyal to his captor, so the man felt as if the boy could be given some freedom. I don't really understand it either; I guess it's one of those psychological responses that no one can understand until they've actually experienced it.
posted by
Jadelynn
on January 14, 2007 at 10:37 AM
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lots of questions, and this will prove most interesting as time unravels
it all...
posted by
Rumor
on January 14, 2007 at 10:32 AM
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Corbin the only thing that came to my mind was the Stockholm Syndrome
posted by
scoop
on January 14, 2007 at 10:26 AM
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When my niece was taken
she was told her daddy had been killed. Mind you she was only 6 at the time and her abductor was her mother but kids believe what grown up's tell them.
posted by
bel_1965
on January 14, 2007 at 8:39 AM
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I read this story yesterday...I couldn't really understand
how that guy was able to detain 2 teenage boys for that long. Why didn't they try to escape? So many questions.
posted by
Passionflower
on January 14, 2007 at 8:36 AM
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my question is
why didn't the boy who was there for 4 years try to escape? i would be crawling out the window - maybe home wasn't so homey??? we had a case here in Pittsburgh where a janitor held a student captive for years and one day she just went home.
posted by
ladychardonnay
on January 14, 2007 at 8:11 AM
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This is no
Text book case that's for sure...I hope they give us more information as the investigation goes forward so we can try to understand this...Right now...it makes zero sense to me~
posted by
Offy
on January 14, 2007 at 8:02 AM
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I read this part of the story........
The case recalls the improbable survival of Elizabeth Smart, the Salt Lake City teen taken for nine months by a religious zealot. After her return, many questioned why she didn't flee her captors, despite many apparent chances at freedom.
Stephen Golding, a forensic psychologist who examined the suspect in the Smart case, said captors often establish control over their victims through fear.
"People are led to believe, through someone taking advantage of their vulnerabilities, that leaving is not an option, that things will get worse for them or will get worse for others," Golding said.
But I still don't get it......I would have been to a phone and called the police immediately....
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on January 14, 2007 at 6:13 AM
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Corbin
I have tried to think myself into that boy's situation as an 11-year old - and I know that I would have had to be kept in chains...I simply cannot comprehend this case, it baffles me...
posted by
Nautikos
on January 14, 2007 at 6:00 AM
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Ariala....
First I thought maybe he threatened to harm the boy's parents....
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on January 14, 2007 at 5:55 AM
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Wow...I can see the police were doing their job.
posted by
shelly_b
on January 14, 2007 at 5:50 AM
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Corbin, good question...maybe the abductor fed him lies about his parents
and family that the kid ended up believing? I dunno...this is crazy.
posted by
Ariala
on January 14, 2007 at 5:27 AM
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