Look, I'm not going to argue that there isn't such a thing as a statistical anomaly.
On the other hand, we don't stop the presses every time a child is struck dead by a bolt of lightning, or drowns in a bathtub, or gets run over by a Mack truck. [And no one in this country seems to give a damn that a child is murdered in its mother's womb about once every thirty seconds].
But every time I see one of these child abduction stories, I just get the sense that they don't feel right. In the Danielle van Dam case, you had the parents smoking marijuana at sex parties, and the Mom flirting at night clubs with the guy who eventually murdered her daughter. In the Elizabeth Smart case, you must have had something really screwy going on in the Smart family for that girl to choose life as some sort of a sex slave in a homeless guy's paranoid delusional fantasy of a religious movement over returning to life with her own family [she had multiple, documented opportunities to make a run for it, yet she consistently chose not to].
Elizabeth Smart did what it took to stay alive. She could've made a run for it. However, if she had chosen the wrong time or the wrong circumstance, she could've ended up with a knife in her back or a bullet hole in her head. Instead, according to her father who was on TV tonight, she's playing the harp and happily living the rest of her life. Good for her! She truly is a smart girl.
I don't believe Elizabeth had many - if any - chances to escape in the first few days when she was tied up in the hills behind her neighborhood. I believe that's when the raping began and the twisted "marriage ceremony" was imposed. For you to have the indecency to suggest Elizabeth chose to be the guy's sex slave just indicates to me there's something "really screwy" going on in your mind.