I haven't felt this disturbed since I saw Silence of the Lambs. How many other missing children are alive out there (or down there) somewhere wishing police would leave one less stone unturned?
Presumably they'll show pictures of the victim at some point, but I wonder when that will be allowed. I doubt she'll opt for a life of anonymity, so some acquaintance will eventually let a journalist know...
My guess is she'll be hard-pressed to earn a living with the developmental retardation that has resulted. Presumably there will be a demand for movie rights or at least book rights? I hope so because she's got a hard enough road to follow as it is, and a life of poverty isn't what this poor gal deserves. I wish the captor could have spent the rest of his life cooped up in a cell, with occasional conjugal intrusions by Bubbah. But at least he didn't manage to escape for long before he gave up. What a JERK.
Knowing that the police can never look EVERYWHERE (unless they are operating under a totalitarian State) and even so they wouldn't have the manpower to do so, Socialist countries in particular will point to events like this as justification for instituting mandatory RFID chip implantation in newborns. They will cite the enhanced cost-effectiveness of so very many otherwise human-oriented tasks and the usual bleating of "if it saves even one child's life...."
Then the pervs will just line their dungeons with lead sheeting and go on about their business.
I think that just about the only way to stop this kind of thing is to radically overhaul the criminal justice system so that it's not only dramatically swifter but for cases like this, torture be implemented as well.
In the meantime, hopefully children will travel in groups more often. It's so sad that people must change their behaviors because of a few sick individuals, but this is what happens when there are so many freedoms coupled with a comparatively 'humane' (lax) criminal justice system. I don't think that this kind of garbage goes on in Singapore, but you get flogged for chewing gum in Singapore as well. As long as crime exists, we will always have to strike a balance, and oftentimes the balance is not perfect.
Presumably they'll show pictures of the victim at some point, but I wonder when that will be allowed.
It may take some months for her to get a healthy appearance again, and in the meantime she will most likely feel embarrassed about herself.
I doubt she'll opt for a life of anonymity, so some acquaintance will eventually let a journalist know...
You never know....I think that the people who clamor for an opportunity to get onto the Jerry Springer show and tell the world about their problems and dysfunctions are a tiny minority....I'm guessing that an experience like this will cause her and her family to be very careful about any publicity that is allowed....it's such an utterly devastating thing, after all.
My guess is she'll be hard-pressed to earn a living with the developmental retardation that has resulted.
Perhaps, but she may surprise us all in that regard. She had the strength to survive this ordeal, and so she may have the strength to overcome many of the scars. But I agree, it will be a very hard road and she deserves our prayers and kind thoughts.