Don't you wonder why he didn't call home? I do.
"Don't you wonder why he didn't call home? I do."
'Stockholm Syndrome' would be my guess. He was just a kid. Who knows what his kidnapper told him or threatened him with? I'll kill your Mom? I'll kill your dog? No one cares about you but me?
Maybe there was no phone in the house? Even his employer of 25 years had never been in the kidnapper's various homes over the years.
Prayers up for all kids who have had to endure this. I can't even imagine it.
I think that is a very heartless statement.
If you read anything on kidnapping victims, you would know that is the norm rather than the exception.
The same reason Elizabeth Smart didn't. They were still children when kidnapped and subject to psychological conditioning that would not work on an adult.
Child predators tend to pick their victims carefully. They seldom choose aggressively self-confident and outgoing kids. Likewise, a streetwise kid who has learned to negotiate and survive a drug and gang infested inner city culture is probably a bad bet.
But a shy, naive, dependent, unaggressive kid from a rural or suburban family and community? That's the child predator's natural target.
His perp is a manipulator, understands how psychologically vulnerable his victims are, and is so controlling he is able to as quickly as possible convince his victims that they are not victims but participants, with him. Yet, a deep small voice inside each victim knows something is wrong about that and they also feel guilty for their "participation". Guilt, shame, fear, lack of moral strength and lack of coping skills against the psychological manipulators. The victim's response seems irrational to us because we do not have their pschological vulnerability and are not living through a situation that is most accurately like a horrible dream with all the exits closed (the manipulated guilt and shame have closed them).
I read somewhere that he was told that his parents didn't want him anymore...that they'd given him away.
Also, once a kid's been molested, his misplaced guilt for having participated might make him think no one would want him anymore.
I understand that the psychology of this sort of thing is entirely complex. And we all know how screwy the thinking of a kid can be.
Remember, he was 11 when he was abducted.
NO NO NO NO NO
He's an innocent child staying alive.
No doubt you would have been so much smarter at age 11.
It's best for the media to back off this question. The boy needs medical help, and that should be the focus.
That is like wondering why an aphid does not fight off the rancher ants.
It is like asking why a slave obeyed the master or asking why an Arab woman doesn't slough off her burka. It is like asking why Jews went obligingly to their deaths.
Overwhelming force is the answer. It makes me sad that anyone can even question this situation.