What about the Elizabeth Smart case did you want to know?
The guy who took her made her his so-called wife.
Its not hard to figure out what happened to her. The guy wanted to have kids.
And she was taken at 15. She also had chances to escape. We don't understand why, but I don't blame them.
I think they just learn how to survive, to live from one day to the next. Not really thinking of the future.
I think it is quite possible and even fairly probable she had a baby. Were people to know that, this idea that the man who did this 'is not fit to stand trial' wouldn't wash as it does today.
I also think it is quite possible she went willingly in the begining and then felt compelled to stay as a result of the pregnancy. Please understand that responsibility and blame are two different things. Though sometimes people do hold both.
Lets say for a minute that she, or this boy, were willing participants in the very begining, not understanding fully the long term results of their actions, thus holding responsibility as opposed to blame. Wouldn't it be better to tell people the whole story outright so the most can be learned from such tragedies?
Maybe it is just but a pipedream but I have this crazy notion that more information is better than less information. Assumption isn't exactly the best teaching tool. Seems to me that blunt truth, even when painful and ugly, does alot better job.
as in the Smart case, it really matters little what actually happened....a kid is still a kid...and an 11 yro and a 15 yro are not legally able to make the decision to leave home and take up with strangers....AFAIK of course....