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She isn't a "Child" but a young adult. She knows her phone number, her address and the city she lives in, she knew where she was, come on in a 20 mile radius. I have a 14 year old! To expect a 14 year old to be helpless you have a mother complex. She wsn't 2 0r 3, or 9 for that matter!

Who are you expecting to be nieve?

Elizabeth was a quiet, intropspective, scared 14-year-old girl thrown into a very, very frightening situation totally out of her experience. She may have been physically abused; we do not know. She was certainly emotionally and psychologically abused. Not all kids are loaded with moxie. By all accounts, Elizabeth was shy, submissive, compliant, and sweet.

As I said on another thread, Hedda Nussbaum in NYC let a defenseless 6-year-old girl (whom she and her boyfriend had adopted) die of a head injury because she wouldn't call 911 even after the boyfriend, who had beaten the child senseless, had left their apartment and stayed gone for 4-6 hours. The child died because her brain swelled during the time she was unconcious on the floor. The killer was imprisoned, but Nussbaum was never punished for allowing the child to die. If a grown woman can be too terrified to help a dying child, even when the attacker has left the premises, then why can't we cut a shy 14-year-old some slack?

In addition, Elizabeth is reported to have said that she was watched at all times. This would not be impossible for two people to do between them. BTW, the incessant insinuations about her family by several FReepers are sickening and based on no evidence.

It's utter nonsense to expect a 14 year old to take total control of her situation when she was being controlled by two adults. She had no money, transportation, or way of knowing which adults around her might help her. She would have been terrified they could kill her anytime they wanted, in SURVIVAL mode and probably scared to death to do anything but follow orders. These were the monsters we all warn our children about and they HAD HER TOTALLY IN THEIR CONTROL.

Anyone who speculates that her captivity was her own fault is an idiot.