I read a news story about an 8 yr. old girl who had been raped and abused and put in chains and after a week when her attacker left the car for a moment she got the key and unlocked herself and ran for help, while you have Elizabeth Smart, 12 yrs. old, who timidly stayed with her kidnappers even out in public.
2007-01-15 07:53:00 · 16 answers · asked by Raven 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
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2007-01-15 08:01:07 · answer #1 · answered by astro 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one can answer that question. No two kidnappers are the same. In Jessica Smart's case, those people tried to make her one of their own. Most cases result in murder. There are always questions when something like this happens. I guess the bottom line is how strong the child is. If the child is smart enough and strong enough to "outsmart" their kidnapper, then they will survive. Not all cases leave the child chances like Jessica Smart had. Most cases the abductor restrains the child and commonly use chloriphorm to knock out the victim. The only thing we can do is teach our children the best we can about not talking to strangers. I have also taught my children self defense. In this day, everyone needs to know how to defend themselves. It's very helpful. We can't explain why the sick people out there do what they do. We can only try to prevent it from happening to one of our own. Thank you and GOD bless.
2007-01-15 08:01:51 · answer #2 · answered by cookie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First there are, of course the technicalities, either you are able to run away, or you can´t because the kidnapper leaves no opportunity. Then if some people decide not to run away, and there are plenty, they suffer from ´´Stockholm Syndrome´´, a frequent mental disease among people who are being kidnapped. Its effect is that kidnapped people begin to feel very well of their kidnappers, because they are so dependend on them. In Germany in such a recent case a woman who had been held hostage for years even went skiing with her kidnapper.
2007-01-15 08:02:18 · answer #3 · answered by londres2424 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am sure there are many sources out there written by child psychiatrists and social workers that cover this. I truly doubt it has much, if anything, to do with intelligence and more to do with what they think they need to do to survive, how they have read their kidnapper and how they were raised...................It is a very interesting topic. You see the same phenomenon in adults too.
I am aware of Stockholm Syndrome, but I am sure that is not the only thing that would justify not trying to escape in certain situations.
2007-01-15 07:59:29 · answer #4 · answered by woodthi32 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some are afraid to get caught after attempting to run away. Others prefer to risk getting caught. However, each situation is different. Like, for example, Elizabeth Smart might have been threatened with a gun in case she ran away.
2007-01-15 07:58:15 · answer #5 · answered by gsuk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stockholm Syndrome.
I think by the time Elizabeth Smart's kidnappers took her out in public, she was already pretty brainwashed. Also, there were two of them and they could have apprehended her. Perhaps she was afraid that he would do more terrible things to her if he caught her. You'd have to ask her, I guess.
2007-01-15 07:57:14 · answer #6 · answered by drshorty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it has a lot to do with your upbringing. I would imagine that children involved heavily in religion are more likely to fear their captures long arm as they are conditioned from their introduction into church to believe in supernatural "things." I say this because I was basically abducted as a child and I put up with the abuse in fear of what could happen to my parents if I told. I strongly believe that had I not been taught to fear unreasonably as I was in the Catholic church, that I would have said something and my life would have turned out dramatically differently. As it is, I had no childhood. And I can spot evil almost instantaneously, though I have allowed my opinion to be swayed as it was when I voted for Dick Head Bush.
2007-01-15 08:07:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
In some cases it all about opportunity. In some cases the child is so tramatized by what has happen they can be blindly lead by fear. There is no wrong action for the child that has been kipnapped. The only fault is in the person that has created this situation for them.
2007-01-15 07:59:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fear, and something called the Stockholm Syndrome where hostages begin to bond with their abductors. I'm not a psychiatrist so I can not intelligently explain how this happens.
2007-01-15 07:57:01 · answer #9 · answered by crazyhorse19682003 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stockholm syndrome
2007-01-15 07:56:38 · answer #10 · answered by iroc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋