Fusako Sano's case does not count as someone who "just wanted company." He beat and abused her, maybe not sexually but in every other way.
But he was not as sadistic and cruel as for example Castro. He didn't beat her as often - mostly it was when she didn't do something he wanted like this infamous not recording the horse races on the tape, so it did have some reason, even if it was not a good one for mistreating her.
Yes, and he would have raped her eventually when she was "ready" (this has happened in many cases). I know of NO cases where someone was abducted and kept alive for years on end just to "look at" or keep the abductor company without the involvement of violence.
Not necessarily raped, maybe if he came to love her, he wouldn't force her if she didn't want to - anyway, let's be brutally sincere, he was about 50 (not that it mattered in Castro's case, it's very individual), so his sex drive wasn't rather that high as it happens with younger men and it wouldn't get higher in the future during those few years when he would wait for her getting a body mature enough to be attractive enough for a non paedophile. There are known cases of children kidnapped to be raised as the kidnappers' own, without paedophilia involved. Like Carlina White or - if we already are talking about Japan - there was a man in that country who kidnapped a boy before Fusako Sano just to raise him as his son.
Shoaf's abductor was a mentally stunted moron who was not planning for the long term. She was only there for a few days and he was stupid enough to give her his phone. That's a one in a million occurrence.
And here I meant just those very rare incidents - even if they did happen just a couple of times, they did.
Most people who actually go out to kidnap someone take every precaution to ensure they have no access to anything they might use to escape.
But I meant those rare cases the abductor wasn't that careful. In pure theory it could happen - and if I was the victim then, I would do my best to get out then in the way described by me.
Similarly, Tamayo's ordeal, while certainly horrible, only lasted for a few days as well, and he let her go quickly.
Nevertheless he did. Whether it happened soon or not. He did and this is which matters.
There are virtually no cases involving long-term abduction where the offender gave a damn about medical assistance for the victim. In 99.9% of the cases, that would never, ever happen. Tamayo was a very lucky exception.
Nevertheless I was originally talking about those lucky exceptions - if I realized that I was in such a lucky situation, I would do what I said. And if such a guy like those spent a long of time with the girl, it's more likely he would think the girl wouldn't leave him, for he could think she developed an attachment to him.
I didn't say it doesn't happen, but again it's rare. In most cases you would just end up with another victim.
I do know it's rare. And I was talkig about such rare occurances. And knowing there would be still a chance, I would take a risk.
Actually, I've studied criminal psychology for a long time and I just don't think the examples above reflect a real understanding of stranger abductions. I get what you're saying - there are exceptions to every rule, and yes, every case is different. But you can't cite the .01% exceptions as being terribly realistic.
But this is what I referred to - those rare cases when a potential kidnapper of mine would show signs of being just mentally unhealthy and not a sadist - I would try to make a use of it. I think those are the only cases when there would be a bigger chance to let of of captivity rather than it would take place in the case of someone like Castro.
In almost every case, medical issues did not lead to release,
I know, I know. But I referred to just those rare ones - I hope you don't think I would count on the mercy of someone really sadistic, like Castro. Anyway, it was a medical issue that led to the Fritzl family letting out and Fritzl was an extremaly cruel man.
Offenders that are delusional enough to be tricked into thinking you actually want to be there tend to be extremely unstable because they're detached from reality.
Then again, Natascha Kampusch, as it's suspected, did want to stay with her kidnapper, choosing to run away after she turned 18, for she had no happy life at home about which he knew, saying her that he "saved her" from her family. I think a smart person could convince a captor that she would want to stay with him, for she was abused at home, her parents were drinking, her father was molesting her, she was bullied at school etc.
That's why I feel that these types of threads are silly. "I would do x or y in such and such situation" is meaningless because, in all likelihood, you would not.
I would try at least. I wouldn't want to stay with my captor for the rest of my life. I would have to do anything to get out and what else could I try to do?
It's so easy to sit at a computer and say "if I were Shawn Hornbeck, I'd have told the police everything when they stopped me, instead of going home to my abuser."
Shawn wanted to stay with that dude, that's all. He had the net access, he could go wherever he wanted etc. I don't believe this boy. Also Elizabeth Smart also seems to me a runaway and not a captive. There were hidden from people interested in this case the proofs she had a history of running away from home, before.
Sadly for people who have survived such ordeals, human psychology is not that simple and real life just doesn't work that way.
I read that the Stockholm Syndrome in most cases is a myth, it was proved recently it happens rarely.
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