Wow...this is just insane.
Zarathoft
26-08-2006, 05:35
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5285048.stm
Wow, I can imagine that in a movie or something. But I never really imagined something like this could be pulled off.
Here's more to it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5285290.stm?ls
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5284622.stm
Demented Hamsters
26-08-2006, 05:45
Just when you're starting to regain a little bit of faith in humanity, things like this always come along to destroy it totally.
Real shame that the guy topped himself. Being stuck inside a little cell of his own for 20 years would have been a much better punishment.
The Atlantian islands
26-08-2006, 05:47
So...what was the point in keeping her?
Did he use her as a sexual slave? I dont understand.
It seems have just wanted someone to live in his garage...:confused:
Zarathoft
26-08-2006, 05:49
So...what was the point in keeping her?
Did he use her as a sexual slave? I dont understand.
It seems have just wanted someone to live in his garage...:confused:
I was wondering that too but I didn't see if it said why anywhere =X
Just when you're starting to regain a little bit of faith in humanity, things like this always come along to destroy it totally.
Real shame that the guy topped himself. Being stuck inside a little cell of his own for 20 years would have been a much better punishment.
Wait, what recently has given you faith in Humanity?
Liberated New Ireland
26-08-2006, 05:51
Wow, I can imagine that in a movie or something. But I never really imagined something like this could be pulled off.
*shrug* Manhunter and Silence of the Lambs were probably inspired by real cases...
EDIT: I mean, the books they were based on.
Falhaar2
26-08-2006, 06:03
That girl is going to have some MAJOR mental health issues for the rest of her life.
Wilgrove
26-08-2006, 07:24
That girl is going to have some MAJOR mental health issues for the rest of her life.
Ohhhh yea...
Whereyouthinkyougoing
26-08-2006, 14:05
So...what was the point in keeping her?
Did he use her as a sexual slave? I dont understand.
It seems have just wanted someone to live in his garage...:confused:
They don't know yet.
She only escaped a couple days ago. I imagine they have to go *very* slowly on interrogating her. And they definitely won't be giving all the information right to the press just so it can feed our morbid fascination. I mean, she'll have it bad enough to reclaim anything of her life without everybody yapping about every sick detail of her ordeal.
I've repeatedly heard that there was a certain degree of "Stockholm Syndrome", which, considering her initial age and the fact that he was someone she knew before, is hardly surprising.
Insane is the right word for all this.
And literally my second thought when I heard about it was oh my God, as great as it is for her family to have her back, this will be hell for the families of other missing children. I mean, this is *exactly* what they will have had to tell themselves over and over and over can't happen. And now it happens. So now they can have hope again, even though in 99.99% it won't happen.
Horrible.
PS: The very second I'm about to hit reply the radio said she was indeed sexually abused. It seems she said as much to a female police officer. And it seems to have been "consensual" sex. Which, if true, is hardly surprising, considering the circumstances. Or she may just be lying to not speak badly of him.
Demented Hamsters
26-08-2006, 16:42
Wait, what recently has given you faith in Humanity?
the usual - excessive vodka.
10 White Russians (Big Lebowski fan of course) and I start thinking the world ain't so bad. IN fact, I love ya all...hic!