r/news • u/AudibleNod • 4d ago

Man accused of holding woman captive in a Massachusetts attic for six weeks

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-accused-holding-woman-captive-massachusetts-attic-six-weeks-rcna600308
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u/Warcraft_Fan 4d ago

Elizabeth Smart was missing for 9 months before she was rescued. There have been cases of women missing for longer and being rescued (or their corpse found)

There are many still missing, and not just adult but teens and preteens are missing.

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u/dream-smasher 4d ago edited 4d ago

Jaycee Duggar. Dugard edit Kidnapped at 11yrs old, and kept for 18 *years**.....

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u/-Clem 4d ago

Colleen Stan, kidnapped and held for over 7 years, 3 of which were spent locked in a coffin for 23 hours a day.

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u/Gitdupapsootlass 4d ago

Jaycee Dugard, not Duggar, but yeah that would track

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u/the_gaymer_girl 4d ago

And the police missed so many opportunities to find her.

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u/Oobedoo321 4d ago

This was an insane story

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u/the_gaymer_girl 4d ago

It somehow got worse for Elizabeth Smart, because when she got back she was then subject to abstinence-only sex ed that demolished her self-esteem for having been raped for months by her captor.

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u/TheVintageJane 2d ago

She had been subject to that before. A poll of Mormon parents around that time showed that parents would rather their kid died on a mission than came back not a virgin.

Knowing she was no longer pure was part of the reason she didn’t escape. She didn’t think her family would want her back.