DragonChaser said:

He kept them chained and locked up, and in separate rooms.  He beat the crap out of two of them regularly, one more than the other.  Eventually, especially when kidnapped so young (the oldest one had some type of mental disorder) you sort of give in to captivity, like Stockholm syndrome.  He would sometimes pretend to leave, and if the girls made noise or tried to leave their rooms he'd beat the fuck out of them.  So it becomes a "Is he really gone?" sort of thing.

Apparently this last time he mistakenly left part of the house unsecured, which is what allowed the one girl to get to the front door and scream for help.

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liononfire said:

so sad..  situations like this have become the norm in the US now.  If you miss the news for 3 days, you know when you go to watch it on the 4th, something terrible most likely happened somewhere in the nation on one of those days.  It's sad that when there's been a "situation" where 2 or 3 people are killed, it doesn't even make national news anymore. 
Things are getting shittier every day

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koods said:

liononfire said:

so sad..  situations like this have become the norm in the US now.  If you miss the news for 3 days, you know when you go to watch it on the 4th, something terrible most likely happened somewhere in the nation on one of those days.  It's sad that when there's been a "situation" where 2 or 3 people are killed, it doesn't even make national news anymore. 
Things are getting shittier every day

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Not really. When you have 230 million people, a lot of fucked up shit will happen - doesn't mean it's the norm.

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