Blog 7

I was watching some videos on YouTube and somehow I stumbled upon some Dr. Phil videos.  I came across an hour and a half long video of a girl who was kidnapped by a much older man for about a decade. She told her story to Dr. Phil and the audience about the time she got kidnapped and after when she escaped.  She was fourteen years old when she first met the guy who kidnapped her.  He worked at her school and the time when she skipped a class he made a move on her. After that move they just met up more often and she began falling in love with him. She also didn’t have good relations with her family in the first place either. She said that her father never shown her any attention and that he was always occupied with a girlfriend. She said that the man made her feel special and wanted, something that she never got from her family.  The man devised a plan for her to run away from home and live with him instead. She was still young and depressed so she did go with him.  In about a week in at living with him she said that he claimed that he owned her and started to sexually attack her.  The fear and hurt that he put into her forced her to stay with him and surrender to him. He became like a god figure to him. He became a person that no matter what she could not disobey and go against. So she could never run away and the farthest she ever went was to the bus stop. She was forced to stay in a small bedroom and could only use a bucket to relieve herself and tried her best to collect toilet paper whenever she could. Even when she got extremely sick she couldn’t go see a doctor since she could never leave the house. She said that she even had to memorize the steps to take so that she wouldn’t make any creak sounds through the floor. She was just brainwashed from such a young age that she just couldn’t rebel or run away. He always told her that no one misses her and that no one’s looking for her. He just told her that she was the only one that cared and that he saved her from her depressing life and that he gave her life and that she should be grateful.  One day she just broke down and spilled her heart out to someone and he helped her escape. She called for help and they came and with that she was free.  She was brave enough to share her story with an audience but the memories still haunt and torture her.