I only started reading about this after Abigail was home safe, but it sounds like a straight-out kidnapping with Stockholm syndrome. And, I'm guessing Abbie's captor made her swear some kind of an oath in return for letting her go, so she's conflicted in helping the prosecution.
BBM, Thanks.
While I agree with your initial assessment, on what do you base your theory of Stockholm Syndrome ( bonding with a captor)? And on what basis do we come to the conclusion that there was some kind of 'oath'?
None of the facts of the case lead me to believe that Abby ever 'bonded' with her captor. In fact the family's lawyer said explicitly Abby was violently abducted by a stranger. For many months, she suffered numerous acts of unspeakable violence.
http://www.wmur.com/news/abigail-he...e-violence-lawyer-says/27437382#ixzz3IMqO95am
So where is the 'bonding' in those many months? Where is the bonding during that unspeakable violence?
"made her swear some kind of an oath " While a guess can be useful, on what should we base that guess? And what, do you suppose, was the oath - that she promised to remember his name and show up in court to boldly see him arraigned? Because in the facts of the case that is what she did.
"Abigail Hernandez clasped her hands and fixed her eyes on the lanky man in the orange jumpsuit accused of kidnapping her while she walked home from school last fall, just days before her 15th birthday."
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...ighbors-say/xxTmpK9lpsVN1DfXVgtYoJ/story.html
Or do you think she just tossed whatever oath out the window and this calculating, misogynist, violent criminal was so stupid that he trusted her with an oath after many months of unspeakable violence?
IMO this Nathaniel Kibby was making a statement directed at Law Enforcement with whom he had numerous interactions and conflicts with. This had much to do with his hatred of women and law enforcement;
"Kibby has a lengthy criminal record, including several assaults. Particularly disturbing, Perley said, was an arrest in March when Kibby was charged with criminal trespass and assault after following a Conway woman to her home after a minor car accident. Police said
he pushed her to the ground in her driveway after she ordered him to stop taking pictures of her car."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rnandezs-alleged-kidnapper.html#ixzz3IMwu7xOT
Please read further about his interactions with LE, specifically Conway PD and his view of government and his history of violence.
Perhaps during the trial of Kibby, the criminal, we may find that ABBY had some success in manipulating him to save her own life but I would be hard pressed to call that 'Stockholm Syndrome".
I do not think that she was ever compliant, complicit or sympathetic toward a captor by whom for "many months, she suffered numerous acts of unspeakable violence".
People could not believe she was violently snatched off the street, so what about this?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/harrowing-video-shows-womans-abduction-philadelphia/story?id=26663931
This had nothing to do with Abby and Abby had nothing to do with this. It was all Kibby.
IMO Snatching her in broad daylight, keeping her hidden with such a high profile search, and then boldly dropping her off near home in the same clothes was a bold and calculated statement between he and Law Enforcement. Period.
This post was actually written by my :cow::