Me either. It seems like teenagers are in charge there. Adults with a teenaged mentality. Or lack of education. It seems clannish, clickish, ignorant people in charge there. Very unprofessional.
You know the kinds of people in danger there are mostly wealthy Mexicans who can pay ransoms, wealthy Americans who drive through with expensive trucks or cars, people involved in the narcotrafficante world, drunken tourists and young women who live in certain border towns that are totally controlled by cartels.
There are many places where people can live and travel through safely, depending.
I posted a couple of recent cases of white Americans hiding out down there, raising kids for years, even decades.
I'm with both of you. I'm scared but wouldnt be surprised to hear some landowner found a car with two bodies in it, frankly.
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Its limitless really where they could be. In a few of these types of cases the perp fled to California with their victim. In some they went to Mexico and some stayed in the state camping on someone's property or fled to remote western regions you have to hike deep into.
I don't see a pattern we can rely on.
Isn't off the grid not relying on public utilities or things like the internet?
I don't think that's putting your family ahead of your country. At all. I think it's leaving your kid in the hands of a dangerous predator. It wouldn't be safe. It wouldn't be smart. It wouldn't protect her. It sure wouldn't be legal.
Even if some parent thought it was okay to leave their kid to be victimized endlessly by a child molester, the law would never allow it. It is flat illegal. And to me not rational or reasonable in any way.
I know some cannot or refuse to understand. It it is illegal in this country and is abuse for a 15 year old girl to be "mating" with a 50 year old man. Now maybe in Yemen or Afghanistan that stuff might fly. For the most part, not here.
I think it is clear this child was coerced, manipulated and victimized. She was vulnerable having been previously abused, not socializing well in her first year of public school and with low self esteem. She was exploited by this dangerous predator and also threatened by him as the recent filing demonstrates. She was confused, frightened and conflicted. It is odd to me that in light of the facts we know of this girl and who she is, some continue to insist or insinuate she is no victim.
