In addition, I believe Leah Croucher was selected by the kidnapper precisely becouse she looks like a schoolgirl many years younger than her true age. She is petite and would have looked like easy prey to any determined abductor.
It is however a great and societal shame that women cannot enjoy the safety and confidence we fully grown men have come to expect when out and about.
I remember a few years ago walking though a dark path at 11am on a Friday night from a concert I had just been to, having spotted a man in the corner of my eye standing straight behind a large tree trunk next to the path in total darkness, I asked the unknown male what he was doing and said he was taking a piss and to .... off!.
He wasn't, and he knew that I knew he wasn't, and that's why he didn't like it and resorted to vitriol against me. Anyway, we walked in different directions until out of sight of each other, but I still wonder what may have come of the situation had I not been a male, and that is what makes our reality so unjust. Why do so many men not treasure women?. It is a question I feel I'll never find the answer to.