Sadly that is true & it is horrific. The huge difference is most people would call the police right away. I imagine KC's logic ( if the above were her story) is that she was waiting for the kidnapper to get tired of Caylee & decide " never mind, kids are a lot of work. "
And that's the whole problem with KC's lies.
Yes, people do steal children- for definite reasons. Rape and/or murder, black market babies, or to provide a child for themselves to raise.
Rape and/or murder= get LE involved immediately because to wait means someone is going to hurt or kill your child. But KC goes about her life for an entire month "searching on her own" without a care in the world. So obviously she wasn't worried about Zanny the Nanny and sister Sam hurting Caylee, even if they did force KC to give her up and threaten her not to tell LE.
Black market baby or to raise the child themselves= you're still dealing with some wacko person who has no problem committing a crime and are therefore not fit to be a parent. And if your daughter disappears into the black market, not only do you have little chance of getting her back, you also have no idea what kind of horrors she's going through. Again, KC was not concerned and acted like she had all the time in the world partying at Fusion before finding Caylee.
KC was so used to dealing with the stupidity of her parents and friends who seemed to believe every word she spoke that she had no idea what the real world was about. Make up a story about how she left Caylee, lost Caylee, had Caylee stolen from her, and her dumb mom believed it. LE is the big leagues- they don't just roll over, wet all over themselves and say, "Okay, sounds about right" and let her go her own way.
For the first time probably in her life KC was called on the carpet for her mistruths. LE went out and discovered the truth about this child's disappearance themselves. And the truth is that Caylee's hair and body fluids are in the back of her car. Caylee is dead and KC did it.