Don't forget, he "didn't wake up for 24 hours" (I cracked my head on the road falling off my bike when I was around 10; I woke up the instant my parents started carrying me into the house.) I'd love to see statistics on how long people who get in fights where they are "punched in the head", are knocked out for as a general rule.
Good catch! How would they know her name!
Plus, this joker wants us to believe these kidnappers and torturers said "*Maleah* looks very sweet"? If so, how would the abductor have gotten to Maleah's name? Is DV trying to say these guys seemed so cuddly and friendly, they asked and he answered politely with her name? Did the abductors call her "she" instead? Where are the shreds of realism in this, because "She looks sweet", sounds like something some slick Hollywood "gangsta" would be scripted as saying "menacingly". It's a little too... super convenient, IMO.
More like "hiding out"; but probably. Regrettably, yeah.