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Originally posted by The Dark Cloud
I don't blame the government or sheriff's office for this...blame should be entirely placed on her captors.

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Originally posted by Robtard
There's reports that the police where told on more than one occasion that Garrido had young children in his backyard and the police did not investigate there at all, despite him being registered as a sex offender and pedophile.

If so (and I do personally believe it), the local police dropped the ball and should be held responsible, in the very least those officers involved and their supervisors should lose their jobs due to incompetence.

The case has now turned into a murder investigation, as [human] remains were found. I think he had kidnapped; taken other children to his residence and killed them.

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Originally posted by ~The Wickerman~
There were also surprise house checks from his parole officer who never found a thing apparently. He should at least be fired for incompetence.

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Originally posted by inimalist
I have written and researched a bunch about Stockholm Syndrome. Its very poorly defined and has no actual clinical psychological definition, and depending on which stats/definitions you go by, can be in up to 80% of all kidnapping cases, or as low as 15%.

It is more of a media catch phrase than a psychological condition, though it does describe a pattern of behaviour exhibited, to at least some degree, by almost everyone kept in a hostage situation, and in other ways to those keeping the hostages. It is probably best described as the breaking down of highly stereotypical roles that people take during hostage situations, ie: person with the gun is the hostage taker, the person in control, do what they say or die, their survival is also the hostages survival vs hostage is passive, does what they are told, deindividualized, etc.

Going by this and from the reports of hostages themselves, if you want to survive a hostage situation, your best bet might be to try and tell one of the hostage takers a little about yourself. This may break down the way the taker has put you in the role of "hostage" and make you a valuable individual who they would have more trouble killing, vs others who were taken. Though, given how unpredictable hostage takers likely are, this might end in you being made an example of.