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Yea, don't think that's it:
There's something about this that doesn't add up.
Honestly I think you just need to stop assuming a kid in this situation is going to react logically. I guarantee she just wanted to contact someone she knew and she had an old friend from school on among us and used that. Also, for the people suggesting email, it's actually a lot harder to make an email these days than you'd think. Especially on the services that most people know about.
I'm not making any assumptions, though you are since you didn't read the article (this was someone the met in Among Us), and you are assuming I'm victim blaming (could he some off-the-wall coercion). I know nothing of the situation, or the child, but 500 days as a 16/17 year old is not a normal kidnapping. I.E. something does not add up.
I did read the article, but unlike you I have reading comprehension.
She contacted them in a lobby. It does not state that is where they met. They used the lobby chat to talk and exchange social media handles. She likely had to make new ones on this new phone to use. Nowhere does it state they did not know eachother before, but the fact that the teenager was able to contact her mother, as the article also states, implies to me that they had some sort of connection to her prior to the kidnapping. Perhaps I am wrong about that but nowhere does the article say otherwise.
You are very much crashing out right now btw. You don't seem to even realize that @isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone is not me. And your reaction to me saying not to assume a kid in this situation would react logically is to get offended that I'm accusing you of "victim blaming". When all I'm doing is pointing out that kids don't always do things the way we might expect since they don't have the life experience we do.
Take a breath.
Uhhh, maybe read the title and subtitle? Met is pretty defined.
oh i do see that in the subtitle now. My mistake there.
We're obviously not talking about "kidnap and ransom" case here. We're talking about someone being sex trafficked. They were not holding that girl for money.
No, we're not, this is you assuming again. The article states a single abuser, and has kidnapping in the title, thus my description. Please just read the article.
I did read the article. I also have common sense. This clearly seems like a man abducted a girl to use as his sex slave. Kidnapping does not imply a ransom. No ransom was mentioned. And really, in 2026, one person is not going to be able to pull off a kidnapping and ransom. There's a reason they almost never happen anymore; there's just too many ways for the kidnapper to get caught in the process of contacting the victim's family and actually collecting the ransom. Today, kidnapping and ransom only really happens in places around the world where the police are in full cooperation with the gangs, like in cartel-held regions of Mexico.
The reason the situation seems odd to you is that you're fixated on this being a kidnapping and ransom. This was a case of sex trafficking. It's the only explanation that matches the fact pattern:
The most likely explanation is a man kidnapping a girl to keep her as a sex slave in his basement. If there were any ransom attempt, there would have been a huge manhunt, and it would have been a huge media circus. You don't think we would have heard about a 16 year old (likely) white girl being kidnapped and ransomed? The media lives for that shit.
This was just derived from the article and common sense. But I went ahead and did some more searching. There are other articles out there with more information. For example, this one.
Sounds like sex slavery to me.
Yeah. She was trafficked. A monster abducted her, held her in his basement, and tried to force her to be his "wife." He's literally being charged with both kidnapping and sexual abuse. Have a little more common sense.
Oh, you're a bot. Nice focus on ransom, a thing you said, not me.
Also: sex slave != sex trafficking. Very different crimes.
You're a very silly person.