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\nComment by Diana regarding Jaycee\u00a0on 02 Sep 2009 at 9:51 am<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
Dear Karen,<\/span><\/p>\n
As a woman who suffered so could you give any words of comfort to all those who may wish to rush in to help Jaycee with all that she suffered being kept captive for eighteen years. I heard she cried when her abuse was arrested. I don\u2019t understand why she cried for someone who stole her child hood? Can you explain how you felt when you heard her story? What advice would you give for her therapists? Thank you, Karen! Your wisdom and faith are an inspiration to me.<\/span><\/p>\n
Diana, OK<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Dear Diana,<\/span><\/p>\n
I’m sorry to hear the awful\u00a0news about what happened to Jaycee. I felt nauseated. \u00a0I can empathize with her. \u00a0Being kept prisoner while being controlled by one’s abusers is something that is not only horrific but incomprehensible. \u00a0It’s my hope that Jaycee will be given the best of care, a slow and steady treatment by one individual therapist, and not be the subject of too many.<\/span><\/p>\n
Whether removed from one’s home or abused in one’s home, the victim lives within her own mind, a prison that keeps one from trying to escape. \u00a0Maybe I could’ve\u00a0run away if\u00a0I only knew\u00a0more? \u00a0I’ll never know. \u00a0Many questions continue to cloud my thoughts. \u00a0Who would’ve believed me? \u00a0Where would I have gone? \u00a0How would I have known what to do? \u00a0And what would the consequences be if I told someone? \u00a0Fear kept me paralyzed. \u00a0I believed my abusers’ threats of killing my brothers, my mother, and me. \u00a0I believe Jaycee may have felt that same way. <\/span><\/p>\n
Jaycee did what she had to do to survive. What started off as intolerable abuse somehow became a tolerable way of life for her. \u00a0I believe she had to let go, accept a new sense of reality, and stay compliant to her abuser in order to survive. \u00a0It’s a very complex coping mechanism.<\/span><\/p>\n
Please, to all concerned, do not overwhelm this woman or her children. \u00a0Allow her privacy to heal in peace. \u00a0Time and again she will need help. \u00a0Please be patient and not make her the subject of your humiliation. \u00a0She is a victim of abuse. \u00a0There will be no immediate answers. \u00a0Don’t ask. \u00a0Remember she was eleven when abducted, not yet a woman, not yet even a teen. \u00a0I understand. \u00a0Hope all of you will, too.<\/span><\/p>\n
Give her a chance to breathe, for the first time in a long time.<\/span><\/p>\n
Thank you.<\/span><\/p>\n
Karen<\/span><\/p>\n
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