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How a man used printer paper and hand sanitizer to escape an alleged 20 years of captivity by his stepmother (edition.cnn.com)
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Both sides of his door had been secured with plywood and a lock, the man would later say, to stop him from getting out.

For years, he’d only been given two sandwiches – egg or tuna salad, or peanut butter – and a small amount of water each day, he’d recall, in the storage space where he was held.

what-the-hell

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[–] CommCat@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The most extreme case was Genie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)

This story is a bit odd, the boy wasn't a small child like Genie, he was around 14 when it started and had siblings that knew of his ordeal. He wasn't developmentally stunted like Genie was, yet it lasted till he was 30yrs old.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Genie's story is devastating. This shit haunts me

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

CW for that wikipedia article: the R slur is used quite a bit

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's not used as a slur though.

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Great! I still take psychic damage every time I read it and I'm certain many other people do as well. I think there should be some kind of warning for said content in this article because of that

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Okay.

What's the most respectful terminology to use in its place? "Mentally handicapped"?

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Probably. I don't know what is the "best" terminology here. That literally doesn't matter. It's a slur, regardless of how it's used. Slurs need content warnings

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

like with the holes on the sides?

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The man had two adult sisters who did nothing "fearing retaliation".
What kind of massive coward do you have to be to see your brother locked up since the age of 12 and to his 30s and say or do nothing because you're scared of your mom.
Bullshit I say, they're complicit. Everyone who didn't report this or try to stop it is culpable.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What kind of massive coward do you have to be

I shouldn't have to say, but being able to cut out your family members out of your life is a luxury that some people just can't afford. Like in some areas, "burning a bridge" with your family is a pretty quick way to earn the ire of the surrounding community for breaking the unwritten rule to them.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Their brother was locked in a room for 20 years. If you let that happen to maintain a relstion with your mom (Who is doing it), you are complicit in the crime. It's that simple.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Abuse can twist a person's mind to do things that are unthinkable to someone not in that situation. Not justifying the sisters, I don't know anything about their relationship to the mother, but to me it sounds like recriminating a victim of abuse for not leaving their abuser. It should be easy and straightforward, but abuse makes it not so.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't really care what it sounds like to you, leaving your brother to rot in a cell for 20 years is abuse. It would be one thing to not leave when abuse is happening to you, it is another thing to ignore and by doing so participate in the abuse of another person for 20 years.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's really easy to say that you'll do the right thing when you're sitting comfortably in an armchair. Honestly I'd bet you most of us here would be just as much of a coward in your words if we were put in the same situation.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I know for a fact that I would stand up to an abuser parent on behalf of a sibling. But that's not the standard I'm setting. I'm setting the standard of giving someone a 20 year runway to do literally anything to help out their imprisoned brother.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Before I get any further on this, I want to know if you lucked out on the parent lottery or not.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

LMAO are you really going to try and imply that "It's cowardly or complicit to not do something about someone locked in a room for 20 years" is a position born out of never having suffered any abuse, just pure privilege talking. Well it isn't, I can assure you.

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Every day I become more and more convinced of the need to abolish the family

I really need to read The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

[–] LiveLoveStalin@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

The future generations should be raised in common. Children shouldn't be subject to the cruelty and idiocy of two tyrannical dictators. Moreover we currently offer no guarantee that children are provided food, shelter, or even a meaningful education. They hold our future and we treat them as beggars.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What do you mean by abolishing the family?

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

They probably mean in family in the capitalist sense where a patriarch enforces a rigid, gendered hierarchy and social reproduction exists as devalued labor supporting capitalist production

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Though I wonder what the stepmother was doing deeper-sadness, he got out at least, thank Simonaque.

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

All that’s been alleged, her lawyer told reporters Wednesday outside court, is “absolutely not true.” “Ms. Sullivan is presumed innocent,” Kaloidis, her attorney, told CNN in a statement. “The warrant details allegations that must be proven at trial.”

Police executing search warrants found plywood and a lock on the door to the man’s room, the affidavit says.