Abducted Movie 2018

[Pang Murdock]

Berchtoldkept Jan Broberg ensnared in his trap by creating an extraordinarily elaborate ruse involving prerecorded audio messages, a messiah allegory and stories of alien abductions and cross-species mating habits. Sounds insane? It is.

In each situation where their daughter was abducted, the parents waited days, if not weeks, to alert law enforcement. How they were able to escape criminal prosecution themselves baffles me, but that may be due to the lack of laws in Idaho aimed at enabling child abuse during the 1970s when these crimes occurred.

In essence, Berchtold not only groomed Jan, but he also groomed her parents as well. Sadly, during that time frame, no one, including law enforcement, was acutely aware of that predatory behavior and how prevalent it was in child sexual abuse cases.

A large portion of my practice is devoted to trial work, specifically defending individuals from sex crime accusations. As such, I have dealt with various scenarios in which grooming is part of the underlying allegation.

Nevertheless, I understand that some people try to give others the benefit of the doubt. I know some folks are naturally more trusting than others and do their best to believe and rely on candor until they have a reason not to. Sadly, sometimes, that reason ends up being a wound that will never heal.

Adam R. Banner is the founder and lead attorney of the Oklahoma Legal Group, a criminal defense law firm in Oklahoma City. His practice focuses solely on state and federal criminal defense. He represents the accused against allegations of sex crimes, violent crimes, drug crimes and white-collar crimes.

This data story looks into the profile of victims assisted by CTDC partners and who entered into their situation of exploitation through wrongful removal or retention, i.e. abduction. In total, they make up nearly 3% of the victims with data available in the Global Dataset. 67% of them were assisted by Polaris and 32% by IOM.

The typical victim is a single female, between 15 and 30 years old. She's likely to have some middle school or secondary education, and to be trafficked within her subregion of origin. The individuals involved in her abduction are likely to be outside her circle of friends and family. She is mostly controlled by her traffickers through physical abuse. Her exploitation is not likely to last more than one year.

78% of the victims who are abducted into situations of trafficking are women. This is slightly higher than the proportion of women in the global dataset, which is 71% (see The Global Dataset at a Glance dashboard).

Victims who identify as Transgender/Non-conforming and victims whose gender is not recorded are not included in the computations, as there are not enough data for any significant analysis (CTDC partners are working to improve data availability on this issue).

About a third of the victims who were abducted are adolescents between 15 and 20 years old. In the Global Dataset, this age category accounts for only 23% of victims, suggesting that late teens might be particularly vulnerable to abduction, at least among victims assisted by CTDC partners.

For all age categories, women and girls are more numerous than men and boys. This is not out of line with the rest of the dataset, except perhaps for the 9-11 years old age category, in which boys are slightly more numerous than girls (51%). Note also that among abducted victims, girls account for 76% of the 0-8 years old age category, while in the Global Dataset they represent only 52% of this category.

75% of the abducted victims were single, against 46% in the Global Dataset (see here). This might reflect the fact that teens are over-represented among abducted victims assisted by CTDC partners, but may also suggest that single women and men may be more vulnerable to abduction.

The largest education category for victims who were abducted is middle school, accounting for about a third of victims. In contrast, in the Global Dataset, the most common category is technical training, at 24%. This may reflect the fact that teenagers between 15 and 20 are over-represented among victims of abduction.

Nearly 70% of the victims who were abducted were trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation, against 50% in the Global Dataset (see Exploitation of victims data story). Hence, among victims assisted by CTDC partners, victims of abduction are more likely to have been trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation, compared to other victims.

In CTDC data, individuals involved in the abduction of victims are likely to be outside the victims' circle of friends and family (58% of cases). However, they are slightly more likely than recruiters in the Global Dataset to be part of the victims' family and friends (19% against 14% for family, 14% against 7% for friends; see here).

Note also that intimate partners are less likely to be involved in abductions compared to the recruiters of victims who were sexually exploited (15% against 35%, see here), even though most of the abducted victims were trafficked into sexual exploitation.

The means of control that were used on abducted victims are similar to the ones used on victims of sexual exploitation (see here).The most common means of control for abducted victims are physical abuse, threats and restrictions of free movement, while the most common means of control for victims who were sexually exploited are psychological abuse, restrictions of free movement and threats.

In the Global Dataset, 37% of victims were trafficked for over a year. The same number of victims who were abducted is 26%, indicating that abducted victims might be trafficked for less long than others.

Abducted is an enormously brave, smart, original book. Susan Clancy's innovative study of why and how people come to believe that they've been abducted by aliens has become a gripping read, with keen insight into the emotional and spiritual lives of the 'abductees'--and how easy it is for anyone to remember things that never happened.

Twenty years ago I was abducted by aliens, or so I thought at the time. Actually, I had just gone without sleep for 83 hours. Now at last Abducted--brilliant, humane, and funny--gives a scientific explanation for how the mind concocts such remarkable experiences as being probed and impregnated by aliens, visiting the mother ship, or traveling to distant planets. Writing with sympathy and understanding for the abductees, Susan Clancy delves into their stories to offer a superb contribution to our understanding of human memory, mental anomalies, and how the mind works.

Susan Clancy's book bursts out of the chute right on page one and keeps going at full gallop until the end. It's fabulous! Anyone who thinks that scientists are cold and uncompassionate, or that people who believe they have been abducted by aliens are plain loony, should read this book. With warmth, humor, empathy and eloquence, Clancy illuminates the soul of science--and shows why everyone resists its revelations if they challenge our deepest beliefs.

Susan Clancy's provocative study of the abductee population offers a thoughtful perspective on the spiritual and psychological elements of abduction stories--and is so entertaining that it reads like a novel.

[Clancy] provide[s] a discussion of current research into memory, emotion and culture that renders abduction stories understandable, if not believable. Although it focuses on abduction memories, the book hints at a larger ambition, to explain the psychology of transformative experiences, whether supposed abductions, conversions or divine visitations.

If you're going to read just one book about alien abductions, make it this one. And if you think alien abduction stories aren't worth considering seriously, Clancy will convince you otherwise...Clancy offers an intelligent and compassionate look at people whose 'weird' belief usually elicits derision, and argues convincingly for the need to look deeper into its significance.

Having interviewed dozens of abductees, and found them likeable and honest, Clancy writes about them with compassionate but sceptical understanding...Clancy believes her subjects only in the sense that she believes they think they are telling the truth. And she doesn't abandon her sense of humour. She asks why mentally superior aliens haven't anything better to do than hang around North America stealing our genes.

In this informal and entertaining report on her research, Clancy shows that the group of abductees she studied in 2002 were more likely to create false memories in the lab and scored high on measures of fantasy-proneness and schizotypy (personality characteristics that include perceptual aberrations and magical thinking). Despite these traits, with one or two exceptions her subjects were what society classifies as normal. She speculates that an abduction memory, though horrific, is ultimately a religious experience that incorporates contact with a higher power, a convenient narrative that provides an explanation for odd personal episodes, and a transformative event that offers a meaning for human existence.

In this remarkable study of people who believe they've been carried off by little green men, Clancy's subjects are memory, personality and truth as each individual experiences it. Even if the idea of alien abduction is absurd, you will find her work fascinating and revealing.

The study of this belief [that one has been abducted by aliens], unshakable in most cases, leads Ms. Clancy to make some compelling observations about recovered memory, fear, science, faith, reason, the human condition and, inevitably, aliens...Alien abduction is clearly a maddening phenomenon. Nevertheless, Ms. Clancy soldiered on--for the benefit of science, the subjects and now her readers. And apart from some brisk and debatable observations about religion that pop up at the end, she has done all a service. This book is something else.

Clancy is a skeptic who mounts a strong case for terrestrial rather than extraterrestrial explanations, but she does so while maintaining a steadfast compassion for her subjects. The story is told with great humor, often at the author's expense as she finds herself in unlikely predicaments. Despite these lighter moments, Clancy never loses sight of the serious questions raised by the alien abduction phenomenon, nor does she waver in her respect for the abductees. Having concluded that these people are not dismissible as ignorant or crazy, she is left with a more unsettling truth: under the right circumstances, normal people can come to hold very bizarre beliefs...Susan Clancy's study of alien abductees is a natural experiment that explores the outer limits of human belief and serves as a useful reminder of the importance of scientific thinking.

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