If a child was to be kidnapped for two years, would he/she normally go to school, or would he/she be forced into homeschooling? Has there ever been a case in which a kidnapped child got into college and changed their life?
What? Are you the kidnapper? Or the kidnapped? Or the parent of the kidnapped?
@brantly No, No, No, this is just out curiosity.
Well obviously a kidnapped student won’t continue going to school because they could escape or report their abductor at any point. And a kidnapper isn’t going to let their victim apply to colleges.
Unless you mean a student who escapes and then goes back to high school, in which case it would be exactly the same except for a 2 year delay in their education.
Actually, there have been parental kidnappings where the non-custodial parent changed names/etc. and kid went to school/etc. I believe there was a thread here within the last few years in which the OP learned s/he was such a person only when it came to time to apply to colleges and the SSN/etc. was bogus. I have no idea how to find it. It’s not at all impossible is all I’m saying.
No one is ever “forced” into homeschooling (well … forced by parents, perhaps, but not by virtue of being a crime victim). At worst, in the scenario you posit, the child might be a few years behind, but there is no reason s/he (with lots of counseling, to be sure) could not resume a normal life. Whatever normal is …
@AboutTheSame Can you send me a link of that thread. What did OP do?
It would make one amazing essay
@HarvardDream101 : It might have been this one: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/18929534
Gotta ask OP, what makes you ask this question? Are you writing a book?
There are two main types of kidnappings.
The first one involves pedophiles. The child is an object (a mere toy) to them so anything their toy needs is linked to ways to control “it”. Food, pain, etc. School is only thinkable if the toy has been so thoroughly brainwashed through fear, pain, hunger, and violent arbitrary reactions, that there’s no risk of denunciation. Most kidnapped kids don’t survive to that stage though.
The second type involved parental kidnapping and may well involve schooling. Illusion of normalcy is indeed paramount in that situation.
This is a pretty morbid question though op. Why did you ask?
I bet OP’s planning to kidnap himself and write an essay out of it.
^That is definitely a new one for the “hidden ECs” thread.
You might be thinking of the thread from November where a Cleveland college counselor and a senior discovered together that the boy had been kidnapped from his custodial parent in Alabama 13 years earlier.
This is such clickbait…
Correct, @siliconvalleymom : The link to that thread is posted above.
The “two years” part is oddly specific.
Either way, I hope OP’s curiosities were satisfied .
Calm down everyone. Not plaining to kidnap anyone. @Merppity I already made my essay, and got my college acceptance. Thanks everyone for your replies.
I don’t know about the waiting 2 years part, but there have been a lot of cases where the kids went to school. There was a family in California they made a movie about “My name is Steven” where the kid was kidnapped and lived with the guy for 5-6 years, and then when the guy kidnapped another, younger, child the older kid contacted the police. It showed that he’d always gone to school. There was a similar situation near St. Louis a few years ago with the police finding the older kid when a new child was kidnapped. The older children were told their parents died or somehow threatened them.
@HarvardDream101 Damn, you missed out on a perfect opportunity.
California case. Steven Stayner was kidnapped as a 7-year-old by Kevin Parnell (died in prison in 2008). He was persuaded by Parnell that his parents couldn’t keep him and the Parnell had been given legal custody of him. When Parnell kidnapped a 5-year-old boy about seven or so years later, Stayner left with the child while Parnell was at work and took him to the police station after trying to find his house. He managed to get his life on track but died in a motorcycle accident (not his fault) at the age of 24. The little boy had a heart attack at the age of 35. Stayner’s younger brother Cary is on death row in California for the horrendous crimes he committed against three female tourists (mother, daughter & daughter’s friend) visiting Yosemite as well as a park employee (if my memory serves). Rippling circles with a lot of tragedy …