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For reference to people who say “4 days isn’t that bad”: Sexual assault can happen in seconds, and that can be a life altering event. Imagine how much assault can happen in in 4 days, even one.
My trauma happened in 10 minutes. I can't even imagine what it's like to endure even 4 days of torture. My heart is broken, I want to protect all of them :(
Once my therapist said to me. “Trauma might have been a few hours or even a few days, but for trauma survivors it is like a million years long. Your brain keeps repeating that event pretty much everyday and you keep reliving which makes it feel like that”
Trauma could also be a few seconds for all that matter. A car accident, an explosion... I've been through a very bad earthquake that damaged my house quite a lot 4 years ago: it lasted less than a minute but I still have ptsd from it
If someone told me “Just 4 days?” I would have responded with “Well, how many days have you spent in a strangers basement getting tortured and sexually assaulted?”
I know right??? Like, excuse me, have you gone through the situation? No, you haven't, so stop pretending like it's no big deal. People can be such idiots.
Sirama This. I despise when people label something like forcing a peck on someone’s lips as sexual assault. Was it not good to do? Yes. But was it sexual assault? Absolutely fucking not. It gets downplayed so damn much that talking about rape even sounds like a joke. People literally use rape as a joke these days, like “don’t turn around or i’ll rape u”. I can’t take it, it’s so fucking insensitive.
Right? 4 days must seem like a lifetime, when you don’t know if you are going to live or die. Being terrified for every single second of that time must really mess with your head.
I've noticed that a lot of other interviewers and documentaries refer to kidnapping survivors as "victims" whereas Anthony refers to them as "Survivors" Mad respect for you, man
"it was only 4 days"... I got sexually assaulted for just under 15 minutes and it permanently changed me as person and made my whole outlook on life different, not only that, my sexual assaulter got ZERO punishment for what he did to me. Imagine getting kidnapped for 4 days and your kidnapper/r*pist/assaulter barely getting any jail time. Even a few minutes can change someone entirely. Stop excusing the kidnappers behavior and realize that no matter how long something occurred, there will ALWAYS be some form of trauma. Edit: I wanna also acknowledge the immense fear women/men face after seeing their kidnapper/r*pist/assaulter. These women are so brave for being able to face them in court proudly. For me personally, he works at my local grocery store so I have to see him all the time. I always feel very unsafe and tense seeing him waltz around as a free man. It was to the point I refused even working at that grocery store because I didn't want to see him.
Was the woman in the story sexually assaulted or beaten. I didn't really understand? Also was the other woman taken into a cell by good law enforcement or people in on her kidnapping I am genuinely confused.
That's exactly what I was thinking! If you've been in a position like that 1 second feels like an hour, an hour feels like a day... it probably felt like forever. I could never understand what that must have felt like for her.
Mr Helo yes the younger woman was sexually assaulted. Beaten r@aped (the word is bleeped in the video because RU-vid will take it down) for four days. She was kept in a torture chamber and tortured physically, emotionally, and sexually. The other woman, the older one, knew her kidnapper. Neither of them were arrested. The law enforcement wasn’t “in on it” when the first describes being rescued she THOUGHT it was someone coming to kill her not to rescue her. The older woman her kidnapper was arrested, and she was allowed to go see him in jail was what she was describing. There’s a whole documentary on her. It’s very sad and very strange. She’s endured so much.
I agree, she was terrified for her life... she knew the day she was rescued that she was going to die.... don’t down play the trauma she went through by saying “only _ amount of days”... the time period doesn’t matter, it was traumatizing and shouldn’t have happened..... PERIOD
When i was 15 i met a girl online. We started talking and she said something along the lines of "we should meet up in person". I was seriously debating it but decided against it in the end. I don't know if this was a dangerous person or if this really was the girl like she said. If my parents didn't teach me about internet safety i'm pretty sure i would have gone. Knowledge is power.
in 2020 i talked to this boy on playstation messages, (his voice sounded maybe 16) and we never really talked much and when locations were mentioned, he said his actual state but i said a general location (north/south/east/west) and i never even specified in what country either but then my father found out and i lost all devices up until the middle of 2021 that time alone was filled with the most crippling depression i’ve ever felt, but it was for the best, i guess
Dude I'm surprised I never got catfished or got in any danger after meeting so many girls thru dating apps. I don't do that anymore but yeah you just never know. So many creeps out there
@@EmmaJohnsonShenanigans I get if he was trying to protect you but I wish he had done it in a more reasonable way. Cell phones were barely even a thing when I was in high school but once they were if you didn't have one you didn't get invited places usually. I wish parents understood to use discipline sparsely and to communicate and watch over your kids. They can't stop you from using the internet as it is intended. Chatting with strangers is a part of a lot of games. Sounds like you were smart and I am sorry you were punished for it. That's not fair in my opinion.
“Do not question yourself. Do not judge yourself. Take your time with yourself. You’ve fallen down before and you got back up. That strength is still in you” Such powerful words to live by. This narrative applies to everyone, abduction survivors or not. (P.S. for anyone who doesn’t know Alicia said this in the video)
They actually made a Netflix documentary about Jan’s story called “Abducted in Plain Sight”. It explores her case much deeper and is honestly so sickening. I cannot imagine the trauma she must still live with...
I thought I recognised her story. wasn't there a whole thing about her kidnapper also romantically and sexually manipulating her parents so they allowed him to abuse her more.
I'm sorry I gotta be that girl! I have it pulled up on my screen rn, and it's "Abducted in Plain Sight" although I guess perhaps it translates differently in other languages? Regardless, if you start searching Jan Broberg, it'll come up in the results so you can find it that way. 😊
TheBananaCat Absolutely agree! I’m sure she has forgiven her parents for everything and in the end it definitely is the perpetrator’s fault. But I cannot get over the fact that her parents were so passive in the whole situation, due to their own emotional dilemmas, that they failed to protect their own daughter from that sicko. They even allowed him to share a bed with her!
I gasped when she said it was 5 hours long ride. I thought it was way too long of a nightmare, and then she said that some people would come up to her and have the audacity to tell her that 4 freaking days is "oh not so bad?!!!!" SMH some people are insane! I want to thank these wonderful women for sharing their stories, and possibly preventing a similar situation. They've been incredibly strong
That “only 4 days?”, annoys tf out of me. Like okkkk there is a reason anyone found is found in a short period, bc any longer and they’re usually dead. SHE IS LUCKY, and 4 days is a long time and a scary time Don’t ever belittle someone else’s trauma
I haven't been kidnapped, but I have been a victim of brutal abuse, sex trafficking, torture, neglect, and a list of other things. And what I gotta say for those who wanna victim blame and for those who want to minimize or degrade all of us who went through those traumas and traumas of all sorts, walk in our shoes for the amount of years, months, hours, even minutes of the trauma we've faced. People need to be aware of these things and need to be taught how to avoid being in these situations. These girls are heroes in my eyes. They deserve every inch of respect. They are trying to make a difference for this world by talking about what they went through and teaching kids and adults how they can avoid these experiences. These women are brave. They don't just speak for themselves, and they don't just speak for other survivors of kidnapping, but they speak for all of us who went through some serious trauma and are our voices. For that, I thank them very much.
I can’t imagine what it’s like to actually be kidnapped. I already get a bad feeling in my gut when I see somebody walking behind me in the dark. But actually being taken is... I can’t even describe the thought of it.
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The fact that there are people like this just walking around and torturing and kidnapping people and only getting a few years in jail actually really bothers me.
Honestly though people like that are a reason that I get paranoid at night thinking "What if someone kidnaps or kills or even something worse" people like that also make me sick.
It's fucking disgusting how, for example, drug dealers can get life in prison, but people who kidnap/r!pe get less than 2 years. Like both are bad but one is significantly worse and is not taken seriously enough in the jail system
That's why so many people do it, they know there will be almost no consequences 🤷🏻♀️ the system doesn't give shit about us and nobody is willing to protect us we have to change something
@@kerrycook233 yes it is you would want to die at that point if your getting tortured for 4 days straight and it is not that bad to not be kidnapped at all.
@@kerrycook233 based off of your spelling, you’re most likely 6-9 years old. How would you feel if you were tortured, abused, sexually assaulted, and more without knowing when it’s going to end? Even if it’s 10 minutes, it’s still terrifying.
Stupid people: ONly fOUr dAYs Could be just me but I’m pretty sure any amount of time spent being tortured in a basement is too much time spent being tortured in a basement.
Exactly I couldn't even imagine an hour of torture. Torture is torture either way and people who think "4 days" isn't bad should learn that so much can happen so easily in such little time
Jan’s story infuriates me, not because of her! She was a child that was innocent & trusted a man that gained the trust of her & her family. She was kidnapped TWICE, by the same man & there is so much more to her story. Watch her Netflix documentary if you haven’t! Edit: the documentary is called “Abducted in Plain Sight” it was on Netflix. There’s also a book wrote by Jan.
Yeah. The criminal justice system shows it age when it comes to kidnapping and stalking. Especially in Canada. A man in Canada trapped a guy in a greyhound bus and beheaded him while others watched it happen. He is now out of prison.
The guy that got released early after raping, beating, kidnapping, and truly torturing someone, AND he was about to kill her, doesn’t deserve to breathe our air. Just my opinion.
alizasucks for 5 mins even. These horrible people. Thank goodness these people r alive today to tell their tale, since not a lot of people have survived💔
Its disgusting how most people say, “getting robbed is worse than being raped”- Rape is worse because your traumatized by it, it sticks with you, Yes robbing someone is horrible but rape is worse, I know this has nothing to do with the video but I am just pointing out.
Everything that happened is bad to someone in their own way. Doesn't matter what it is or how bad it is. We don't need to compare things that happened to you or that traumatized you. Yes a robbing is bad, and yes rape is bad. The ones that expierenced this know that what happened to them is worse in their own way and to their selfs. I rescued myself from being raped, yes it was absolutely traumatizing but it was traumatizing to ME. Something worse might've happened to someone but, i don't need to compare that. Because that thing i lived through is BAD to me and not to others.
I was almost kidnapped by four men in a black BMW right outside my house on my way home from work one night when I was 17, it was traumatic and to this day as a 22 year old I can’t go anywhere by myself and if a car stops beside me I freak. If it wasn’t for a lovely old man walking his dog who had turned the corner at the right time who knows what would have happened to me. He started yelling at the man trying to pull me in and the dog started growling and barking so they sped off. Such a brave guy to stand up to four men and I’m forever thankful to him.
Imagine going through major rape or sexual assault, and people say," It was for only 4 days. It wasnt THAT bad." It doesnt matter how long it is,it is of the trauma that the victim has
I bet you if you pointed a NERF gun at one of these '4 days isn't that bad' mfers, they would soil themselves. 4 days being tortued is 4 days too long.
*Basics for children online:* NEVER go and meet someone without FACETIMING them first. Meet only in PUBLIC PLACES and never at someone's home. ALWAYS let multiple people know where you're going and TURN ON YOUR GPS. PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT GO ALONE!!
Please don't go alone! Bring at least 2+ people with you and tell EVERYONE where you are going. AND MEET IN A PUBLIC PLACE!!! Meet somewhere where if you ever need to scream for help there would be people around you. And if they ask if you want to go somewhere more "private" RUN
Don’t get in the car with the “parent” of the person you’re supposed to be meeting even if the person is there too because you never know if it is set up and they are a victim too! Meet in a public place with someone else, preferably your parent/guardian!!
I am nearly 21 and recently started unearthing these memories buried deep within me of visits with my great grandfather when I was a child. It shook me to my core because everything they said was very real, I was brainwashed to believe I was the special one and I never thought it was anything bad, but was told to keep it a secret to avoid upsetting my family. So they wouldn’t feel “less special”. I just forgot about it, or maybe deep down knew it was wrong and buried it. I recently found out it happened to a lot of my cousins too, and my little sister so it’s still ongoing. I think this was an important video in all aspects, now I know which ladies to follow for more guidance. It breaks my heart
Let's take a moment to remember all the victims of Sexual Assault and Rape may all the victims that didn't make it out alive Rest In Peace in heaven. And I hope the survivors can find peace in this world. ted bundy's known victims: Lynda Ann Healy Age: 21 Died: February 1, 1974 🙏 Donna Gail Manson Age: 19 Died: March 12, 1974 🙏 Susan Rancourt Age: 18 Died: April 17, 1974 🙏 Roberta Parks Age: 20 Died: April 17, 1974 🙏 Joni Lenz Age: 18 Survived attack: January 4, 1974 🙏 Brenda Carol Ball Age: 22 Died: June 1, 1974 🙏 Georgeann Hawkins Age: 18 Missing since: June 11, 1974 🙏 Denise Naslund Age: 18 Died: July 14, 1974 🙏 Janice Ott Age: 23 Died: July 14, 1974 🙏 Nancy Wilcox Age: 16 Missing since: October 2, 1974 🙏 Laura Aime Age: 17 Missing since: October 31, 1974 🙏 Carol DaRonch Age: 18 Survived attack: November 8, 1974 🙏 Debra Kent Age: 17 Died: November 8, 1974 🙏 Caryn Campbell Age: 23 Died: January 12, 1975 🙏 Julie Cunningham Age: 26 Died: March 15, 1975 🙏 Denise Oliverson Age: 24 Missing since: April 6, 1975 🙏 Melanie Cooley Age: 18 Died: April 15, 1975 🙏 Lynette Culver Age: 12 Missing since: May 6, 1975 🙏 Susan Curtis Age: 15 Missing since: June 27, 1975 🙏 Margaret Bowman Age: 21 Died: January 15, 1978 🙏 Lisa Levy Age: 20 Died: January 15, 1978 🙏 Kathy Kleiner Age: 20 Attacked: January 15, 1978 🙏 Cheryl Thomas Age: 21 Attacked: January 15, 1978 🙏 Kimberly Leach Age: 12 Died: February 9, 1978 🙏 Karen Chandler Age: 22 Attacked: January 15, 1978 jeffrey dahmer's known victims: Stephen Hicks, 18: June 1978 🙏 Steven Tuomi, 26: September 1987 (killed in a rented room at the Ambassador Hotel in Milwaukee. Dahmer claimed to have no memory of murdering Tuomi, yet stated he must have battered him to death in a drunken stupor. His body was dismembered in the basement of Dahmer's grandmother's house and the remains discarded in the trash. No remains were ever found.) 🙏 Jamie Doxtator, 14: October 1987 (met Dahmer outside a gay bar in Wisconsin. Doxtator was lured to West Allis on the pretext of earning $50 for posing for nude pictures. Dahmer strangled Doxtator and kept his body in the basement for a week before dismembering him and discarding the remains in the trash. No remains were ever found.) 🙏 Richard Guerrero, 25: March 1988 (drugged and strangled in Dahmer's bedroom at West Allis. Dahmer dismembered Guerrero's corpse in the basement, dissolved the flesh in acid and disposed of the bones in the trash. He bleached and retained the skull for several months before disposing of it. No remains were ever found.) 🙏 Anthony Sears, 24: February 1989 (Sears was the last victim to be drugged and strangled at Dahmer's grandmother's residence; he was also the first victim from whom Dahmer permanently retained any body parts. His preserved skull and genitals were found in a filing cabinet at 924 North 25th Street following Dahmer's arrest in 1991) 🙏 Eddie Smith, 36: June 1990 🙏 Ricky Beeks, 27: July 1990 🙏 Ernest Miller, 22: September 1990 (Miller was a dance student whom Dahmer encountered outside a bookstore. According to Dahmer, he was especially attracted to Miller's physique. He was killed by having his carotid artery severed before being dismembered in the bathtub, with Dahmer storing his entire skeleton in the bottom drawer of a filing cabinet and his heart, biceps, and portions of his legs in the freezer for later consumption.) 🙏 David Thomas, 23: September 1990 🙏 Curtis Straughter, 16: February 1991 (approached by Dahmer as he waited at a bus stop near Marquette University. Dahmer lured Straughter to his apartment, where the youth was drugged, and then handcuffed and strangled before being dismembered in the bathtub. His skull, hands, and genitals were retained.) 🙏 Errol Lindsey, 19: April 1991 (the first victim upon whom Dahmer practiced what he later described to investigators as his "drilling technique," a procedure in which he drilled holes into the victim's skull, through which he injected hydrochloric acid into the brain. According to Dahmer, Lindsey awoke after this practice, after which he was again rendered unconscious with a drink laced with sedatives, then strangled to death. Dahmer flayed Lindsey's body and retained the skin for several weeks. His skull was found following Dahmer's arrest.) 🙏 Tony Hughes, 31: May 24, 1991 (Hughes was a deaf-mute whom Dahmer lured to his apartment upon the promise of posing nude for photographs. As Hughes was deaf, he and Dahmer communicated using handwritten notes. He was strangled and his body left on Dahmer's bedroom floor for three days before being dismembered, with Dahmer photographing the dismemberment process. His skull was retained and identified from dental records.) 🙏 Konerak Sinthasomphone, 14: May 27, 1991 (the younger brother of the boy Dahmer had assaulted in 1988. Sinthasomphone was drugged and had hydrochloric acid injected into his brain before Dahmer left the youth unattended as he left the apartment to purchase beer. When he returned, he discovered Sinthasomphone naked and disoriented in the street, with three distressed young women attempting to assist him. When police arrived, Dahmer persuaded them he and Sinthasomphone were lovers and that the youth was simply intoxicated. When police left Sinthasomphone with Dahmer in his apartment, Dahmer again injected hydrochloric acid into Sinthasomphone's brain, and this proved fatal. His head was retained in the freezer and his body dismembered.) 🙏 Matt Turner, 20: June 30, 1991 (on June 30, dahmer attended the Chicago Pride Parade. At a bus stop, he encountered a 20-year-old named Matt Turner and persuaded him to accompany him to Milwaukee to pose for a photo shoot. Turner was drugged, strangled, and then dismembered in the bathtub. His head and internal organs were put in the freezer and his torso subsequently placed in the 57-gallon drum Dahmer purchased on July 12.) 🙏 Jeremiah Weinberger, 23: July 5, 1991 (met dahmer at a gay bar in Chicago and agreed to accompany him to Milwaukee for the weekend. Dahmer drilled through Weinberger's skull and injected boiling water into the cavity. He later recalled Weinberger's death to be exceptional, as he was the only victim who died with his eyes open. Weinberger's decapitated body was kept in the bathtub for a week before being dismembered; his torso was placed in the 57-gallon drum.) 🙏 Oliver Lacy, 23: July 12, 1991 (a bodybuilding enthusiast whom Dahmer enticed to his apartment on the promise of money for posing for photographs. Lacy was drugged and strangled with a leather strap before being decapitated, with his head and heart being placed in the refrigerator. His skeleton was retained to adorn one side of the private shrine of skulls and skeletons Dahmer was in the process of creating when arrested one week later.) 🙏 Joseph Arthur Bradehoft, 25: July 19, 1991 (dahmer's last victim. Bradehoft was a father of three children from Minnesota who was looking for work in Milwaukee at the time of his murder. He was left on Dahmer's bed for two days following his murder before, on July 21, being decapitated. His head was placed in the refrigerator and his torso in the 57-gallon drum.) 🙏 Confirmed victims of marc dutroux: Sylvie D., 11, 17 October 1985, (abducted and raped) 🙏 Maria V., 19, 17 October 1985, (abducted and raped) 🙏 Catherine B., 18, 17th 1986, (abducted and raped) 🙏 Élisabeth G., 15, 18 December 1985, (abducted, raped, Dutroux took videos and pictures of her) 🙏 Axelle D., 14 December 1985, (abducted and raped) 🙏 Mélissa Russo, 8, 24 June 1995, (abducted and imprisoned, died of starvation and dehydration, found in Sars-la-Buissiere) 🙏 Julie Lejeune, 8, 24 June 1995, (abducted and imprisoned, died of starvation and dehydration, found in Sars-la-Buissiere) 🙏 An Marchal, 17, 23 August 1995, (abducted, imprisoned and raped, buried alive after being wrapped in plastic, found August 1996) 🙏 Eefje Lambrecks, 19, 23 August 1995, (abducted, imprisoned and raped, buried alive after being wrapped in plastic, found August 1996) 🙏 Sabine Dardenne, 12, 28 May 1996, (abducted, chained by neck for 79 days and raped repeatedly) 🙏 Laetitia Delhez, 14, 9 August 1996, (abducted, chained to bed and raped for four days) 🙏 Confirmed victims of gary leon ridgway: Wendy Lee Coffield (was 16 years of age and last seen on July 8, 1982 in the Tacoma, Washington area. Her body was found in the Green River under the Peck Bridge. The Peck Bridge is located where the Frager Road and Kent-Des Moines Road intersect in Kent, Washington.) 🙏 Debra Lynn Bonner (was 23 years of age. She had been missing since July 15, 1982 from South 216th Street and Pacific Highway South, south of the SeaTac Airport. Her body was found on August 12, 1982 in the Green River near Kent, Washington.) 🙏 Marcia Faye Chapman (was 31 years of age. She was last seen leaving her home near South 188th Street and Pacific Highway South on August 1, 1982. Her body was found in the Green River on August 15, 1982.) 🙏 There are more victims but I couldn't write their names, because I've reached the comment length limit... 😢 And to many other victims, may they all Rest in Peace in heaven ❤️🙏 Note: those are just some of the thousands of known victims of the attacks that has been recorded. Let's add more names to remember, please write them in the comments below and let's remember and pray for them. ❤️❤️❤️
Captors:Hiroshi Miyano, Nobuharu Minato, Kamisaku Jo, and Yasushi Watanabe Victim:junko furuta rip 4th january1989 Edmund kamper(killer,rapist,necrophiliac) Victims: Maude.M.Hughey kamper(grandmother of edmund), edmund emil kamper(grandfather of edmund),clarnell strandberg (mother of edmund) ,Mary Anne pensce,Anita luchessa, Aiko koo,Cindy schall,Rosalind thorpe, Alice liu (this may or may not be accurate as i did not do very deep research)
Please do an episode with mothers/families of missing children that are still missing. You have a huge platform and it would be a great service to do for the families, to get more eyes on their cases.
Yes i agree but it is probably too difficult for the parents/family members/mothers to do this interview as the child is still missing and they may not have healed yet
I looked it up and Alicia's abuser (not even worth saying the scumbag's name, you can find it on your own) had a 12 year old daughter at the time of the kidnapping. I wonder how much trauma she also endured from him. Thank you to these brave women for sharing their stories with us, no one is obligated to reveal their trauma.
Seeing the man that kidnapped Alicia made me feel ill. I can't imagine the mental fortitude she has to move past such a traumatic experience. This shit is so horrifying, I'm glad Anthony did this episode so we could hear their stories.
"Only 4 days" Just hearing her story I felt sick, it felt like an eternity. I cannot even BEGIN to imagine the nightmare those 4 days were. 4 days pass easy in normal life, but damn, when you're going through hell, I guarantee that it's gotta feel never ending.
like people can be killed and raped in seconds, i just don't understand the thought progress which leads to thinking that A. the time it was experienced lessens the traumatic impact and B. 4 full days tortured and raped is not a lot. you'd think people would know better and never say that to a victim of a trauma
what the hell is wrong with someone to say "that's not that bad" when someone was TORTURED, beaten and raped for 4 days straight... and I admire these women so much for getting through it and talking openly about it
I watched the documentary about Jan’s abduction, and I cannot imagine the amount of trauma she’s worked through. Her kidnapper was someone she seemed to look up to, sort of like a second father figure. It’s so important for younger people to know that even if you know/are familiar with the adult, it doesn’t always mean they should be trusted. Thank you for giving her a platform to tell her story to a wider audience. Edited: The documentary is called Abducted in Plain Sight, for those who are asking.
Oreo lol It goes into MUCH MORE explicit detail about what led up to her abduction and what happened afterwards so definitely not for young children or those that might find that content triggering.
Those people who say 'ONLY 4 days?!' Need to be told: '96 hours.blank minutes blank seconds...' I'm sure some people here have stared at a clock in a classroom and said 'Ugh, still 25 minutes?' Anything unenjoyable can feel like forever and with cases like this I couldnt even begin to imagine.
Jan’s story literally sounds like a horror film 😧 I cannot believe there was a recorder, script, deviated plan made over the course of YEARS…she was a fucking child! They were both babies! And my goodness, I can’t even fathom what’s happened to Alicia. To see her thriving and protecting others today is so admirable and inspirational 🙏🏽
more than one person kidnapped and put in an area where their life or sanity is being threatened, with a goal, puzzle, or mission to complete. usually, the kidnapper has been watching the victims since a very young age. That's quite literally a horror fiction trope. That shouldn't actually happen in the real world.
alicias story reminds me of the toy box killer, poor girls, they mustve been going through a lot after these experiences. Being kidnapped is my worst fear ever! My heart goes out to these strong brave survivors.
Had a quick look at Alicia's Insta, and oh my days, she's an actual hero. I'm not joking: from 14 years old, she's made it her mission in life to speak out about internet safety and child abduction. She's studied and got a Master's degree in forensic psychology. She's doing campaigns to get sentencing toughened up for offenders, and doing information films showing people how to look at conspiracy theories about abduction and trafficking with a critical and analytical eye. She hasn't just walked on from what happened to her - she's dedicated her life to making sure others don't go through the same trauma and to saving & aiding those who do. This woman is an actual hero, no exaggeration.
“19 years is not a long time” I felt that. My abuser is in jail for 12 and 3 years have already passed. It’s scaring the hell out of me how quickly it goes
I’m not sure what happened to the comment about going to parole hearings and such but yea I would if my lawyer actually told me when they were. I found out he’s now getting out 2 years early and heard nothing about it until after it was done. And this is military prison. You’d think they would be more diligent with stuff like this but nope
My abuser never got caught because she wasn't much older than me and because it took me forever to tell my dad. She's still free and has had no repercussions, but that little part of me that still loves her refuses to try and get justice. And even if I did try and get her in trouble I'd have no proof.
Jamie Robb-Morrison I almost had a problem like that with my case...it was a really big age difference but we were still in school and I thought I had loved him and not only was I scared but I didn’t want to get him in trouble. The only reason I spoke up about it (4 years after it happened) was because my friend got date raped by him and asked if i could speak up (she already knew cuz he bragged about it)
If I was kidnapped, I don't think I could think straight or even bring myself together enough to try and get out of a kidnapping situation. These people are amazing ❤
I am eternally grateful for both of your stories. You both are SO INCREDIBLY BRAVE, and I am so thankful that this type of information is available for our youth (and anyone else who might learn from it). That type of manipulation is so real and it gives me solace to hear that both of you were resilient and made it out okay. You are both so beautiful and strong and I love to see you both alive, happy and smiling. I wish I would’ve had this type of resource as a child, but it makes me so happy that others have the chance to see past the manipulation by hearing your stories.
I'm glad no haters was like YOU ONLY SAID THAT TO GET LIKES!!!! Because a comment that long she or he was speaking from the heart thank you for that comment
My dad taught me how to pull out someone's eyeballs specifically in case someone kidnapped me at the age of 5. I always thought he was paranoid, but these stories remind me that the threat is real.
You know, this is the second video I watch from this channel (the first one was about the morticians). At first I thought that it would be anoying because Antony seemed to me like someone who would try to make fun of the situation just to keep it "chill". I have been surprised with how sensible and gentle the conversations have been handled so far. Loving it!
I remember a time when I still lived in a small town in Wisconsin near Green Bay, where I was almost kidnapped as a child. I was maybe 7-8 years old, and I was walking down the street from my bus stop. My house was directly down the road from the bus stop at an intersection, near my neighbor’s dairy farm. As I was walking down the road, a man in a white sedan type car slowly started driving next to me. At first I payed no attention, but then he rolled down his passenger side window and started to talk to me. Thankfully at this age, I knew better than to talk or go with strangers, but I did slightly slow down my pace and tried to listen to what he was saying. I don’t remember exactly what he was saying, I think it was something along the lines of “Hey I lost my puppy around here, could you help me find him?”. I knew something was off and I began to pick up my walking speed. However, the man continued driving next to me in pace with my walking speed, asking me the same thing or asking for me to get in his car. I then remember hearing the drivers side door open, and I had a feeling of what he would try to do, so I bolted down the street as fast as I could, not even trying to look back. I got home safely, but I believe the man had tried to follow me home. My parents were not home, but my older sister was, and she noticed that there was a strange man knocking on our door. I was able to tell her about what happened to me, and she called my mom while not answering the door at all. The man left eventually. To this day, the memory of that happening has left psychological scars within me. I think part of my somewhat paranoid disposition and trust issues stems from this one event, along with others that happened as well. At this time, I also was diagnosed with ADHD, so the interaction between the two probably contributed to my current mental health. I rarely talk about this with anyone, in fact I don’t think I ever actually told my parents what happened, at least not in its entirety. I realize in comparison to what has happened to survivors, that my story pales in comparison, but I hope sharing this story will help others in some way, or at least spread awareness of kidnapping.
God that’s seriously so terrifying. It would make me a nervous wreck. These type of stories scare me for my own children . Glad you are safe and your sister was home!!
I also have adhd and I had a situation that was traumatic for me as well thank God it didn't escalated into a worse situation. I hope u get better, you are not alone.
The same thing happened to my mother when she was little. She was walking all alone in her neighborhood when a man followed her. The man then stopped her and said, "Can you help me find my puppy?!" Luckily she ran away.
I have trust issues too because I almost got raped when I was 8 years old (I didn’t know I was getting raped because I was a kid) also because when I tell people this they always say “your doing this for attention” or “it couldn’t have been that bad” so my trust issues got worse and now it takes a lot for me to trust a person
Todoroki•kun I’m glad my story is allowing other people to feel comfortable sharing their stories as well. Trauma comes in all forms and as children, we might carry these memories into adulthood and not realize how they have affected us until we one day realize how they have changed our lives or ourselves as people.
The phrase "At least it wasn't..." or "... isn't that bad" is very close to my heart because my mom was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer (a week more and it would have been stage four) three years ago and people would legitimately say "At least it wasn't stage 4" or "breast cancer isn't that bad" and it was probably the most insensitive thing I have ever seen. My mom went through an immense amount of pain and even though she's okay now, she is still in so much pain every day. DON'T EVER say these phrases to anyone, no matter how easy their situation seems to you because you do not know how deep that pain really goes.
There is no real empathy in any response that starts with the words "At least...". It's trying to add a silver lining to pain and trauma. You can't silver line trauma.
Haleighb 💕 talking about insensitive people, my brother was in a car accident and he and his best friend didn't make it and people told my parents "you're still young enough you should have another child" I feel white hot rage even typing that out. Also, I'm sorry to hear people said that you and your mum, I really do hate people sometimes
@@vnr4_953 then that would be overreacting, people in these situations or people with other traumatic experiences deserve to be upset about it. What if someone got cut in half and you went up and said "at least you're not dead yet". Lord that's disgusting
hi! my name is Elle Lisic. I was on a documentary about Jan Broberg. I played her Little sister Susan. I got to meet her in person and is so incredibly strong for everything she went through. it is called a friend of the family by the way.
its such a sad topic, but its real, and everybody needs to realize they are not just watching youtube, they are basically watching someones life, and the traumatic things they went through, i support you and i hope you know that alot of people watching support you
Jan's story is so sad but what makes it even sadder, she was kidnapped twice by this P.O.S and even after that, her mother was going to leave her husband to be with this guy.
I was almost kidnapped once when I was 11. This is a story I've never completely told anyone, but I need to let it out now. One summer when I was eleven, I was out cycling with my brother, cousin and a few friends in our township. When we were cycling through a back road, I saw this old man, who I frequently see around, carrying a pile of branches and twigs from the place he lived to another location to drop it off. He was really old (around 70 years) and I felt bad for him when I saw him carrying all of that on his head alone. So I stopped the cycle and asked him if he needed help. My brother's and friends kept saying that he's fine on his own and he doesn't need help. But I stopped anyway. The man accepted the help I offered and we walked to the place he was collecting everything from, which was just a few meters away. I carried something and walked with him to the location. We walked about 10 meters then turned left to a road we kids don't usually take cos it has an abandoned house that we believed was haunted. I was scared he would take me to that house but just before we reached the house, he turned into this dead looking place on this right side of the road. Now, all the roads in the township has trees on the side but this side had dead trees and twigs and it was really scary. When he asked me to follow him, I just shook my head. So he insisted and when I kept resisting, he pulled my shoulder. Now this is the part I don't talk about. So I walked about 5 meters into the dried up land, and then stopped cos he kept going. When he saw that I had stopped, he came and grabbed my breast. Now, as I was just 11 and my breasts were still developing, it hurt like shit. That took my by surprise and I just threw all the twigs on his feet and ran out into the road screaming for my cousin (as he was the only one in that group who was older than me so I looked up to him). I started crying while screaming at them to take the cycles and go. We cycles all the way home like we were getting chased. When I reached home, I told my mom on what happened but she didn't believe I was getting kidnapped. My cousin and brother's don't believe it either cos they didn't see what was happening. They still don't believe me to this day. I was young when this happened so I only knew about kidnapping but now that I look back, I know that I wasn't going to just get kidnapped that day. My parents taught me to always be aware of strangers and that put a fear in my head. That fear is the thing that made me run that day. I shudder to think of what would've happened if I didn't have that instinct to run at that exact moment. The only advice I want to give is please listen to your parents when they tell you to beware of strangers. It's something everyone says but it's actually really important. So don't take that lesson lightly. Please.
Kat That’s horrible, I’m so sorry this happened to you. I’m glad you made it out of there. Sorry to hear that your family doesn’t believe you, it probably doesn’t mean much but I believe you❤️
When I here these stories I’m reminded of that little girl who was kidnapped SA and her kidnapper slit her throat and left her for dead in a field but she survived and helped the police find her kidnapper but he offed himself because “he couldn’t stand trial”. I don’t remember her name though.
Her documentary on Netflix called "Abducted in plain sight" gives a lot more detail into the events that happened. I defintely recommend watching for more information on her story :)
it shows alot about anthony as a person that when he spoke about peoples lives after being kidnapped he did a sort of montage for the "newfound drive and aspirations" part but didnt include any pictures or anyone in the negative part so as to not make them look bad for content like many others would
Yes this would be great! Our country got rid of orphanages for better treatment of orphaned kids, but in reality it just swept them under the rug and made people unaware it was a problem. He should also get people who were in foster care until they were 18... to explain how difficult it is to be thrown on the street suddenly (with minimal assistance) straight after Hs with no family and probably not even many friends. This is a really important issue.
Kidnapping is one of my biggest fears and it breaks my heart to see how much they suffered, I wasn’t “kidnapped“ but I was often trapped in a room with my abu$!ve boyfriend for many months every day. It makes me feel better that there are other people out there who have experienced it too. But I hate when people say “you have to forgive and forget“, So, I have to just ignore his touch every time I ever shower, or his glares whenever he sees me?! I hate these people. And “just four days?“ Just. Four. Days. Of. FVCKING. HELL!
This is just so mind blowing to think about. I just cannot imagine. I am constantly trying to teach my kids to be alert and safe as possible but u never know it could be anyone. These women are amazing!!!!
My mom was sexually assaulted as a little girl, they were poor so they couldn’t afford bralettes or anything and she was wearing a little skirt and her older cousin touched her but and tried to touch her all over her body, she was only 9 the cousin was 14…it’s crazy how often things happen..and the fact that she was so terrified and scared that..she didn’t mention it to anyone at the time..I’m sure there’s a lot of people have to go through these horrible things and I feel so bad, it’s true everyone has one traumatic moment in their life..
Yeah, can someone please make one and put a link here? or better can it be to anyone that has been kidnapped immediately gets a lifetime in jail? maybe we should do 500 votes on the petition? i might make one, if I do ill leave the link here in a new reply
Anthony talks to his interviews the same way my trauma counsellor - the first professional I've LIKED _and_ TRUSTED in years - and I just... I thought he should know that. ...Love you, man.
KissMyAspergers you can tell he genuinely does want to educate others and not cause any unnecessary stress/trauma to the people he interviews. shows a lot about his character.
Omg I know! I've actually always thought that he should get a counselor's/psychiatrist's or psychologist degree, he seems super talented and has the empathy and everything
Yess this guy deserves his own show. And I like how he doesn't twist his interviewer's responses to create more drama and entertainment. I mean it is entertaining but it's more of educational for me
it makes me frustrated when such horrible horrible sick people are released into the world from only a few years in prison and given the opportunity to do the same sick things again. it just makes me sick
I was sexually abused and my mom kept me from going to court. I was brainwashed and used by a man who was high up in the military and ran ice cream trucks. I am still so angry I never had my day in court. But my statute of limitations are up and I have to live with knowing this man could be hurting other kids. Hopefully he's too old, but I still worry.
Why did your mom keep you from going? I'm sorry. She shouldn't have forced that decision on you, it sounds selfish. Like she didn't want to confront it with you. But she was probably just worried. Why is there even a 'statute of limitations' for this kind of thing? Anyway, it's not your fault. That law is messed up.
That feeling is what made me need to share what happened to me. The helplessness eats you alive but all you can truly do is keep in mind that their day will come where they will suffer too. Karma is real and I hope he gets what's coming to him. You're strong and brave.
@@floofycat3665 My mom was not a good person either. She had many skeletons in her closet. Thank you for your kind words. I don't know why their is a statute of limitations, but I was told It was when I was 18 from where I was from.
i’m allergic to cats everyone has a different understanding to something, Liking this, seems like your saying “i like what they did to them, I like this” if you don’t understand that then your *pretty dumb*
@@joudmasaad6402 I do believe that there could be people really not understanding what a like and dislike means and that those people don't wanna harm anyone. But I'm also convinced that there are fluffing dumb people just disliking this video on purpose. And we all can agree that this behavior would be dumb (am being nice to only say they're dumb tbh) And please don't try and call each other dumb under my comment. It was supposed to make people smile a bit and not fighting like kids.
Saskia Mel its not about not understanding what like and dislike means, its about having a DIFFERENT understanding of it, not everybody thinks the same, and yeah some people probably disliked this because there jerks, oh and im sorry if I upset you, im just trying to educate them, im sorry, thanks for trying to make people smile :(
I was also kidnapped once, almost the same as one of them. Being raped multiple times everyday for 1 year I was very young at that time I thought it was normal so I went along with it... I was kidnapped around 2 years. This is not a thing to joke about. I just wanted to come on here to share my story to, if this has ever happened to you, please share your story to get help and earn your rights I know it might be very very stressful but it’s like a bandage do it fast then you get over with it trust me I had to do it to it helps, for me at least I got out of depression, I did cut cause I thought it was the way to go if you are reading this you can make a difference you can make a change you can do it. Find help even if it causes somthing, it goes away please you can do it a lot of people do including me.
The fact that people told her 'oh yeah four days that's not that bad' Like it was just four days away from parents. Like oh you just got 'lost' for four days. She was kidnapped scared she'd never see her family again, afraid she was going to die, and on top of that being assaulted and tortured for all four of those days. That's horrifying.
Legit one of the most infuriating documentaries I’ve seen to date. I remember when everyone was talking about how crazy the whole story was & how one guy got away with charming that many people. I didn’t even know there was 6 other girls involved 😣 wtf the justice system failed these families
There's a few documentaries that absolutely enrage me, this was definitely one of them. Jan had every single adult in her childhood fail her and on such a disgusting level. It broke my heart. Any one who can walk out of this kind of trauma and fear alive are incredible!
I am honestly waay too scared cuz in some situations you really cant do anything to save yourself. You can only pray they never happen and live on with that fear
But I have a plan... okay so, we implant a gun in our underarm... when they kidnap us we also have a communication device. The poeple u contact with those unlock the gun and u can use it to blow the poeple to shit.
