Cleveland kidnapping: The women were kept bound with chains and ropes

[Brickbat]

15. As these details come out, it's like some people forget that they are cumulative.

It comes out that the captives were held against their will.

Someone's there to say, "I would have fought and got away!"

It comes out that they were tied up all day.

Someone else says, "With all that free time, surely they could have worked on the ropes."

It comes out that they were beaten frequently, hard enough to cause miscarriages.

Some winner figures there has to be a way that three strong, smart young women could have made some kind of plan to defend themselves.

It comes out that they were fed poorly, raped repeatedly, threatened with death.

For some reason, it's difficult for people to imagine all of that happening to someone every day, day after day, on your birthday and Christmas and the third Tuesday of every month. For years. Through adolescence into adulthood.

None of us can imagine it. It bizarre and sick to question why abused women don't escape their partners -- there are psychological reasons why they don't. When people "just ask questions" or "just wonder" about abducted people in situations like this? It's beyond anything I can understand. Some people just know everything, I guess.