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Originally Posted by Nidge41
I think there's something not right about the recent one in London, I mean how did they manage all of a sudden to use a phone to get in touch with the charity who informed the Police? Why didn't they manage to do it years ago? To top it all off the people have been released on bail.
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They were allowed certain limited freedoms IIRC but no doubt felt totally controlled by their captors having lived in that manner for 30 years. We have no idea if they were effectively 'brainwashed' or just paralysed by fear due to threats to themselves or their extended families for example. I heard the woman from the charity who rescued them say that, IIRC, the only reason they found out was that one of the women heard about them on TV/radio and eventually plucked up the courage to call. Even so, apparently, it took some weeks before she felt able to fully open up about what had been going on and for arrangements to be made to free them.