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Originally Posted by jtee
My guess is that it is similar to the batter wife syndrome, which is psychologically complex in that women stay in abusive situations even when they have many opportunities to leave.
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She probably did at first - she said she'd only talk if they protected her from contact with him.
It also says he drugged her when he kidnapped her and took her down there -- she probably fought time and time again at the beginning and eventually realized there was just no way for her to get out of a windowless, soundproof room with a keyless door.
She probably eventually submitted simply because he had all the power. He could deny her food. He could turn off the water supply and the electricity. He could bring down her greatest fear and release it into the dwelling (rats, a tarantula, etc). After that first baby was born and he took it, he had that threat to hold over her head to - that he'd harm the baby. That he's start to rape her daughters as he did her.. Plenty of ways she could have killed herself and escaped that way, but otherwise, sounds like not so much so..
I can see her position. What I can't grasp is her fathers. How can you be such a horrific slime, and go on to lead a perfectly ordinary life otherwise. How long must he have been plotting this before he drugged her? How did he get food, etc down there w/o being noticed? Before the first girl was a teen, how did he buy teh daughter feminine products without fear of being seen doing so?