@ Kidnap victim found because of Unsolved Mysteries

[pixy0stix]

An Illinois girl vanished with her mother 6 years ago. Now a teen, she was just found in North Carolina - www.cnn.com/2023/05/16/us/kayla-unbehaun-found-north-carolina/index.html

[lucybrown]

This is amazing. I had no idea that show still exists.

[sonrisa]

I wonder how she feels about this. Non-custodial parental abduction is so ugly and messy.

[pixy0stix]

May 16, 2023 15:58:29 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

I wonder how she feels about this. Non-custodial parental abduction is so ugly and messy.

I wonder, too, but not enough that I want her life disrupted more so that we find out, kwim? What did her mom tell her? Did she realize she was kidnapped? Etc.

[sonrisa]

May 16, 2023 16:03:29 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

May 16, 2023 15:58:29 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

I wonder how she feels about this. Non-custodial parental abduction is so ugly and messy.

I wonder, too, but not enough that I want her life disrupted more so that we find out, kwim? What did her mom tell her? Did she realize she was kidnapped? Etc.

So true. I hope she is able to find peace.

[fernweh]

May 16, 2023 15:34:08 GMT -5 lucybrown said:

This is amazing. I had no idea that show still exists.

It’s a reboot - on Netflix. There is 2 or 3 season.

I’m happy for her dad. I hope she is happy as well.

[wise_rita]

It blows my mind that people cannot be found in this day and age, when using their real identity.

Do you have a job? Government benefits? Drivers license? Bank account? School enrolment?

They knew exactly who they were looking for. How could they not find them?!

[tacokick]

May 16, 2023 16:31:10 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

It blows my mind that people cannot be found in this day and age, when using their real identity.

Do you have a job? Government benefits? Drivers license? Bank account? School enrolment?

They knew exactly who they were looking for. How could they not find them?!

A girl I knew in HS was abducted by her mother when she was a child and she didn’t know until her childhood neighbor ran into her on vacation and saw her with her mom. She was an eighth grader and had been gone for about six years?

She said her mom got out of needing a lot of paperwork for her by lying to schools, keeping her home, moving a lot and didn’t take her to the doctor.

Her mom did jobs like waitressing and cleaning where people paid her under the table.

I think it would be harder today but since states all operate like little independent countries and the country is so big I think must be difficult to track people down if you don’t know where they are at all. And we all know the police don’t solve crimes.

[pinkdutchtulips]

May 16, 2023 15:58:29 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

I wonder how she feels about this. Non-custodial parental abduction is so ugly and messy.

This is what would keep me up at night bc it happened in Miss R’s dad’s family once and knowing how much pain it inflicted, I was routinely threatened with it.

[sonrisa]

May 16, 2023 18:14:51 GMT -5 pinkdutchtulips said:

May 16, 2023 15:58:29 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

I wonder how she feels about this. Non-custodial parental abduction is so ugly and messy.

This is what would keep me up at night bc it happened in Miss R’s dad’s family once and knowing how much pain it inflicted, I was routinely threatened with it.

((hugs))

[eport]

May 16, 2023 16:17:48 GMT -5 sonrisa said:

May 16, 2023 16:03:29 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

I wonder, too, but not enough that I want her life disrupted more so that we find out, kwim? What did her mom tell her? Did she realize she was kidnapped? Etc.

So true. I hope she is able to find peace.

The fact that we have seen no reunion videos/pictures/media outside of the father asking for privacy (via statement, not in person press conference) I hope is a good sign. While thankful and giving a statement, there has been no reunion circus.

Thanking the public is good, since the public helped find her but not parading around as a victory and dealing with stuff privately is a good way to start.

[krystee]

I am in IL and read some more detailed stories, and she only lived with her dad for a few months of her entire life, so I doubt this feels like a big, happy reunion for her. (Not to say that her mom should be allowed to kidnap her! I just think this is one of those complicated stories that may not be a perfectly happy ending tied with a bow.)