While I am working on my Blogs for this week I have the TV turned to an episode of "Criminal Minds". This is a TV show about a FBI team of Profilers. They are out of Quantico, VA and called to different cases based on the severity of the case. What there job is to analyze the information collected and create a profile for what the suspect looks and acts like. This usually happens when there is trouble coming us with a suspect.
The episode tonight was about kidnapping that had been going on for eight years. This couple would cry wolf that they were looking for their child and while the parents helped the wife the husband would take the child. What I found interesting about this case is that they got all of the parents together from the children that had been kidnapped in the eight years and they were there to help. In the end they found the kidnappers, but not all of the children were returned to the parents. Some of the children were killed while being held captive. This drew my interested because of the negative psychological impact this can have on the parents. They were brought in after many had already accepted the fact that their child was gone and given false hope. Then they had to watch as other parents were reunited with their children. I know this is a TV show, but I wonder how many times something like this happens in the real world and what the government does to help these families cope if it does.
Here is a link to the page where you can watch episodes of "Criminal Minds"
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/criminal_minds/
I found this post very interesting. I have to admit I am not much of a fan of crime investigation shows but I do find them fascinating at times. This example goes to show that at least the writers seemingly know they are implementing various psychological factors into the script. If this were a real situation and I had lost a child, I would be heartbroken (pissed, angry, insert other emotions here..) all over again after seeing similar families (in similar situations) reunited with their young ones. This would definitely impact the other adults who are standing around without their child. I can only imagine what the true negative effects are that parents in this situation would go through psychologically (in real life situations).
After reading this blog it made me think about a different case that is similar but different at the same time. I believe i heard something about a soldier being killed during a war and she happened to be in the same infantry of someone who looked similar to her. One family was told that their daughter was dead while the other was told their daughter was still alive. After returning home they realized that in fact the daughter of the family who had been told she didn’t make it was the one alive and the other families daughter was actually the one killed.
I think that it would be traumatic to go through something like this. I dont think i could imagine how the parents of the children in your blog post could feel. I think that it would be mixed emotions happy that some of the children are safe but at the same time grieving for the loss of your child. You also have to wonder if the parents who were reunited with their children felt guilty that their child was okay and not someone elses' child.
There are so many missing child reports each year. You walk into the Wal-mart in Cedar Falls on the Food side and they have a bulletin board full of missing children that they are trying to help find. I think there should be more cops in areas that are heavily populated with kids to stop some of the abductions. I live across the street from Price Lab and i see that they dont let out the preschoolers until their parent is outside the door. I think that this is a great idea. I know you cant do that for every child because some ride the bus home but i think that its a good idea for younger children to reduce possible risks that may happen.Maybe there should be more and harsher laws enforced when dealing with people who abduct children
This reminded me of a movie I saw last year. The movie, Changeling was based on a true story. Angelina Jolie plays the part of Christine Collins, who's son has gone missing. The police gave her a boy, saying that they found her Walter, but he insists that he is not her son. After she spent 10 days in the psychopathic ward, the boy admitted that he was not Walter Collins. This mother never gives up looking for her son until it was found that he was dead. This makes for a very interesting and quite disturbing movie. The full account of the story can be found here:
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72866
This reminded me of a movie I saw last year. The movie, Changeling was based on a true story. Angelina Jolie plays the part of Christine Collins, who's son has gone missing. The police gave her a boy, saying that they found her Walter, but he insists that he is not her son. After she spent 10 days in the psychopathic ward, the boy admitted that he was not Walter Collins. This mother never gives up looking for her son until it was found that he was dead. This makes for a very interesting and quite disturbing movie. This entire story is filled with different aspects of psychology; Christine knows knew the boy was not her son, LAPD refused to listen, the boy who impersonated her son said he was able to adapt to Walter's life by listening to the detective's leading questions, the mind of the kidnapping/killing family are all aspects that need psychological questioning. The full account of the story can be found here:
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72866