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kidnapping and ransom<br />

What is it like to be kidnapped?<br />

Anon User<br />

I was kidnapped eight years ago, and it changed me forever.<br />

It's an experience you wouldn't want to wish on your worst<br />

enemy. Thankfully, I wasn't harmed physically, so I can't imagine<br />

what the experience is like for others.<br />

I was out with my mom running some errands, and we returned<br />

home at night around nine in the evening. In our part<br />

of the world, it's common to have a guard (ours was unarmed)<br />

because robberies are common, kidnappings aren't. The gate<br />

was opened by a stranger wearing a guard's uniform — later<br />

we found out it was one of the kidnappers who had beaten<br />

up the guard and was wearing his uniform. There were three<br />

others, and we found them in the house pointing a gun at my<br />

dad's head — his hands were tied, and I can never forget the<br />

look on his face and his body language (total helplessness).<br />

The four home invaders/robbers (at that point we didn’t<br />

know this was a kidnapping) stayed at our place for the next<br />

eight hours, ransacking the place and grabbing anything that<br />

caught their attention (for example they took gold cufflinks).<br />

They were heavily armed and had an AK47 and a couple of<br />

pistols. They also had some kind of drug in a vial and a syringe<br />

which they said they were going to use on me if I didn't<br />

cooperate (that's what they used on our guard after beating<br />

him up).<br />

At the end, closer to day break, they let us know that they<br />

didn't find enough in the house and were going to take me<br />

with them for ransom. They let me change, and I said one of<br />

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