What Is Stockholm Syndrome?

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5. Jaycee Lee Dugard

In 1991 in South Lake Tahoe, California, Jaycee Lee Dugard was abducted by a man and a woman. Although there were witnesses to the abduction, police were unable to find Jaycee who was only 11 years old at the time. She didn’t reappear again until 2009, when she turned up at a police station.

At first, Dugard was defensive of her captors and pretended to be somebody else, but her true identity was eventually revealed. Her behavior in defending her captors has led some to suggest that she was experiencing Stockholm syndrome. During her captivity, she had two children whose father was one of her abductors who raped her regularly.

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