Kidnapped as A Child: Why I Didn’t Return

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4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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From February 21, 2007: Child abduction survivor, Todd Bequette, shares his experience of being kidnapped at age 13 and held captive for 18 months. He opens up about the abuse he suffered, the guilt he feels for recruiting other children and how this experience affected him. Elizabeth Smart’s father Ed discusses what happens when an abducted child returns home. Plus, President and CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Ernie Allen, discusses laws that need to change. Todd Bequette died of a heart attack in 2013.

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0:00.0	Through 25 seasons, 4,561 episodes, I believe the Open Winfrey Show was one of the greatest classrooms in the world.
0:10.0	I really never thought of it that way.
0:12.0	The AHA moments, the breakthroughs, the connections, the occasional ugly cry.
0:18.0	I'm missing so terribly, I'm missing every single minute.
0:22.0	The LOLs, the moments that matter, the eye-opening light lessons.
0:28.0	Never allow them to take to somewhere else.
0:31.0	I'm bringing them back!
0:33.0	It's time to open the vault.
0:35.0	I've personally chosen these classic episodes to share with you again.
0:40.0	Every single person you ever will meet shares that common desire.
0:45.0	They want to know.
0:46.0	Do you see me?
0:48.0	Do you hear me?
0:49.0	Does what I say mean anything to you?
0:52.0	You are listening to the Open Winfrey Show, the podcast.
0:59.0	They called it the miracle in Missouri when two boys were found alive,
1:03.0	one missing for four days, one for more than four years.
1:07.0	There's been much debate, lots of talk, speculation, the press, about why children don't run from their abductors.
1:15.0	When it seems that they have and did have a chance, you're about to meet a man who is enraged by all of these conversations and all of these questions.
1:25.0	And more than anyone out there talking about it, he has the right to be outraged.
1:30.0	I was 13 years old when I was abducted.
1:34.0	I went to school that day in 1974.
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