In the Name of the Children Quotes

“We see the same thing in what psychologists have defined as battered woman syndrome, a form of PTSD where women (or children) who live under the constant threat of fear and violence may develop “learned helplessness”—a state in which they resign themselves to a fate that seems inescapable. This makes it very hard for them to get themselves out of a bad situation. We’ve also seen this with kidnapped children who don’t flee their captors even when they have a chance because they’ve lost the sense of having any control over their lives. This state has even been created in animals during experiments with electric shock. When the animal comes to believe shock is inescapable, it stops doing anything to avoid it, even when given the opportunity to do so.”
― Jeffrey L. Rinek, In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators

“kept attending these meetings throughout the rest of my career. And in all those years, I’m sorry to reveal, I never encountered a true pedophile (someone with a fixed sexual attraction for children who acted on that attraction) or a sexual sadist (someone for whom sexual excitement is tied to inflicting pain, suffering, and humiliation on others) who was rehabilitated.”
― Jeffrey L. Rinek, In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators