In North Jersey, three days before Halloween and 9 days before the elections in 1977, James Comey and his younger brother Peter had a run in with a criminal that had raped young teens in Bergen County.
A man dubbed “the Ramsey rapist” held 15-year-old Comey and his younger brother at gunpoint after breaking into their Allendale home on an October day in 1977, one of a string of break-ins that included the rape of two area baby sitters. The Comey brothers, locked in a bathroom while the intruder searched the home, escaped through a window, only to encounter the man again on their lawn. The brothers ran back inside the house, locked the doors and called police, setting off a massive manhunt.
Comey has said [that episode] taught him important lessons about crime’s psychological toll on victims. He said it affected him for years, though he did not say exactly how.
Source: http://archive.northjersey.com/news/fbi-nominee-comey-was-held-captive-as-a-bergen-teen-1.589446?page=all
Comey has seen all those emails. What happened to that important lesson?
One of the Comey brothers (unnamed), identified the rapist in a line up, but the police did not pursue**any **charges. In fact, the bail for the guy they had in custody was lowered and the police chief put up his own house as bond (ethics, conflict of interest).
A grand jury in 1978 returned no indictments.
No one was ever charged for the home invasion or the rapes.
Sources:
http://archive.northjersey.com/news/fbi-nominee-comey-was-held-captive-as-a-bergen-teen-1.589446?page=all
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/07/the-gunman-the-rapist-the-woodsman-and-young-jim-comey
How many holes can you find in this story?
e.g. How did two teenagers just run back into the house "to call police" when they were confronted outside by a guy with gun?
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DerivaUK ago
This could have created severe mental and emotional trauma. One common reaction to PTSD is psychopathy; devoid of or drastically lessened feelings of remorse or emotion amongst other psychological effects.
NSFW_LeeLee ago
Interesting and contrary to what I have been taught. Please, show me a study saying that psychopathy is common in PTSD sufferers. We covered deviant behaviors in psych class not long ago and I'd like a link to share with my fav professor.
DerivaUK ago
It has long been established that there is a link to early adverse and traumatic experience as an antecedent to later psychopathy and this is found in many early studies including Hare ('91, '93 and later 2000 and '01) and Lykken ('95) to mention a couple, and these are all supported by the fantastic early maternal deprivation and childhood neglect studies by Bowlby ('69, '73, 80) and more recently Carletti and Craparo (2010).
There also exists a wealth of research in the link between severe anxiety (arising from early experience) and psychopathy https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3871837/#!po=16.6667.
However, it was Hodge in 1992 who first proposed early PTSD as an antecedent of adult psychopathy and the premise of a type of causation of a type of addiction to violence http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cbm.1992.2.2.212/full#references Hodge's studies elicited many studies in this area (mainly sampled from prison and offender treatment programmes) for one of the more recent example see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3871837/#!po=16.6667 There is much published out there in relation to this topic although online links for some of the more formative and well known papers are not available for example Dolan and Coid (1995) and Coid (2012). The link between PTSD and military conflict experience such as soldiers from Vietnam and more recently, Iraq and Afghanistan who were later diagnosed as scoring very high in the PCR checklist for psychopathic traits that were not present prior to their combat experiences. My knowledge is also qualification based.
Jem777 ago
It is irresponsible to state psychopathy is a result of PTSD. That is simply not true. And am writing this from a place of qualifications without going into them.
Psychopathology is the result of a variety of factors that can include extreme early childhood trauma but will also include attachment disorders, severe abandonment and a whole host of issues. Even with all of the above children are resilient and do not become psychopathic in most cases.
PTSD is actually being changed to PTSI because it is not a disorder it is considered an injury to the central nervous system. (Fight, flight or freeze) This system gets deregulated to such a severe degree in extreme trauma and repeated trauma that it become damaged and can no longer regulate appropriately again.
What is true though is that male children who have been sexually abused by male suspects are more likely by a significant number of becoming abusers themselves if not helped and also more likely to identify as attracted to same sex partners.
DerivaUK ago
It is one of many hypothesised antecedents and yes, I agree there are often other factors. But not always.
carmencita ago
This is why I have always believed it is so very important to get abused children the help they need. It must be started immediately. They should not have to wait, with time to think, about how no one cares. For if they are not helped they will feel alone and detached from their family and others. I am hoping that there will be centers started for those that have been harmed by the elites and others. There are so many children that will turn to pedophilia if not given the proper care.