Well, duh! I should point out that that isn't the headline on the actual article, but rather the headline as it appears on the "Top Stories" portion of the Netscape home page. Weirdly, the term "psychologically damaged" doesn't actually appear in the article, the closest I could find being this...
"There is clearly a psychological impact that occurred at some point,'' Salt Lake Police Chief Rick Dinse said Thursday. ``There is no question that she was psychologically affected.''
If a copywriter is putting something in quotes in a headline, he shoudn't add words...
This is as good news as one can hope for this long after a kidnapping, though obviously the girl has gone through some form of severe abuse, at least in the form of cult brainwashing (I won't speculate what else, if anything), and she'll be in therapy for years.
I caught a bit of the "live" (the channel on which I saw it aired it on tape delay) special episode of The John Walsh Show, and, unlike the fake happiness of a lot of the people in the news media who are really only happy that they have a new big story to cover (since the war keeps on getting delayed), you can tell that John Walsh was sincerely very happy that the kid was found, since it's the happy ending he was denied with is own son, Adam, 2 decades ago.
There's nothing else I can say about this, really, until some more details are released.
posted by Steve Brandon @ 8:14 PM
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