[CE] Kidnapping

Kidnapped French woman dies in Somalia

"Marie Dedieu was a 66-year-old lady. She was wheel-chair bound. She was suffering from cancer and from heart disease. She needed daily medication. And when she was kidnapped from the island near Lamu, she didn't have those medications with her," he said. 

A 66 year old handicap woman was taken from her own home in Kenya to Somalia. I do not understand why you would do that. The woman was completely helpless and her health was not exactly in the best condition. I wonder how the people who kidnapped her benefited from the situation. How did she improve their lives? Why would they need to take her away from her home and deprive her from her medication?

I tend to be more careful when I am around older people, just because they are more fragile and sensitive. I would expect others to do the same. I would expect them to at least kidnap a kid or something, whose parents would pay to get them back. On top of that, the general public tends to value the life of children more than that of the older generations due to the fact that they have more years left ahead of them. This makes them feel obligated to ensure that the kids are given the opportunity to live out their lives and experience it for what it is.

Either way, I do not understand why people would kidnap others in the first place. It does not solve anything or improve their lives. They must be dealing with some serious psychological issues.