Woman Missing Since 2017 Rescued From Motel

KRON4:
"GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) – A woman who disappeared in 2017 has been reunited with her loved ones after police located her in a Michigan motel, the Michigan State Police said Thursday.

The woman, who was not identified, is now back with her family, police said.
In a thread on X, MSP said the woman managed to call her stepmother earlier this week, telling her she was being “held against her will” at a motel in the Detroit suburb of Inkster.
Detectives were able to track her to the Evergreen Motel, where “a girl was heard screaming and crying from a motel room,” MSP said.
“Troopers made forcible entry into the room and recovered her,” MSP wrote.

In a search of the motel room, the MSP said officers found drugs, guns and multiple cell phones. Police said they also identified a suspect, though a spokesperson for the MSP’s Second District said no one was in custody."

While the woman is said to have originally left voluntarily as an adult, things obviously went off the rails in the intervening seven years.  It's not clear why she couldn't leave the motel room, if she was restrained, on drugs, or in poor physical condition.

This just goes to show the slippery slope, how hard it can be to draw the line between a victim and a criminal.  When did domestic violence turn into turning someone out?  When did her drug problem make her a criminal and a fugitive, and when the plot twist again?  What turn of events made her again see herself not as a criminal or fugitive but as a daughter worthy of being helped and rescued by the police?

I'm extrapolating here, based on what I know of other girls who have been turned out by boyfriends.  I don't know that that's what happened to her.  But I can see her going through multiple phases of believing/not believing she would be helped.

I'm glad she got away.  I wish her all the best.  I wish they could all get free.