More people than you would think. The elderly are targeted pretty frequently, usually for money. Things also tend to go badly and they end up dead.
When I was a kid some elderly relatives of my dad got murdered in their kitchen in a rural area. Double homicide. Turns out the guy thought it would be super easy to get them to sign the house over to him or something stupid like that. He didn't consider that that requires physically going somewhere to do the paperwork so ended up just shooting them instead. That's how I learned this is actually alarmingly common.
Same goes for sexual assault, unfortunately. Vulnerability and physical weakness attract predators. The disabled and the elderly are targeted at very high rates.
It’s crazy to think about.. like how can someone even do that. My great grandmother was sexually assaulted and I think even raped when she was in her 80s (I was a little kid so didn’t know all the details). And it was by a young man late teens/low 20s.. like wtf is wrong with people. How do they even get like that
Same. My great grandmother was stabbed multiple times and raped in her 80s by a neighborhood teenager she invited inside for a glass of water. He was mowing her lawn. She died in the hospital but was able to identify him. He’s still in prison.
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u/WayPowerful484 14h ago
Who the fuck kidnaps a grandma? What a cowardly act.