An Abduction to Remember

Kati Kratzberg

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If you feel like you’ve watched some weird shows, think again. A new Netflix documentary called Abducted in Plain Sight has people at a loss for words. The documentary centers on a girl named Jan and her family, the Brobergs. Jan was just 12 years old when she was abducted and raped, for the first time, by a family friend, Robert Berchtold. Robert had taken a special interest in Jan ever since he met her and they often went on a day trips together. On one of their day trips, Robert and Jan didn’t return home the night they were supposed to. Jan’s crazy parents waited several days to contact the police about her disappearance. When the police finally found Jan, she was living in Robert’s trailer with him. Robert lead Jan to believe that an alien race had captured them. The “alien race” told Jan that she needed to have a baby by the time she was 16. Jan believed what she had heard and in order to have the child, Robert would rape Jan and she wouldn’t put up a fight. The craziest part about it all is that Jan’s parents eventually dropped all charges against Robert. To any normal person this would be insane. Most parents would want justice for their child against their abductor. These parents were far from normal though, in fact, not only was Jan’s mother having an affair with Robert, but so was her father. This crazy story has so many more twist and turns than what’s mentioned here. In fact, all the twists and turns make it hard to believe that the story happened the way the Brobergs say it did. Check this documentary out for yourself on Netflix.