Why Woman Says She Remained Friends With Man Who Abducted Her Daughter

Mom of actress Jan Broberg, who claims she was abducted twice as a child, explains why she continued to have a relationship with the man who took her daughter.
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[@drsylvietourigny5428]

How naive was the mother the second time around? To have your child abducted once is bad enough, but twice??

[@simonasweet9085]

By the same man 😡😞😏 you kept that man in your lives like wtf

[@CCRider-if7mw]

This mother is totally in denial. Good grief.

[@johnmcmanus2447]

"He took my daughter, but i loved him! I didn't think he'd do anything." A grown man takes your child. Without you. Red...flags...flying.

[@nikolel.213]

I feel like the parents deserve negligence charges aswell and the mother said they were intimate in the Netflix documentary.

[@kimpedersen5708]

both the mother and the father had sexual relations with robert

[@naebonnie]

He was intimate with mother and father.

[@peaceangel-rl2hf]

The parents are sick in the head...they knew what they were doing, he was a sleaze and they handed their child

[@jennyoneill8879]

He also went after other children in the neighborhood but those parents put a stop to it

[@tanyahorula1060]

She gave him her daughter. No one is that stupid.

[@LittleLulubee]

Right, she’s playing dumb to look innocent on TV

[@monicagingerich3514]

What? Even like 40 50 years ago? Things were different back then.

[@Freya1412]

@@monicagingerich3514 it wasn't that different. There was another family in the neighborhood whom Robert tried to infiltrate and groom their young daughter ( I believe her name was Cathy) but the family recognised the behaviour as predatory and ceased contact with him. They knew enough to protect their daughter. Also Robert told the Broberg's he has experienced attraction to young girls in the past and that he was getting therapy for it. He told them that he had to sleep in the same bed as Jan alone and all night as part of his therapy and they allowed him to sleep in their 12 year old daughter's bed 4 nights a week. The parents each had sexual encounters with Robert as well. He made lude and inappropriate comments about the wife to her husband and they allowed that. They admit Roberts infatuation and attention towards Jan was disturbing right from the beginning ( their own words, it's was disturbing) but they allowed Robert to continue this disturbing attention towards their 12 year old daughter. My mother is around Jan's age, and we are South African. She was appalled and really in disbelief that these people didn't know about predators in the 70's. In our 3rd world country we knew guys like Robert existed. They even said his behaviour was disturbing and he told them he has attraction to small girls. These parents are sick. They knew what was going on and they let it happen so they could continue their own sexual relationship with Robert.

[@oswaldosanchez5256]

Trust me that guy was a mastermind pedo, he tricked BOTH parents I couldn’t wrap my head around till I knew they both had a thing for the pedo themselves but what I don’t get is the therapy sessions he had W HIS NEIGHBORS DAUGHTERS LIKE WHY NOT YOUR DAUGHTERS WHAT DIES THE NEIGHBORS DAUGHTERS HAVE TO DO DO WITH ANYTHING

[@TheCc064]

Never heard of Maternal instincts?

[@sdsurfgirl60]

And now the mom works with kids. Cringe

[@catweimann9653]

These parents make me feel so gross

[@monicagingerich3514]

Why the hate? Come on all these comments are hateful towards the parents!! This was like 40 50 years ago so many things were different back then!!

[@mariamonroe1974]

@@monicagingerich3514 like common sense? there's been other kidnapping charges back then too but the parents pressed charges and put the perpetrator in prison

[@Gray-ss1st]

@@mariamonroe1974 thank you it doesn’t matter what time it was, they knew what they was doing, and that mother was jealous of her daughter, that no matter what she did that man would only have eyes for a daughter, they are sick parents

[@bellerain381]

“I had a heartbeat for him” That is cult-like devotion and so sick!!!

[@danielhainline8882]

It's like the cultists who follow Jim Jones or those Trump supporters who think Trump is like God or Jesus.

[@zeeschelp]

why did you?? hide that?? isn't that obvious

[@ryder4508]

Her eyes still light up when she talks about him. 😅

[@jessonthecase]

And be smiling and trying to act like we villains cuz we ain’t buying it

[@jennyoneill8879]

They took her to a doctor and the doctor claimed that she wasnt abused at all... yet she was everyday

[@priceccp]

Right. Odd.

[@JW-uy2on]

He was probably bribed or had some ties to the church. The guy had a high position in the Mormon church.

[@MOne-ps2sg]

Yes! This whole story I feel is bogus! There's no real evidence out there and one story contradicts the next.

[@itsallfunandgamestil]

The parents belong in jail

[@jennyoneill8879]

Even as a child I had better common sense then this women

[@cathyabrahamse1929]

I was brought up in the seventies i new if a person touched you in the wrong way it was wrong my mother would have protected me till the ends of the earth she is not a mothers.... She was considering only her infatuation with this man.

[@JW-uy2on]

She says here they were never physical, yet in the documentary, she clearly stated that they had "intercourse."

[@MegInWhispers]

for 8 months!!!

[@constancebulger7173]

And the husband.

[@MOne-ps2sg]

Exactly! There is much omitted in google searches! But what's out there is contradictory! He supposedly committed suicide in 2005 then other things say 2020. Also didn't know Jan has been an actress since the 90s. None of it makes sense and I haven't seen any documented court records etc.. only what they say..

[@LittleLulubee]

No excuse for such willful ignorance 🙄🙄

[@MOne-ps2sg]

Wait! She says nothing physical happened?!? This is contradictory of the whole story! Dr. Phil! Please!

[@deeayeveeeyees]

"i blame myself for what happened to her"...umm..yea because it was your fault! geez!

[@skinsciencebymira]

Ahh yes, when someone is “livid” when I make parenting decisions and take action to protect my child my response is to cave immediately that makes sense 🙄🙄🙄

[@mamacakes6039]

This lady is as careless as it gets . She’s a careless mother is what she is . She should blame herself ! I mean Jesus how dense can someone be

[@monicagingerich3514]

Blame herself? I’m sure she does but goodness no one should ever tell someone rose to blame themselves Come on. It didn’t make anything better by blaming oneself

[@Lil_tro_Vert]

@@monicagingerich3514 hope you don’t have any kids

[@monicagingerich3514]

@@Lil_tro_Vert r u kidding me? I love kids and that ain’t gonna happen. What makes you say that?Im gonna be teaching my kids about Jesus and I’m gonna be teaching them not to blame themselves because I know how damaging that has been to me.

[@monicagingerich3514]

Imagine if you would have been in her shoes 50 plus years ago. You’d fall for it to. Back then it was completely different. Guarantee certain people think they’d do things way better but they don’t know what it’s like so they are just putting the blame on the victims. Come on the guy was the one that was one to put blame on.

[@monicagingerich3514]

@@Lil_tro_Vert but i definitely wouldn’t fall for that now. Like I said things are completely different nowadays.

[@anneninteyzesininyeğeni]

Idk this woman sus

[@angelaoduro7892]

This whole story is something out of a backwards and upside down written twilight zone book. In other words, CONFUSING! The laws of sense, wisdom, and rationality don’t apply in any way from beginning to end. Poor Jan, I pray for continual healing, sanity, and peace 💕

[@donnamills79]

This is just sick

[@Realfrenchie]

Do she think we are stupid, she give her daughter to that guy and she was not abducted..

[@coconut2184]

That woman is crazy bruh

[@shenastallworth1943]

She pissed me off how are you that naive uggh!! 😒😒😒

[@LegionOfShrooms]

Even after Netflix she still likes him?

[@user-or9yx6bh9u]

Oh my lord this.....women she so proud 🥶🥶🥶

[@CAPITALLINDA]

The whole entire universe should know, if a stranger is obsessed with your child, file a restraining order. Especially if they've already kidnapped your child and REQUESTED MARRIAGE DOCUMENTS.

[@kimmancha4314]

in the Netflix film, the mother has relations multiple times with the abductor ... ? did she finally confess or ?

[@DancingSoul514]

The ignorance of it all… smh 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@diane4488]

My sister of 14yrs old was sexually abused by my mum's boyfriend, and the police said they couldn't arrest him, because my sister was likely to be 16yrs old, by the time it came to court! They just weren't interested. True story.

[@jessonthecase]

Twice this is no coincidence and now she a social worker where was the social worker when Jan was being took twice this is disgusting in my opinion. No I can’t turn a blind eye and say both parents was helpless no ma’am and my grandmother said back then you did talk to your child about stuff it’s the parents way of raising that was off in my opinion And why is she a social worker with that background. She didn’t even know what to do my grandma said they didn’t hVe the word pedo but they knew right from wrong no one is that crazy I’m sorry

[@mshael.mshael5919]

Yah right a man take my teen daughter for over a month and i don't know what was happening.... She's most be safe because you knew she's his wife in your opinion... The sad thing about this in most Arabic countries this is legal a grown man can marry young girl as long as her legal guardian approves 🙂🙂🙂

[@peaceangel-rl2hf]

Textbook definition of a bad mother

[@kathleenprice9955]

How old was she

[@jenniferwilliams5478]

12 then 14😊

[@kimmyfreak200]

excuses excuses excuses excuses.....

[@tudy7487]

I'm sorry for Jan only because she was a child and a victim...But the parents not so...they seem like the lights are on but nobody is home...😵‍💫 Like seriously listening to her speak is like something is missing in her....missing a couple of cans out of the six pack. 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@kingsarran5428]

What state is iaho ?

[@angela5802]

This man was a master manipulator the parents didn't think there best friend was doing anything wrong with her times were very different people were more trusting in the 1970s.. Jan and her family were all manipulated by this man and I feel so sorry for all of them who went through this ...

[@Easystudying]

There's a lot of things that doesn't make any sense. I am not defending Berthold actions but can we just look at the family... Mother was sleeping with him Father was in a gay relationship with him He was giving advice to both of them (about their marriage and they were listening) after kidnapping their daughter They didn't do anything after their daughter came home for the 1st time. They just let him talk to her. When she ran 2nd time they report it 2weeks later and her mother was talking to him about their daughter asking him if he wants to marry her after sleeping with him Her mother was (probably is) crazy about him and her father also had feelings for him. And let's talk about Jan... When she was kidnapped for the 1st time,it made sense..she was a small girl, didn't know anything but when she reached 14 i think most of the girls knew what reality and fiction is and she was still believing in aliens.She was writing love letters to him which didn't sounded like they were on mission. She didn't talk about mission. All she was saying is how much she love him, how desperately she wanted to marry him. She wanted to live a life with him like her parents She herself told that her love for him from "like a father" turned into a "love for husband" She loved him when she was 14 or 15. She loved him when she was 16. Don't get me wrong but I think she loved him until some boy (of her age) came into picture and she realized that she shouldn't love an old man and she also told that "he started ignoring her" because she was not a small girl. She was growing and he didn't like it because he had a thing for little girl...so when she realized he didn't love her (at the age of 16-17) she got hurt because she wanted to marry him till then. If he hasn't lose interest in her i think she would have married him. ( I am sympathetic to her because her childhood was ruined and she suffered this horrible thing) Also she and her parents didn't file any report against him after knowing the truth. They hide it for 25+ years and wrote a book. I know it's because of awareness but you don't just write book for awareness,you should get him punished if you really wanted to punish him. I don't know how much truth they are telling but they are definitely not telling 100% of the truth. The family is a mess. The mother was saving her husband's image and the husband was saving his wife's. I am just mad at mother's behavior. She is not normal.

[@missydehart6920]

😳

[@nathayafarrington7774]

Yall do know that this was a different time and back them it was harder to understand what we understand today. Yes the parents should have seen signs but he was manipulative, the mother is thinking that this man is in love with her not her daughter.

[@mikegonzalez5676]

this woman literally admitted to sleeping with bob berchtold in abducted like a few months before this episode lol

[@TheCc064]

And she should blame herself

[@piratesaresexy414]

It didn’t occur to her that her child was taken for sexual reasons when this man took her out of the country and married her?? I don’t buy it.

[@madamwalker9542]

I think this family is sick!

[@sophiazeeshan3150]

She is crazy wheres your daughter