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For all the people saying her friends and family should have done something--what exactly could they have done? She's not a minor. It's tragic. I've been a similar situation where I was trying to look out for a friend in abusive situation. Ultimately, my hands were tied, she was an adult and made the decision to stay. This is all part of the cycle of the abuse.

I think it makes us feel better to say the parents should have done x or this is on them. As horrible as it is, this could happen to anyone. Sometimes terrible bad unfair awful things happen. That is part of life. We have less control than we think. [/quote]

IDK what the parents even knew? Like have people heard that she was calling mom and saying - bf and I have been fighting, he slaps me, tries to grab my phone away, push me out of the car etc?? I haven't heard this at all. She's thousands of miles away and all they're getting from her is occasional texts/calls saying - omg Moab was sooo beautiful - and seeing this perfectly curated trip on IG. How would the parents have known?

As for friends, people are saying that they really stuck to themselves and had very few friends. That seems to be abuser 101 - separate the woman from her friends, fill her head with ideas of how bad they are, how she doesn't need them, it's you and me against the world babe. So IDK if she even had any friends that she was close enough with to share that she and Brian were fighting and he gets physical with her. And reality is at 22 with this kind of thing, you'd totally see a friend speaking out to the media - bc they knew something or even just for 15 min of fame. She's only 22 - in normal cases you'd hear from a college roommate or high school or college best friend - oh she reached out to me when she was at X on her trip or we spoke right before she was leaving or whatever, and [b]we've heard NONE of that. We've literally heard no one speak besides mom, dad, stepdad, and I think she has 2 siblings. I think the circle was pretty small and I'm guess Brian had something to do with that.[/quote][/b]

Her friend Rose Davis has done interviews and has spoken! Gabby was supposed to meet up with Rose shortly after Utah. It was planned ahead. You are right that Brian had something to do with isolating Gabby. Rose said that back in Florida, Brian was extremely controlling. eg. He would hide Gabby's id so she couldn't go dancing with Rose. He would pick Gabby up instead of letting her get home on her own.[/quote]

This is old news going back many pages.[/quote]
Yup, but pp says we've heard from no one, so I wanted to correct that little piece of old news[/quote]

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