Sexual captivity was defined as >24 h in captivity of a sexual nature.
While in captivity, some of the women reportedly tried to disfigure themselves, evidently to lessen their chances of being raped.
If the death of Ms Mueller confirmed, she would be the fourth American to die while in the captivity of Isis militants.
Born in the backwoods of Carolina, he received scant education; fought in the Revolutionary War as a 13-year-old (and was left with a permanent scar on his face after being struck by a British officer while in captivity); and spent much of the remainder of his youth as a notoriously dissolute student.
Describing the duress that the women were apparently under while in captivity, Commander Steve Rodhouse, head of Scotland Yard's specialist crime directorate, said: "Brainwashing would be the simplest term, yet that belittles the years of emotional abuse these victims have had to endure.
That colors the film's antagonists -- Gary Oldman's Dreyfus, a leader of a human colony left alive following a devastating simian flu that wiped out most of the population, and Toby Kebbell's Koba, an ape previously tortured by human beings while in captivity -- in shades of grey recognizable to those who watch television shows such as "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad".
In contrast, 17% of the formerly abducted young men had been given a wife while in captivity; the median number of times they were given a wife was 1.
It's still not clear whether Brody (Damian Lewis), the Marine who was turned into a double agent while in captivity, is innocent or guilty of the terrorist attack on the C.I.A., and he is still mostly absent from the scene.
Eight others were captured by Japanese troops, with three of them later executed and one dying of malnutrition while in captivity.
In 2010 she was sentenced to 86 years in prison for, while in captivity, the attempted murder and assault of United States personnel.
