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International Student's Disappearance For International Students

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It is already a common occurrence for International students to study abroad. For most students and their families, safety is the most important thing they care. However, more and more news of the recent disappearance of female students who studying abroad make all students fearful. The article “ 'Nobody saw this coming': Arrest in Chinese scholar's disappearance stuns U. of I. community” is about a missing case of a Chinese student. On June 9, 2017, a Chinese visiting scholar in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign named Yingying Zhang disappeared when she got into a stranger’s car because she just miss the bus. The FBI arrested the suspect Brendt Allen Christensen and be changed with “crime of kidnapping in death”. If the crime is …show more content…

A few months before last year's disappearance, the theme on the forum was "the perfect abduction illusion." The other is about "planned kidnapping." It is inferred that Christensen is likely to conduct trafficking in human beings through the this dark web after Zhang Yingying was abducted. FetLife describes itself as "a social network of fetishism and prostitution communities," emphasizing in an online policy statement that it is a place where consent is given to adults to trade their own advice and images and arrange to meet. A registered member who commented on the Abduction Forum agrees that anyone who engages in this illusion must first give consent. But the man continues: "I like to know that I can do whatever I want to do, and I know very well that once I get them helpless, their life is in my hands." FetLife's community is open and Judgmental, their priority is to create a fun and safe place for twisted people. Dark Web has given many people in the world living in a dark corner of a room so that they can release their own heart of darkness unspeakable through the virtual space, bring benefit sin, while enjoying the anonymity that there is no limit free. Base on “theory of differential association”, the main part of criminal behavior learning occurs in a close personal group.When studying criminal behavior, the content of the study includes the criminal technique and motivation. This kind of dark web is a private space to support Christensen to learn about kidnapping with other

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