Or is it better, as social media does its gruesome hatchet job, to recognize
the apparent hopelessness of the situation, no matter what the facts are, to accept defeat and slink away in silence, as so many of those who are accused seem to do even if the allegations don't seem particularly credible?
Continual confinement, lack of daylight for months on end, hunger, homesickness and
the apparent hopelessness of the situation would all have taken their toll.