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The facial expressions of these children are described by some [[intactivists]] as after being subjected to cruel torture (e.g. rape). Many babies are apathetic, no longer respond to their parents' speech and have massive breastfeeding confusion.
Harvard trauma expert Bessell van der Kolk, M. D., explains:
<blockquote>
"When fighting or running does not take care of the threat, we activate the last resort—the reptilian brain, the ultimate emergency system. This system is most likely to engage when we are physically immobilized, as when we are pinned down by an attacker or when a child has no escape from a terrifying caregiver. … Once this system takes over, other people, and we ourselves, cease to matter. Awareness is shut down and we may no longer even register physical pain."<ref name="vanderkolk2014">{{REFbook
|last=van der Kolk
|first=Bessel
|year=2014
|title=The Body Keeps the Score
|url=
|pages=85
|isbn=978-0-14-312774-1
|accessdate=2021-08-10
}}</ref>
</blockquote>
=== Witch sleep ===