What Was the Testimony From Her Captors?

I think it was a combination of needing to save her own life, and having this young, malleable, abused psyche. One of the claims that Effley Bailey made a trial was that she had lost 15 IQ points after what she'd gone through. She then also used as a way to claim that she didn't know what she was talking about when she tried to have her sentence overturned based on the fact that he'd been incompetent at time of trial. But under these, she's being coerced into accepting her role in a violent and abusive power structure.