Randy Kessler

The best thing that can happen for these children

is to go into a new family where there are predictable and safe attachment systems so they can kind of... They're with their relatives now, Dr. Bethany.

That's good.

Nancy, it's called evocative memory.

Let's say you go on a trip and you take a certain kind of perfume or product on the trip.

And then years later, you pull that product out of a drawer and you smell it.

You will think about that trip.

So anything those children saw, smelled, felt in that room, it's going to be evoked.

So let's say they see the color red.

Let's say they're watching a movie.

And we know that there is violence in all movies, unless it's a comedy.

They will see maybe the sight of blood or somebody being killed or a child looking at a parent.

That evocative memory is going to be triggered.

And then you combine that with PTSD.

One of the symptoms of which is flashbacks.

A flashback is when you're in a similar situation to the earlier trauma, and your brain tells you that you're in the exact same

situation again.

Let's say you're in the war, you are in the middle of an explosion, an IED goes off, years later you're walking down the street and a car backfires, all of a sudden you feel that you're in the war again.

So these kids are going to be exposed to similar flashbacks and evocative memory throughout the rest of their lives.

Did you find any other evidence in his home in Lincoln Park?