HARTFORD, Conn. -- An ambulance transported Danielle Cramer to an area hospital on Wednesday after police discovered her locked in a hidden room in a West Hartford home.

The 15-year-old Bloomfield girl disappeared on June 14, 2006. Police described the girl as pale when they found her while serving a search warrant on Wednesday, and officers arrested two women and a man.

Police continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding how Danielle disappeared and whether there was a relationship between her and the three adults arrested.

On Thursday morning, James Murray, the administrator for behavioral health services at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, spoke with Eyewitness News This Morning about the standard medical and psychological treatment procedures for a person held captive.

"It's fair to assume that there has been a traumatic experience from this prolonged separation, captivity," he said.

Murray said the impressionism stage of an adolescent could make a teenager more susceptible while trying to find his or her independence.

"They can be prayed upon by someone who's willing to manipulate them," Murray said. "They can actually be broken down through a period of positive reinforcements, but also deprivation, punishments and other kinds of negative experience."

Murray explained that a person manipulated by another person tends to identify with the person who has the power and control.

"That person has started to tell them who they are, define their well-being. They have now almost become the point of safety and security because the individual has lost a sense of being able to define that for themselves," Murray said.

He said separation from that individual can create a new sense of trauma.

"At that point, then, their loss of trust for other individuals, for their previous family, but mostly for themselves -- they've given it over to the other person who has gained full control of them psychologically," Murray said.

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