Sarah joined a religious cult while a student at college. Her father hired a deprogrammer who spent several weeks with her, during which they occasionally went on outings. After Sarah met with her boyfriend one weekend, she rejoined the cult and sued her father and the deprogrammer for false imprisonment. In this case:
a. Sarah will win because this is clearly false imprisonment.
b. Sarah will lose because she was not confined within fixed boundaries, she was not harmed by the deprogrammer's presence, and she had a reasonable means of leaving.
c. Sarah has committed the tort of malicious prosecution.
d. Sarah's parents are guilty of intrusion but not of false imprisonment.
b
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