That's a little odd too.

The abductor was organized enough to bring a brick or clever enough to use a found brick to prop the door open. Didn't want to make noise and wake anybody up. BUT, not organized or clever enough to bring a flashlight. Instead the perv was brazen enough to turn on the kitchen light but not worried somebody could see him if they woke up. not worried somebody would get a look at his face if he was caught on the way out.

I'd think turning on an interior light would be the last thing an abductor would do.

And maybe it's just colloquialism, but in that article the girlfriend keeps referring to the abductor as "THEM". Plural. That's almost never the case, so why would she be saying them? Why does she assume it's more than one person? A team of abductors is kind of absurd.

Sometimes the words in these things matter, and sometimes they don't.