http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/16/boys.found.ap/index.htmlWhat was this kid thinking? He was left alone for most of the day and he never tried to escape. He had cell phone and internet access. I would be gone the first day I was left unattended.Even if the man threatened to kill him if he went to the police, who cares? He's not going to kill you from jail and if he really wanted them dead he would have done it a long time ago. I don't understand why the kid didn't leave.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>What was this kid thinking? He was left alone for most of the day and he never tried to escape. He had cell phone and internet access. I would be gone the first day I was left unattended.</div>From what I hear they guy had threatened him. He said he had guys watching him if he left. And they would do something to his family. You make it sound so easy just like he could leave. But when you're in that situation, its a whole different problem. Daddy always isnt there to help you
I agree tony. This kid shoulda just kicked teh sh*t out of the guy. If Macaulay Culkin can do it, why can't this little prick?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (LAZY @ Jan 16 2007, 05:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>From what I hear they guy had threatened him. He said he had guys watching him if he left. And they would do something to his family. You make it sound so easy just like he could leave. But when you're in that situation, its a whole different problem. Daddy always isnt there to help you</div>And he couldn't use the phone or internet to contact somebody? Give me a break.
I would have been out of there after a while. even if youre scared I think you should atleast try to find some way to get out.
The kid was threatened and he was young...I'm not going to pretend to know everything that went on...I don't know WTF that kid went through...Tony, I'm sure he had reasons...you can't just put yourself in that same situation and say from an outsiders view..'this is what I would have done.'
OH please, bcb. Again, Makaulay Culkin was like 8 when he kicked those burglars ass, and you're telling me this 11 year old wasn't smart enough to phone or anything?Also, I thought there were like 2 of htem.
I saw them talking on Today show (don't ask me why I was watching this) about how he had user names on forums, blogs, etc. and how on his parents website to find him he actually asked a question.Also, he most likely kept track of everything he did, no way the guy is that dumb. Like LAZY said, he had threatened him and his family if he did anything, it isn't like he just said, "go wherever you want, smoke some weed if you want to, just don't call the cops" he most likely threatened him and he was scared. It has to be traumatizing to be taken away from your family in the blink of an eye.
All I'm saying is, you guys don't know WTF these kids went through, what he told them, stop acting like you'd do everything different. Same thing with that Elizabeth Smart, it's unbelieveable what these sociopathic captors can do to kids minds.
It's funny though. Somewhere some guy sourced 2 articles- 1 I think was that elizabeth smart chick who didn't do anything, and the other was like a 6 year old black girl who chewed through her captor's ropes and called the police. I don't take excuses, this story is pathetic.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Ginger Jesus @ Jan 16 2007, 09:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>It's funny though. Somewhere some guy sourced 2 articles- 1 I think was that elizabeth smart chick who didn't do anything, and the other was like a 6 year old black girl who chewed through her captor's ropes and called the police. I don't take excuses, this story is pathetic.</div> What does her being black have to do with anything.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BALLAHOLLIC? @ Jan 16 2007, 05:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/16/boys.found.ap/index.htmlWhat was this kid thinking? He was left alone for most of the day and he never tried to escape. He had cell phone and internet access. I would be gone the first day I was left unattended.Even if the man threatened to kill him if he went to the police, who cares? He's not going to kill you from jail and if he really wanted them dead he would have done it a long time ago. I don't understand why the kid didn't leave.</div>The term 'life-sentence' usually doesn't mean forever. I'm just saying, this guy will go to jail for along time, but still definately nto forever.And whoever made the Macaluy Colkin (Sp, I know) comparison. Get real, thats a movie. Remember guys, your not in this situation. We aren't 11 (dSoung granted) At 11 years old, you don't really have all your survival senses going.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Things aren?t nearly so simple, according to experts in child psychology. A captor can confine a child with psychological barriers as much as physical ones. ?When a young child is taken from his family and isolated and perhaps threatened, and those threats are backed up by violence?all that plays a tremendous role in silencing the child,? says Dr. Terri Weaver, associate professor of psychology at St. Louis University. Abductors ?know how to create a paralyzing sense of fear so even when the captor is not present, the child feels he is omnipresent.? As a result, she argues, people should ?withhold judgment and blame on this child.?Hornbeck?s life suffered a severe schism when he was allegedly kidnapped at the age of 11. He was torn away from rural Richwoods, Mo., and taken to Kirkwood, more than 60 miles away. Adding to his isolation, he was apparently never re-enrolled in school and evidently made few friends in Devlin?s apartment complex. ?He might have been in the situation where everything he knew, every kind of activity he once did was taken away,? says Dr. Robert Butterworth, a Los Angeles psychologist specializing in trauma. ?No school, no friends, no parents and maybe all the stimulus was gone ? [His captor]had the power of all of this over him.? An abductor often imposes himself further through intimidation or outright violence. That?s a plausible scenario in Hornbeck?s case, according to Devlin?s upstairs neighbor, Harry Reichard. He says that over the course of the year and a half that he lived above the two, he heard all manner of disconcerting sounds, including whimpering, pleading and screaming. On one occasion, he says, ?it was like Shawn was trying to get [Devlin] to stop doing something.?</div>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16673873/site/newsweek/?GT1=8921
I'm with BCB... again...Not every kid in the world has the balls to do that. He was afraid of whatever reprocussions the kidnapper said would happen, and rightfully so.
