Comments on: Parents Suspect Abducted Son Was Abused

Michael Devlin Pleads Not Guilty To Kidnapping; Authorities Say He Confessed

[glidescube]

"The parents of this boy have affirmed that stupid people shouldn't breed. ... gone on Oprah, and said that although their son hasn't said so, they believe he was sexually abused during his ordeal. Don't they realize that by broadcasting this to the entire world that their son is going to be belittled, harrassed and treated differently by his peers aqt school?
'Posted by besttyper'"

What are you talking about. The kid's won the lotto! Soon there'll be books out and then a movie deal. The kid is financially set for life! Unfortunately he's paid a vey high price for his fame.

[billzor]

His parents shouldn't breed? He liked being held against his will, (and God knows what else?) What is the purpose of saying things like that? This child has done nothing to deserve such pathetic and useless cynicism. Mean people suck.

[porion]

Let's just thank our stars that this boy is home where he belongs. Devlin had no right to take him. At the least he kidnapped the child at the worst he abused, degraded, threaten and tortured the boy at gun point and maybe worse...the boy is what, 110 pounds tops and is being assaulted by a 290 pound pervert, frightening, abusive man??? Elizabeth Smart, in less time, walking the streets clost to her home did not try to run...she did NOT enjoy her captor, she FEARED him....maybe they threaten to kill parents and then in a time period....it becomes reality to the child, and their spirits are fearful and they surrender to the awfulness of their captures...let's just be human for a moment and be grateful, that one child (thankfully 2 in this case) is home...let's remember to thank the real hero, and that's a child who survives captivity at any cost. And the other hero, the young boy who was able to account for the white truck leaving a the area at the time of a child's abduction, without truly knowing what he was witness too! ALL of this is a miracle if they exsist for abuducted children...now what I want to know is "where in the world is Jason Wetterling"?

[tdl_cfisdedu]

gingergargoy,where on the internet did you find his family web page?( in your comment posted jan 18-12:44pm)

[tdl_cfisdedu]

Dasil27, you said that Shawn posted comments on his own missing web site? Where did you see this poster?

[nothappyatall]

The parents of this boy have affirmed that stupid people shouldn't breed. ... gone on Oprah, and said that although their son hasn't said so, they believe he was sexually abused during his ordeal. Don't they realize that by broadcasting this to the entire world that their son is going to be belittled, harrassed and treated differently by his peers aqt school?
Posted by besttyper


Exactly right, and THIS whole media circus on this, the allegations, rumors and all the rest are making this WORSE, it reminds me of the nwspaper story here about a mom whose young TEEN AGED daughter opened the mail and catalogues and one of them was a catalogue for mild pornography tapes etc. The article went on to say that the girl screamed and ran to mom and was ALL upset. Why? because she saw a NUDE man on the cover of the catalogue.

SCREAMED AND RAN to her mommy all upset and crying because she saw a PICTURE of a nude man on the cover of a catalogue. Sounded to me like mom was teaching major PARANOIA because that level of reaction is NOT normal.
We are rapidly turning kids into paranoid babbling morons who scream and run if anyone so much as LOOKS their way.
This was a teenager not a 5 year old, a TEEN never saw a picture of a nude man before? where was mom's *** ed years before?

[susanhelit]

Keep up with the case, and you'll know the facts.

He's already been charged - abduction with a weapon, and a police spokesperson has already said (with a little heat and contempt for those requiring him to answer so stupid a question, imho), that Shawn was abducted at gunpoint and there was no previous contact between them.

Threats have also been confirmed by Shawn's parents. Being human, they're not pressing him to relive all the details so quickly after he's finally escaped his 4 year nightmare.

[nothappyatall]

"The parents of a kidnapped Missouri boy said Thursday they believe their son was molested during the four years he was missing,"

They can "believe" anything they wish, but believing doesn't make it fact, till the proof is presented in a court of law and found valid, this was an abduction and kidnapping.

[faithe2007]

And you _know_ with 100% certainty that he was abducted vs. ran away...how?

[mgpm-2009]

For anyone, especially at this early stage, to assume that this boy enjoyed being kidnapped at 11 years of age and stayed with his kidnapper because he liked being with him more than being at home is almost as sick as what Mike Devlin did himself. Why is anyone passing judgement on this child? We have NO idea of what he has been through. Leave him alone. He's been through enough without you armchair psychologists pecking at him like a bunch of vultures!