Comments on: Parents Suspect Abducted Son Was Abused

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

[susanhelit]

Abducted at gunpoint, raped, threats made against you, and everyone you've ever known. Lies, beatings, mindgames - and people figure he liked it!

[susanhelit]

NAMBLA party line - "They like it!"

[susanhelit]

Thank goodness for that!

[mdc76082]

Faithe2007, I concur 110% with you. We are definitely a minority.

[faithe2007]

My $0.02 is that SCH was not abducted outright, that he enjoyed his 4-1/2 yrs. hanging-out at Devlin's, playing videogames and not going to school. Anyone with good intuitive skills at reading people could tell from his eye movements and body language on Oprah today that he is being untruthful and evasive; nor does he truthfully welcome being back in his parents' company. Clear as day!!!

[tdl_cfisdedu]

everyone keeps talking about a web site that Shawn used to communicate with his parents. What site and where do I locate it at? I am happy that the boys were returned. I am confused as to why Shawn kept starring at his step-dad and not his mother during the Oprah show.Did anyone notice that?

[susanhelit]

Shawn is past the point where your neice was - everyone knows. Any cruel teenager inclined to be hurtful knows. No reason not to say it, to act as though it is indeed something to be ashamed of.

[besttyper]

Susan,
You and I, as adults, know the boy has done nothing to be ashamed of, but children have not reached that same level of thought. My 10-year-old niece was raped. The day he was sentenced to prison for 10 years, she made the choice herself to tell a classmate who was her friend, who told another, who told another, etc. My niece was teased by her classmates, who didn't understand that my niece was an innocent victim. They laughed at her and made fun of her. She cried and felt that maybe she did do something to deserve being laughed at. By the end of the day, the principal, who had been keep in the loop throughout, had to hold a meeting with her classmates to try to explain the situation. Childrens' ignorance, age and inexperience can make them appear cruel. There's no reason why adults should provide avenues to promote problems and stress.

[susanhelit]

Saying publicly that you've been raped should be no more startling, shameful, traumatizing than saying you've been robbed - were people not holding to some degree to the obsolete notion that a person who is raped is partly to blame for it, that a man raped by another man is gay because of it. Shawn and his parents have nothing to be ashamed of in anything they said, and no reason for them to stay silent.

Not that it isn't obvious anyway - young boys abducted and held by older men - only one reason.

[gaye5]

dasil27 you said...... preyed on young boys with a five year or so cycle replacing one with another as they "aged out" ....
I wonder if what you say here is the key to their silence... and at this stage all people can do is wonder.... if a child saw the evidence of the last child being fazed out, then wouldnt that be enough to keep him silent...then and now...he would not want to recount the horrors he might have seen himself...