Kidnapped
September 5, 2009 8:00 PM
In Full: They were each kidnapped at age 11 and held captive for years. How did Jaycee Lee Dugard survive? Shawn Hornbeck knows and shares his incredible story.
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See all 22 CommentsGood For You Young Shawn. I sincerely hope you will do something amazing with this experience because you have more to offer the world than you may even realize...or maybe you do....lots of love and prayers for you and yours brave soul
A NATIONAL CHILD ID SYSTEM NEEDS TO BE IN PLACE... if you an adult stopped by police for a traffic ticket the cop should ask for ID from you and your juvenile passengers!!! either kids have a passport (like my 11 year old son does) or each state issues an ID for every child similar to a driver's license, with a scan bar on the back. this information would list the child's parent's/legal guardians.. if you get stopped by a cop with a kid and NO ID for the kid... then you're questioned by police to prove the child belongs in your custody...
A NATIONAL CHILD ID SYSTEM NEEDS TO BE IN PLACE... if you an adult stopped by police for a traffic ticket the cop should ask for ID from you and your juvenile passengers!!! either kids have a passport (like my 11 year old son does) or each state issues an ID for every child similar to a driver's license, with a scan bar on the back. this information would list the child's parent's/legal guardians.. if you get stopped by a cop with a kid and NO ID for the kid... then you're questioned by police to prove the child belongs in your custody...
WE NEED TO EDUCATE OUR KIDS HOW TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES IN THIS SITUATION.... EDUCATE EDUCATE EDUCATE...
We must NEVER, EVER blame a child. Period.
What can we do to protect the children?
These sexual sicko's do not loss the urge! Send them somewhere on an island where they can never come in contact with anyone under the age of 18 yrs old. Keep them locked up! We need to protect the children from these creeps. As I child a man attempted to molest me, luckily my parents were close by! It can happen so quickly.
My sister and I were sexually molested by our neighbor "Butch". She was just four and I was only six. We share the same birth date; however, two years apart. I told my story to millions on CBS morning news in July of 2007. I'm 46 today and the pain will always be part of my memory; however, I refuse to allow those memories to ruin my future. I am a survivor. I have created a website www.findingbutch.com to help those who have endured the same pain and need a place to open up.
Someday ...I hope to tell my story at length.
Ron
www.findingbutch.com
If as is reported on Shawn Hornbeck's official site, the programme makers spent nearly a year with the family recording 100 hours, to show footage of a relative of one friend stating "I'd like to think he could've told me" was time better spent elsewhere, like hearing more from Ben Ownby, it was the boys' story and not the place to give a platform to the doubters - you can read their views online.
Oh and another thing, before and after my abuse I was able to do plenty of childhood stuff that made me smile...as it was, get this, *childhood*! Happy stuff also happens to kids who have been hit by any form of child abuse between birth and high school graduation - and there is no reason to tell someone who would mete out the kind of misguided judgement and comments that Hornbeck has had to endure, he told the police what was necessary to help put the perpetrator away forever in lieu of other evidence - he owes nothing to anyone after that.
To make out like the entirety of someone's life was a cover-up or that they were complicit due to one bad event that they decline to share with you, however long it lasted, is plain ignorance, but there's an army of people out there that still see ignorance as bliss, even regarding child abuse.
Lewis
The guilt and shame of it all was bad enough, and I didn't have someone beat me, threaten me with a gun, choke me, and tie me up.
Why is it ok in our society to abused as a girl, but if you're a boy, it's somehow your fault??? Complete ignorance is what it is.
Shawn did what he had to in order to survive. In his 11 year old mind his only choices were to obey or die. There was nothing else. Those who insinuate otherwise, are severely uninformed and uneducated on what trauma like that does to a person.
I hope attitudes in this country can change, I hope awareness can be raised. It's definitely more than needed as abuse statistics go up every year.
Shawn was/is frightened. Who would NOT be terrified - REALLY terrified if you were taped to the furniture all day, beaten, choked and sexually assaulted at any age but especially as a child.
People get a clue. This boy is TERRIFIED. Does it help in our own sense of shame at not be able to help this boy to ask a stupid question and put the blame onto a troubled boy by asking the question "why did you NOT tell?"
Give the boy a HUG.
DJ
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