VICTIM'S FATHER SERVED TIME AS A PERV

NY Post ^ | January 21, 2007 | KEVIN JENKINS in Richwoods, Mo., and BRAD HAMILTON in New York

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The man who fathered kidnapped teen Shawn Hornbeck was a convicted sex offender who did three years in a Missouri prison on drug and sodomy charges, The Post has learned.

The late Walter Hornbeck was 60 when Shawn was born to him and his wife, Pamela Akers. He had little contact with his son, Akers said.

Akers kicked him out of the house when the boy was just 6 months old, and the couple divorced in 1992, about a year after Shawn was born.

Hornbeck was arrested in Washington County, near St. Louis, on Sept. 30, 1992, and charged with rape, although it's unclear who the victim was. Details of the case were not available, and most of the record has been sealed.

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I don't think they are terrible bright ... well intentioned but not the brightest bulbs out there ... .
Leave it insensitive Oprah to capitalize on that and exploit the hell out of it.

I can't imagine, being in the audience as my parents are asked if I was sexually abused. OF COURSE HE WAS!

DUH!!!

Why make the kid feel like crap? WHY?

Kids are mean. Some will ridicule him. I don't believe this was Shawn's idea of a good time.