Incredible story! I cannot imagine how overwhelmed mom, dad and Shawn are - Shawn being found and, now, a brand-new furnished home with no mortgage.
>>Shawn being found
I recently read a (revised, updated) version of I KNOW MY
NAME IS STEVEN, about a 7 yr old who was abucted in Calif.
by a man who kept him for 7 years and sexually abused him.
Then the man decided to start looking for a younger victim
(Steven, whom he'd renamed "Dennis", was apparently getting a bit too "old" for him) so the perv kidnapped 5 year old
Timmy White. Just took both of them. Sound familiar? Like
this guy abducting Shawn and then trolling for another
victim, and abducting him...
what's even more sad about the case of Steven is that
a) he actually felt sympathy for the perv because he had
taken care of him (yeah, but kidnapping, oral and
anal copulation...); b) the perv (Ken Parnell) got yet
another light sentence, and c) Steven was killed in
a motorcyle/car crash when he was only 24...