Posted on 01/12/2007 2:39:17 PM PST by cgk
Oh, gosh, that came out wrong. Shawn's situation = Shawn's bike having been stolen.
Even if that's correct, that another bike was missing and the cops were told that Shawn's bike was missing, too, which led to them getting a good look at him but not recognizing him and not rescuing him, that MUST have cemented in his mind that cops would be no help.
Also, Devlin's boss at the pizza place said the neighborhood cops KNEW Devlin...he waited on them constantly and knew what they wanted to order even before they said it.
Imagine how Devlin could drive that point home to Shawn...I know the cops, they are my friends, they will believe what I tell them, they will not believe a kid like you, yada yada yada. If you say something bad about me, you'll be the one to get in trouble, not me.
And on and on it went...
You are correct it wasn't Shawn or Devlin who called in to the police station to report the bike stolen. The cop was already there at the apt complex following up on another report of a different stolen bike.
Yeap. Just wanted to clarify so it didn't give the "Shawn should have done something, he must have liked it" crowd more ammunition.
It presents two different views. If Shawn called, then he could be "comfortable" there. If the police just happened upon his missing bike, and Devlin stood over him while he talked to the police, different outcome.
But, it definitely cemented Devlin's authority in Shawn's mind. One, the police didn't recognize him, or if they did, they accepted that he was supposed to be with Devlin. Two, Devlin could drive home the police were his pals, and would believve anything he said.
What thread is being pulled?
There was an earlier thread today that was just terrible. A couple of people kept saying that Shawn must have liked being there since he never got help in 4 years when he had chances. I told one guy to walk down a street in Fallujah waving an American flag, get captured then tortured for 4 years, then report back to us about all the brave things he did while in captivity.
It was pulled a few hours ago. It was a seperate thread about Shawn's stolen bike in "03, the cops talking to him and Devlin about it, and seemed to suggest that Shawn should've told the cops he was being held by Devlin after being kidnapped, so perhaps he wanted to stay there. A single poster got everyone riled up by bashing Shawn and his parents worse than anything I've seen, the rest of us took him on, and the Mod pulled the entire thread.
His description of kids hitting puberty 11 and younger being normal was pretty wild, huh?
Again, I am speculating, but I really believe that Shawn was a replacement, just like I believe that Ben was Shawn's replacement. All that fat f@#$ had to do was kill the first boy and tell Shawn the kid tried to get help. He may have even had Shawn help get rid of the body for all we know and said now that Shawn was guilty too so he better stay!! This is sheer speculation, but we just don't know. Of course just being raped at gun point would be enough...
Those same cretins probably think that if a woman goes to a bar and has one too many, she's asking to be raped.
Not as wild as him thinking that since he played little league football, he could fight off a gun weilding 300 pound man...
Yep, and if they, like him, had hit puberty by 11, then they should be able to take a baseball bat to the head of the kidnapper. Also, said Shawn must have been raised a girly boy, must have come from a home he wanted to get away from, and must have had a low IQ, just barely above retarded.
Imagina as well had Shawn tried to reveal something to the cops and they just returned him to his father saying he needed a good whiippin for being a rebellious child. It does happen where law enforcement blindly sides with the authority figure without question.
Wow I missed that one.
Good for the Mod!
Yes, this has crossed my mind as well.
Soccermom...you have very clearly articulated my own thoughts about this whole incident...thanks for saying what you have said, I agree completely with you...
When people start blaming the victim, for something over which he had no control, and when people actually start imagining to themselves, that they know exactly how the victim should have acted in a particular situation, I am appalled...
And your last sentence says it all...you said..."None of us knows what our kids would do for certain"...truer words could not be spoken...you can teach your children how to react in certain given situations, and pound it into their heads how they should act in any given situation, but until your own child is actually in that same situation, there is no way to know how they will act...one likes to believe that a child will react as they have been taught, but what one wants to believe that their child will do, and what the child actally will do, are two separate things, which may bear no ressemblance to one another...
I find blaming the victim, a child, to be quite appalling...
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