At this point, I'm not going to take from it that they want us to think the victim was Shawn.
BTW, notice the transcript you have starts out saying convicted of sodomy and then changes to "ATTEMPTED sodomy" when the guy repeats himself.
Perhaps it could have been Shawn, but they both said, there are no details available about the victim, at least not in this report. They are the type of tabloid "journos" who would bring this up no matter whether it had to do with Shawn or the kidnapping or not.
One could just as well guess this way...not that the father knew Devlin, but that Shawn was abused by his real dad and therefore was prime to be abused again by Devlin, and that the element of being a repeat victim is the bizarre twist, not that the two men knew each other and somehow cooperated with each other.
This is all so irresponsible by Newscorp. aka NYP and FNC. It is practically nauseating.
I would hope that Fox would have run this info past the Akers before airing it. Even if true, wouldn't they tell the family out of respect before they reveal this type of story?
They are despicable for bringing this up IF it is Shawn's father. (With those dates they are throwing around, who knows?) But we should remember that sodomy can be committed against a girl or a boy, so I don't think they are necessarily implying that Shawn was the victim.
this is disgusting reporting. Shawn's father died in 200, not 1999 and not 2002 like the NYpost reporter reported last night! Shawn's biological father was out of his life at the age of 6 months and I don't he ever saw him again after that.
There should be a law protecting children from reporters trashing their family like this! This is so gross.