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To: Paved Paradise
I realize the poor boy was brain-washed, but it still amazes me that a teenager of all things would be that afraid, he wouldn't call the police. When I think back to my son when he was a teenager....

He is not a normal teenager. This is a boy who experienced several years of being molested, verbally and physically tortured, and living in fear, pain, and probably shame. He was brought up to fear the consequences of not doing what Michael Devlin said. It's something that's been drummed into him since he was 11 years old. He may have eventually broken free of Devlin's psychological grip on his own, but it wasn't going to happen just because he turned a certain age.

17 posted on 01/15/2007 8:44:05 AM PST by SpringheelJack
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To: SpringheelJack

He was also told his mother was killed in a car crash.


23 posted on 01/15/2007 8:49:12 AM PST by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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To: SpringheelJack

I didn't know they publicly announced this information yet (i.e. molestation, etc.). If teenagers run away and rebel against parents who do these things, then why wouldn't they rebel against a non-parent? I think it's more complicated than even this.


42 posted on 01/15/2007 8:59:23 AM PST by Paved Paradise
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