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Why, becuase he publicly stated what a lot of peopel wondered privately (ie: not on a nat'l tv or radio show)?
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I have lost all respect for his 'parents' after they showcased him on Oprah, less than a week after his discovery!
Someone still left at Time to write something?
I saw this boy with his grinning parents on TV this morning. They'll stop smiling when they start to sort out the long term effects of the captivity and abuse this young man has endured. I'm betting it will make a case of PTSD look like a common cold.
Bill is going to feel like a real schmuck if it turns out the boy was molested (and he probably was.)
Stupid thing for O'Reilly to say without knowing more facts.
Stupid for the parents to trot their son out on Oprah...regardless of whether the kid wanted to do it or not.
He's gotten a lot of flack for his comment and had Bernard Goldberg and Jane Hall on his show last night. Both of them suggested to him that he should have handled it differently and I agree with them. It is true that Stockholm Syndrome is rare, which was the point he was trying to make. I sent him an FYI with a book recommendation for "Stop Walking on Eggshells," which was written to help individuals who live with Borderline Personality Disorder (which I am not suggesting the perp has). But the book is useful in understanding how one individual can control another.
People/public are horribly cruel to assume the worst.
People who gossip/busybodie and such when others are in pain and need of Prayer are creepy in a different way but still creepy as is the Devlin types.
Just shows how unintelligent he is. There are lots of muslim kids in the mideast who want to blow themselves up, but what do kids know?
Oops typo. meant to write "IS usually strong".
Don't worry, Oprah will fix it.
BOR never thinks enough before he opens the pie hole. It probably never occured to him why women married to wife beaters stay. It always asked why they didn't just leave? They usually say they were told that themselves and their kids would be hunted down and killed. Maybe their family members threatened also. Fear can do a lot to the people who feel they have no power or resources. I can remember that story about the kid that escaped Jeffrey Dahmer, out on the street naked and terrified, the cops took him back to Dahmer who then later killed him.
"But they said comments by Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly that the boy may have enjoyed living with Michael Devlin more than his family had infuriated the couple."
So all the friends, playing with kids, bike riding, video games and such was a lie? Nobody's blaming the kid but it is not speculation that the kid seemed to at least have fun while missing.
And for what it's worth, if a comment like Bill's is all it takes to "lose your respect", I doubt your respect is of any value.
Other children have been abducted and have not tried to escape for years, they can't all have liked living with their kidnappers. People who take this stanch without knowing the facts are ignorant asshats IMO.
Maybe he thought he couldn't go back. Who knows. I would take him out of the media and homeschool him, and finish raising him privately though. IMO he will probably try to run away. It's hard to go from undisciplined to structure. I don't understand this not bringing things up until he talks about it either. I think I would assume the worse and let him know that nothing that might have happened would change me loving him, and if something bad happened he could tell me.
The man is so far beyond the bounds of decency, there are no words.