I have lost all respect for his 'parents' after they showcased him on Oprah, less than a week after his discovery!
actually that was Shawn's doing, not his parents! He wanted to gp on Oprah and he wanted his story told ASAP so as to help people understand we need to be paying more attn tomissing kids out there and to help if see a strange situation.
Shawn's parents have always been on the media since he went missing. This is nothing new.
I think no one should judge the parents decisions or lack of decisions seeing they have no clue what kind of faily the Aker's are and what they have gone through these past 4 years.
It's showtime isn't it. These people are condemning Shawn to a life as an object of curiosity. He will never be "Normal" due what has occured to him at the hands of Devlin, and the family has now contributed to making the problem worse.
A welcome home event with family and friends should have been enough if at all.
Agreed, the kid has enough challenges confronting him without his parents speculating about his ordeal in the media.
How many lost kids have you searched for ?
Did you lose your leg searching for a missing kid like's Shawn Dad Did ?
Did you DEPLETE All Your Life's Savings Helping To Search For kIDNAPPED Children ?
What are your thoughts on the the 300 POUND SKUMBAG Kidnapper who had kiddie porn on his computer ?
Do you contribute to the ACLU ??????
I notice not a word of condemnation of Devlin in your post.
How many people look at pictures of missing kids and pay scant attention, because they assume the kids will never be recovered? I'll admit to it if no one else will. How many of those people might pay more attention because they hear about Shawn, or Elizabeth Smart, or other stories with a happy (or at least happier than expected) ending?
I don't know what kind of conversations went on between Shawn, his pshrink(s), his parents, the police, prosecutors, Oprah and her producers, and I'm not inclined to reach a snap judgment based on my own notions of decorum.
I haven't heard one expert on child abductions express anything but negativity towards the parents for exploiting their son so soon after his ordeal.
I think the kid will look back on that television interview one of these days and regret it.