It would seem the perp intentionally selected fairly distant, rural locations.
Posted on 01/12/2007 2:39:17 PM PST by cgk
I agree with you. It's never a good idea to lead strangers to where you live -- who knows who could become intrigued by or fixated on what. Especially as a female, I don't even let cabs arrive at my house; I walk to/get dropped off at a local store. Call me paranoid, I've been called worse!
from what I have found there is no place for donations for Shawn Hornbeck and family, only the Owenby boy.
There is a Shawn Hornbeck foundation website. We had linked it to this thread last night because that was the source for the blog entries.
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Shawn Hornbeck did confirm (to his mother) during the presser, that he was in the Kirkwood-apartment area all along.
At that point the authorities stepped in to suggest they leave it at that, for now.
He was interacting with his parents to confirm or reject information as he sat to the side with them, and even smiled a few times, which absolutely lit up the room.
When you have time, please give some thought to the problem of judges that let perps go who have been molesting children for years, but the children were available to them and they didn't have to grab one off the street.
Bill O. keeps talking about Vermont judges who either let them go or give them very light sentences. Supposedly so they can get "treatement" (ha).
I've been thinking. If you molest a child for 4 yrs but didn't have to kidnap them to do it, you get off (in some jurisdictions) or get out of jail soon. If you grab one off the street and hold them and molest them for 4 yrs., your bail is set at 1 million dollars and your goose is cooked.
So, don't we need to change the law?
Why not pass laws that define kidnapping as INCLUDING molesting a child against his or her will even if it happens within the home, the family setting, whatever. It is absolutely a form of kidnapping as the child is being confined either physically or psychologically (you better not tell or I'll do thus and so to you or someone you love) and cannot be expected to break free of it in most cases.
So if you are convicted of doing this, a kidnapping charge is included. That way you'll be put away for a very long time, maybe forever.
What do you think?
CNN:
Sheriff: "...getting the word out about the truck made all the difference..."
[Shades of Chief Moose's failings, including his reluctance to broadcast a description of the real vehicle, rather than some nebulous vehicle.]
I think that's definitely possible! For the record, it appears that one post was written at 1:59am, the 2nd one the afternoon of the same day -- not an hour apart as someone else said.
I'd like to hear how Devlin snatched BEN and what happened in the car to subdue the child on the way to the apartment...considering Devlin had to be driving while trying to keep the boy from bailing out..at the same time. Did he have a gun?
NOT that I am suggesting Ben did anything wrong..FAR from it. It's a matter of profiling how these guys can get the kids to stay quiet and still during the abduction.
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Ben's conference is on local news now. The boy is beaming with smiles. His mother is talking now.
Threats against thme and their families.
Not necessarily -- many adults ARE that illiterate!
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My understanding is that the details will not coming out since the case against Devlin is pending at this point.
not BE coming
But I am going back to the exact moment of when Devlin literally got Ben into that truck.
Did he grab him? Did he tell him his parents told him to pick him up? How did he keep him restrained?
A long time ago, we had a 12 year old girl who was abducted, raped and killed in a small town here in Arkansas.
The perp stopped his car, and asked her for "directions". He grabbed her and pulled her RIGHT INTO the car thru the open window.
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