[CedarDave]

I came across the interesting story of the girl with two heads and was reading some of the posts on the forums (mostly unmoderated) about her/them. Instead of celebrating survival to age 16 and leading somewhat of a normal life, I read some of the most vile and foul posts there regarding her/them, especially regarding her sexuality as she enters puberty. It seems that the internet demonstrates both the good and bad in people. Even though most posts are supportive of a person undergoing physical or mental trauma, there are a certain few that go beyond asking understandable questions and take it down to a new level of depravity.

[stlnative]

Someday Shawn will be back on the internet and may decide to do a search on his name and guess what web site with discussion threads will pop up first matching up to his name?

I shutter just thinking about some of the comments that are posted on FR about this case. Some of them are removed but some of them are not. The same thing happened when Elizabeth Smart was missing and then found. There were many nasty comments about her and her family here on FR.

[mel]

like the yahoo boards. That stuff is absolutely porn and I believe has strong pedophile statements.

[bonfire]

I know. And it makes me ill.