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Shawn Hornbeck's family looks to step out of spotlight
belleville.com ^ | 1/24/07

Posted on 01/24/2007 8:24:19 AM PST by Halls

CHESTERFIELD, Mo. - Shawn Hornbeck's parents hope "to step out of the spotlight" to focus on their abducted son's healing now that he has returned home.

That plan to take a lower profile was announced Tuesday during a news conference, as a suburban St. Louis homebuilder detailed plans to build a new house for Shawn and his parents, Craig and Pam Akers. The home will include office space for the Shawn Hornbeck Foundation, which Shawn's parents began as a means to aid in the search for missing kids soon after Shawn disappeared in 2002.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: devlin; hornbeck; shawnhornbeck
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I am glad Shawn's parents are doing this. Shawn needs 100% focus and I think with the parents he has he will get it!
1 posted on 01/24/2007 8:24:20 AM PST by Halls
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To: BonneBlue; DvdMom; soccermom; demsux; seekthetruth; NotJustAnotherPrettyFace; trillabodilla; ...

ping


2 posted on 01/24/2007 8:24:52 AM PST by Halls (Please take time out to look at pictures of missing children and help get them home!)
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To: Halls

Why did they step into the spotlight in the first place?


3 posted on 01/24/2007 8:25:46 AM PST by Long Island Pete
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To: Long Island Pete
Why did they step into the spotlight in the first place?

$$$$

4 posted on 01/24/2007 8:28:01 AM PST by frogjerk (REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
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To: Long Island Pete

when their son Shawn went missing 4 years ago they were in the spotlight a lot in the media trying to help find Shawn. Than they started the ShawnHornbeck Foundation to help find other children and they were on the news many times involved in the search for other missing kids.


5 posted on 01/24/2007 8:29:05 AM PST by Halls (Please take time out to look at pictures of missing children and help get them home!)
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To: Halls

JMHO but they should never have been there in the first place. Putting a child on TV after that? Stupid.


6 posted on 01/24/2007 8:29:27 AM PST by Karliner ("Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. DDE)
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To: frogjerk

that is not true!


7 posted on 01/24/2007 8:29:27 AM PST by Halls (Please take time out to look at pictures of missing children and help get them home!)
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To: Halls

Time will take care of that on its own, but they need to get out of the habit of staging press conferences. The press is like a shark --- the more chum you feed it, the more frenzied and drawn to you it becomes.


8 posted on 01/24/2007 8:31:10 AM PST by SpringheelJack
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To: Halls

Would you have put your kid on Oprah so soon after getting him back home alive?


9 posted on 01/24/2007 8:31:29 AM PST by Long Island Pete
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To: Long Island Pete
Would you have put your kid on Oprah so soon after getting him back home alive?

Exclusively, that is.

10 posted on 01/24/2007 8:33:10 AM PST by frogjerk (REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
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To: Long Island Pete

i don't know, but I think the person we need to talk trash about is the perp Devlin, not Shawn's parents. Them putting their son on Oprah is nothing compared to the hell that child has gone through int he last 4 years.


11 posted on 01/24/2007 8:33:31 AM PST by Halls (Please take time out to look at pictures of missing children and help get them home!)
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Shawn Hornbeck's family looks to step out of spotlight

Someone should gently inform them that appearing on Oprah is not exactly stepping out of the spotlight.
12 posted on 01/24/2007 8:34:48 AM PST by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: Halls
No doubt but I am sure his sitdown with Oprah didnt help at all. There was no need to have him on the show and I will go even one step further and say his identity should be protected just like any other female rape victim. And yet we still dont know the name of the woman in the Duke rape case.
13 posted on 01/24/2007 8:35:37 AM PST by Long Island Pete
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To: Halls

Now that they're done parading him before that lurid witch billionaire Oprah Winfrey....


14 posted on 01/24/2007 8:36:07 AM PST by D-Chivas
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You really are a very single-minded person.

Funny that this new announcement comes less than 24 hrs. after it was revealed that 15 yr. old Shawn helped Devlin abduct Ben Ownby, using a gun and duct tape. You simply cannot bear to hear the truth. So, how do you think you are helping the cause here? By shouting down anyone who disagrees with you? No reply is necessary.
15 posted on 01/24/2007 8:36:41 AM PST by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: ishabibble

I forgot to put this in my post. Just in case anyone skipped over that outrageous fake headline.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1772509/posts


16 posted on 01/24/2007 8:40:17 AM PST by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: ishabibble

I am not a single minded person! And NO, SHAWN did not help kidnap BEN! Get the facts straight! He was forced to help! Do you know the difference????


17 posted on 01/24/2007 8:41:39 AM PST by Halls (Please take time out to look at pictures of missing children and help get them home!)
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To: ishabibble

Shawn was forced to help, he did not willingly help!


18 posted on 01/24/2007 8:42:19 AM PST by Halls (Please take time out to look at pictures of missing children and help get them home!)
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To: ishabibble

Well, heres the actual headline:

Police: Shawn Hornbeck forced to help in Ownby kidnapping


19 posted on 01/24/2007 8:44:31 AM PST by John W
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To: ishabibble

Actually this announcement was posted on their website before this news came out. A lot of uninformed people here spewing forth a lot of accusations. At the words of the DA, "educate yourselves". You may find it very helpful. Easy to pick on a boy who was abducted while he was in the 5th grade. How about directing some of these hate filled posts to the perpetrator. Geez.


20 posted on 01/24/2007 8:44:33 AM PST by BonneBlue
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