Sunday, January 14, 2007
how did he take them?
As Craig Akers says, the intense publicity of the Missouri boys' recovery is a unique and superb opportunity for getting out more information. One thing I'm hoping to find out is how Devlin snatched the boys, not from prurient curiosity but because these boys are alert and smart - and yet they were taken. It seems highly doubtful they'd have jumped into a car with a stranger willingly. Ben had just passed his friend Mitchell's house walking along the road toward his own home after getting off the schoolbus, and Shawn had been riding his bike to a friend's house. So how did Devlin cajole and grab them? A friend and I came up with at least a plausible scenario - Devlin could have driven his truck directly right at a boy, startling him to fall off his bike (Shawn) or knocking him down (Ben), then jumped out of the car saying something like 'Oh gosh I'm so sorry are you okay?', and then grabbing the unsuspecting boy and throwing him in the truck. Well, could be. Anyway, I hope we find out so it can be added to everyone's preventive arsenal.
Labels: children, modern culture
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| posted by jau at 10:33 AM
jau — at 5:23 PM, January 16, 2007:
| posted by jau at 10:33 AM
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jau — at 5:23 PM, January 16, 2007:
I totally agree that we need to know what happened so we can teach our children (and ourselves) what to be on guard against.
As for Shawn, don't you imagine he was pretty thoroughly brainwashed - or something like it - by the last year or so? He was taken when he was 11 and looked more like 9 or 10. I suspect you could traumatize a little child fairly easily. Heck, I know women whose husbands hold them in thrall
As for Shawn, don't you imagine he was pretty thoroughly brainwashed - or something like it - by the last year or so? He was taken when he was 11 and looked more like 9 or 10. I suspect you could traumatize a little child fairly easily. Heck, I know women whose husbands hold them in thrall
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