@Chthonic19, I agree. What are these "users" investigating Shawn when they ought to be more interested in the fact that he is safe now. Then again, you & I both know what is hidden behind these questions, don't we?
Those of you dumb enough to believe Bill O'Reilly blaming Shawn for not trying to escape need to open your eyes. Steven Stayner did the same thing. Sexual abuse/rape devastates your sense of self-worth. You feel too dirty to go home, and you want to die, so why would you want to escape. Stockholm Syndrome IS real. Why do you think battered women call the cops, and when the cops attack their abuser, the women sometimes shoot the cops? It's real. I was raped. You'll never understand if you weren't
@LanceHertford Well, I'm sorry that happened to you. That definitely would fuck anyones mind up, but not in the same way Steven and Shawns minds were fucked up. They didn't have stockholm syndrome. They were pretty much brainwashed. I don't know about Shawn, but the guy who had Steven made him believe that his family didn't want him anymore, and that he was all he had. That definitely sounds like brainwashing to me, and I but that other sick fuck made Shawn believe the same thing.
I can't believe the people questioning why Shawn didn't make more of an effort to run away. He was kidnapped as a very young child, at an age when he was very vulnerable to all kinds of manipulation. He was told that if he tried to get away, his family would be killed, for instance. Not at all hard to understand.
Let me tell you all something... Kids minds are so delicate at that age.. When your brainwashed as a child by a molester, you start thinking it's your way of life.. That in the beginning they threaten your family.. Say it's you & their secret and nobody's to ever find out. I was one of those children.. My mothers dear friend molested me from 4 1/2 yrs old until I was almost 12yrs old, the sick pervert died around then..That's when it finally stopped,, I never told a sole until I was in my thirt
@codeman95291 Good. It's a tragedy he didn't succeed. I'm an advocate for ending prison rape (due to the fact there are so many victims who are non-violent, non-sexual offenders raped), but I hope this guy gets shanked.
@LanceHertford yeah the police are still investigating to see if the guy had other victims.... i guess there were a bunch of kids that went missing and were later killed that were close to where devlin lived or places he frequented very often
Common sense tells me people use abuse to control others, especially mentally. Baterers instill fear and sexual/physical abuse in women, rapists use sex to excerpt control over victims. They break people down mentally, and yes: brainwash them & keep them enslaved. It's usually what abuse is for. Questioning Shawn is like fighting for Devlin.
@808Lana Unless we went through what Shawn did as a kid, we’re never know for sure. I would guess that a certain percentage of kids in his situation would have acted the same; a certain percentage would have booked at the first opportunity, or at least after a short period of time after he learned his abductor's routine. Apparently Shawn never would have, at least as a kid. He was actually in police custody for a brief period of time for a curfew violation.
@Noisyrag2 I'm not going to waste my time questioning Shawn's behavior. Shawn is the child & Devlin was the adult. I don't know what nonsense he fed Shawn over nearly 5 yrs. Devil is liar & I'm glad they stabbed his fat azz his prison.
@808Lana Why not question it? He had plenty of opportunities to get help from people, but he didn't. The cops have even spoken to him when he was there and they patroled that area a lot. Why didn't he try and get help from them? I'm glad they stabbed that sick fucker too. Whats taking them so long to kill him?
@noisyrag2 Get back to me when you're raped as a child. Then I'll listen to your bullshit. It's already too late for you to understand, I'm sure, but non-survivors will never know what it's like to be sexually abused and tormented when you're a child. I get so fucking sick of you people who got to develop normally judging us for not being like you. They have scientifically proven it actually alters brain development. What that FEELS like is self-hatred, self-blame and suicidal ideation.
@LanceHertford Shut the fuck up, asshole. You don't know what happened to me when I was a kid, but I'm not going to blast on here what happened to me. I can't understand how Shawn feels because I was never kidnapped and tortured by a stranger like he was, and unless you were, then you can't understand how he really feels either.
See this is what I don't understand. This dude was not holding him captive. He allowed him to do whatever he wanted it seems. Neighbors always saw Shawn hanging outside with the other kids. One neighbor even said Shawn was good friends with her son and slept over at their house a bunch of times. Shawn had plenty of opportunities to tell someone that he was abducted and being sexually abused. Even in this video theres plenty of people in at store he could've asked for help. Why didn't he?
@noisyrag2 Still til this day I think the same thing. but who knows. thank God his safe and back at how. Hope those 4years of him missing don't follow him in life. im sure he just wants this to be over i'm sure.
@nich1010 I'm starting to think Devlin brainwashed him or something. I too hope he's able to put that living nightmare behind him. I think he will because he seems like a strong guy. After he survived that hell he went back to school and studied hard to be able to graduate with his old schoolmates. He's also dedicated himself to helping other kidnapped kids, and I'm pretty sure he's studying child psychology in college.
@noisyrag2 That's a great question but it we would never know. Only Shawn knows because HE was the one actually held captive for 4 1/2 years. We may question and question, but we would never get the real answer because WE never went through that like he did or Jaycee Dugard did.
@lollypop2143 There was a case very much like this involving an *adult* young woman who had been kept as an abject slave for a period of time but later was allowed not only to go out, but to get a job and visit her mother! Devlin puzzles me as much if not more. He must have wanted the kid very badly to have taken the chances he had. Leaving the poor kid tied-up in his apartment for hours at a time--for a month!--while he worked? How could anyone function taking that kind of chance?
@noisyrag2 "the dude was not holding him captive" What part of being kidnapped from your home, being raped every night, and being told that if you even look at someone in a way that might be remotely suggestive of being held against your will battery acid would be poured on your family isn't considered "captive" ?
@MissusNorris Look, I'm not doubting that sick fuck abused him and fucked with his head. I think he might've brainwashed him or something, because Shawn acted as though he belonged there. Neighbors always saw him out there hanging with the other kids. One neighbor even said he was her sons best friend, and that he slept over her house a lot. She said he didn't show any signs of what was happening. She said he seemed like a regular kid. Why didn't he say anything to anyone?
@Chthonic19, I agree. What are these "users" investigating Shawn when they ought to be more interested in the fact that he is safe now. Then again, you & I both know what is hidden behind these questions, don't we?
808Lana 1 month ago
SICK FUCK!! POUR BLEACH IN HIS MOUTH PULL HIS TEETH OUT 1 AT A TIME!!!
213REALKILLA 1 month ago
Those of you dumb enough to believe Bill O'Reilly blaming Shawn for not trying to escape need to open your eyes. Steven Stayner did the same thing. Sexual abuse/rape devastates your sense of self-worth. You feel too dirty to go home, and you want to die, so why would you want to escape. Stockholm Syndrome IS real. Why do you think battered women call the cops, and when the cops attack their abuser, the women sometimes shoot the cops? It's real. I was raped. You'll never understand if you weren't
LanceHertford 1 month ago
@LanceHertford Were you kidnapped as a child and put through the same things that Shawn and Steven were put through?
noisyrag2 1 month ago
@noisyrag2 I was raped as a toddler, so yes, minus the kidnapping. I had my mind fucked with the same way. I know what I'm talking about.
LanceHertford 1 month ago
@LanceHertford Well, I'm sorry that happened to you. That definitely would fuck anyones mind up, but not in the same way Steven and Shawns minds were fucked up. They didn't have stockholm syndrome. They were pretty much brainwashed. I don't know about Shawn, but the guy who had Steven made him believe that his family didn't want him anymore, and that he was all he had. That definitely sounds like brainwashing to me, and I but that other sick fuck made Shawn believe the same thing.
noisyrag2 1 month ago
He was a bold mother fucker to take him in a shopping center.
DAMNCHARLIE 1 month ago
I can't believe the people questioning why Shawn didn't make more of an effort to run away. He was kidnapped as a very young child, at an age when he was very vulnerable to all kinds of manipulation. He was told that if he tried to get away, his family would be killed, for instance. Not at all hard to understand.
chthonic19 1 month ago
Let me tell you all something... Kids minds are so delicate at that age.. When your brainwashed as a child by a molester, you start thinking it's your way of life.. That in the beginning they threaten your family.. Say it's you & their secret and nobody's to ever find out. I was one of those children.. My mothers dear friend molested me from 4 1/2 yrs old until I was almost 12yrs old, the sick pervert died around then..That's when it finally stopped,, I never told a sole until I was in my thirt
devastar66 4 months ago
If you read the reports of all the stuff the perv did to Shawn, the only thing you'll wonder is how the kid lived through it.
juliuschas 5 months ago
Omg, this is so scary..
BanaBananza 6 months ago
someone recently just tried to kill that piece of shit in prison
codeman95291 8 months ago 17
@codeman95291 Good. It's a tragedy he didn't succeed. I'm an advocate for ending prison rape (due to the fact there are so many victims who are non-violent, non-sexual offenders raped), but I hope this guy gets shanked.
LanceHertford 1 month ago
@LanceHertford yeah the police are still investigating to see if the guy had other victims.... i guess there were a bunch of kids that went missing and were later killed that were close to where devlin lived or places he frequented very often
codeman95291 1 month ago
Common sense tells me people use abuse to control others, especially mentally. Baterers instill fear and sexual/physical abuse in women, rapists use sex to excerpt control over victims. They break people down mentally, and yes: brainwash them & keep them enslaved. It's usually what abuse is for. Questioning Shawn is like fighting for Devlin.
808Lana 9 months ago
@808Lana Unless we went through what Shawn did as a kid, we’re never know for sure. I would guess that a certain percentage of kids in his situation would have acted the same; a certain percentage would have booked at the first opportunity, or at least after a short period of time after he learned his abductor's routine. Apparently Shawn never would have, at least as a kid. He was actually in police custody for a brief period of time for a curfew violation.
litwriter100 7 months ago
@Noisyrag2 I'm not going to waste my time questioning Shawn's behavior. Shawn is the child & Devlin was the adult. I don't know what nonsense he fed Shawn over nearly 5 yrs. Devil is liar & I'm glad they stabbed his fat azz his prison.
808Lana 9 months ago 8
@808Lana Nonsense?? Dissing Imo's Pizza like that is just un-Missourian.
rkatastrophe 4 months ago
@808Lana Why not question it? He had plenty of opportunities to get help from people, but he didn't. The cops have even spoken to him when he was there and they patroled that area a lot. Why didn't he try and get help from them? I'm glad they stabbed that sick fucker too. Whats taking them so long to kill him?
noisyrag2 1 month ago
@noisyrag2 Get back to me when you're raped as a child. Then I'll listen to your bullshit. It's already too late for you to understand, I'm sure, but non-survivors will never know what it's like to be sexually abused and tormented when you're a child. I get so fucking sick of you people who got to develop normally judging us for not being like you. They have scientifically proven it actually alters brain development. What that FEELS like is self-hatred, self-blame and suicidal ideation.
LanceHertford 1 month ago
@LanceHertford Shut the fuck up, asshole. You don't know what happened to me when I was a kid, but I'm not going to blast on here what happened to me. I can't understand how Shawn feels because I was never kidnapped and tortured by a stranger like he was, and unless you were, then you can't understand how he really feels either.
noisyrag2 1 month ago
@808Lana They wanted to move him for his protection but his family wouldn't allow it, even they think the piece of crap should die.
ChristinaDuffer 4 weeks ago
He didn't ask for help because kidnapped children are always trained to lie.
Try looking at the testimonies of other children in similar situations - Natasha Kanpusch, Steven Stayner, Elisabeth Smart.
TheCheetah666 10 months ago 2
See this is what I don't understand. This dude was not holding him captive. He allowed him to do whatever he wanted it seems. Neighbors always saw Shawn hanging outside with the other kids. One neighbor even said Shawn was good friends with her son and slept over at their house a bunch of times. Shawn had plenty of opportunities to tell someone that he was abducted and being sexually abused. Even in this video theres plenty of people in at store he could've asked for help. Why didn't he?
noisyrag2 11 months ago
@noisyrag2 Still til this day I think the same thing. but who knows. thank God his safe and back at how. Hope those 4years of him missing don't follow him in life. im sure he just wants this to be over i'm sure.
nich1010 11 months ago
@nich1010 I'm starting to think Devlin brainwashed him or something. I too hope he's able to put that living nightmare behind him. I think he will because he seems like a strong guy. After he survived that hell he went back to school and studied hard to be able to graduate with his old schoolmates. He's also dedicated himself to helping other kidnapped kids, and I'm pretty sure he's studying child psychology in college.
noisyrag2 11 months ago
@noisyrag2 That's a great question but it we would never know. Only Shawn knows because HE was the one actually held captive for 4 1/2 years. We may question and question, but we would never get the real answer because WE never went through that like he did or Jaycee Dugard did.
lollypop2143 8 months ago
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litwriter100 7 months ago
@lollypop2143 There was a case very much like this involving an *adult* young woman who had been kept as an abject slave for a period of time but later was allowed not only to go out, but to get a job and visit her mother! Devlin puzzles me as much if not more. He must have wanted the kid very badly to have taken the chances he had. Leaving the poor kid tied-up in his apartment for hours at a time--for a month!--while he worked? How could anyone function taking that kind of chance?
litwriter100 7 months ago
@noisyrag2 "the dude was not holding him captive" What part of being kidnapped from your home, being raped every night, and being told that if you even look at someone in a way that might be remotely suggestive of being held against your will battery acid would be poured on your family isn't considered "captive" ?
MissusNorris 1 month ago
@MissusNorris Look, I'm not doubting that sick fuck abused him and fucked with his head. I think he might've brainwashed him or something, because Shawn acted as though he belonged there. Neighbors always saw him out there hanging with the other kids. One neighbor even said he was her sons best friend, and that he slept over her house a lot. She said he didn't show any signs of what was happening. She said he seemed like a regular kid. Why didn't he say anything to anyone?
noisyrag2 1 month ago