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Post by nooks1 on Jan 20, 2007 14:13:08 GMT -5
It's great he's been found but I agree, if he was mine, I wouldn't parade him on TV, I'd just want to spend as much time with him on our own as possible, the poor kid's been gone four years afterall, just let him get used to things again.
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QnRoger
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Post by QnRoger on Jan 20, 2007 14:17:42 GMT -5
In the interview he said he just wanted his life to be the way it was before...that's what really broke my heart.
There's no going back after something like this.
I think the parents should have let his lifesettle down for a while before parading him on national tv.
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Post by roo94 on Jan 20, 2007 16:46:48 GMT -5
As a mother of a young boy (soon to be 7), it terrifies me that a child can be taken like this, and that this man would have the ability to convince the child there was no going back to his family. That guy had him so controlled, he was able to leave him for long periods of time and he never tried to leave or get help - because he was scared. Talk about power to control. I hope that poor child can get some semblance of a life back - he definitely has a long road to travel.
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Post by vonne on Jan 20, 2007 17:02:18 GMT -5
Just last year an Austrian girl who had been missing for 8 years had a change to escape....
She was 10 years old at the time of her kidnapping. She done one interview for television, but you could see she has a long way to go before being able to get back to real life. Last news is she started her education again...
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Post by Electric Gypsy on Jan 21, 2007 16:43:38 GMT -5
**I found this and thought I'd post it on this thread.**
She told them boy was dead
Crystal ball fails psychic in Mo. kidnap
BY CHRISTINA BOYLE
DAILY NEWS WRITER
January 18, 2006
Sylvia Browne
Montel Williams' psychic pal Sylvia Browne told the family of missing Shawn Hornbeck he was dead shortly after the Missouri boy vanished - and later allegedly offered to help locate his body for $700 per half hour.
The popular TV clairvoyant appeared on the "Montel Williams Show" in February 2003, four months after Shawn disappeared, and told Pam and Craig Akers she believed their son was "no longer with us."
She also advised that his body could be found in a wooded area 20 miles from their Richwoods, Mo., home, near two large jagged boulders.
Shawn, now 15, was found alive and well last Friday, living just miles away with a man now charged with snatching the boy when he was 11.
Browne's "vision" of his death caused search teams to redirect their efforts and drew dozens of calls from the public who believed they lived near the woods matching Browne's descriptions.
The family also claims the psychic then tried to cash in, which Browne vigorously denies.
"She called Pam and Craig about one month after the show and pretty much offered her services to continue their discussion for a fee," said Wayne Evans, a spokesman for the Shawn Hornbeck Foundation.
"Pam was that desperate that if she had had $700 in her bank account she would have put it on the table. We are talking about a mother who would have sold her soul to have her boy back."
"Everybody was angry," he added. "Sylvia Browne's name was never brought up again until Shawn was found. He's home now, and that's all that matters."
Browne, a regular guest on the "Montel" show, apologized for her misfire, exposed first by StopSylviaBrowne.com, a blog dedicated to tracking the psychic's every blunder.
"I'm terribly sorry that this happened," she told the Daily News. "But I think my body of work stands by itself. I've broken case after case."
"I think it's just cruel to jump on this one case in which I was wrong," she added defensively. "I've said thousands of times I'm not God."
She also denied ever offering her services to Shawn's family for cash.
"There's never been a case that I've ever charged for a missing child," Browne said. "I would never do that. Never, never."
A spokeswoman for Williams said the talk show host was taping more shows and unavailable for comment. Browne was his only guest on yesterday's show.
Michael Devlin, the 300-pound pizza parlor manager charged with kidnapping Shawn four years ago and a second boy just last week, is to be arraigned today in Missouri courtroom.
He is also under investigation for the disappearance of another boy, Charles Arlin Henderson, 16 years ago.
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