CBS aired a 48 hour interview with the child victim Shawn Hornbeck who was kidnapped one afternoon while riding his bike down a dirt road a few miles from his home. The kidnapper Michael Delvin kept Shawn for 4 years, except during the four years Shawn was not physically held by chains or confined in the kidnapper's apartment. The victim was able to live a so-called normal life and even made friends.
The question is why didn't Shawn presented with so many opportunities free himself from his captivity? I recently saw the "O'Reilly factor" on the Shawn Hornbeck case. O'Reilly sinisterly declared on air that the victim must have enjoyed his captivity! Then he ranted on about how he didn’t buy into the child possibly suffering from Stockholm's syndrome.
In Shawn's case Stockholm's syndrome is very possible in fact very logical. Stockholm's syndrome is when a victim living in isolation however tormented and abused will develop sympathy for their captor, when given tokens of love and showed some kindness. This mentality is sort of warped and makes sense in my opinion in Shawn's case. He begged for his life the first night he was abducted and pleaded with the kidnapper, not to kill him…The child did not see another way out…he felt kidnapper Delvin had the power over him... and this sort of loyalty that Shawn developed to stay around "willingly" was the child's only way of survival.
Shawn Hornbeck was merely only 11 years old at the time he was taken away and I can't imagine the horrendous terror he underwent at the hands of such an abuser...Shawn did what he had to do to survive...he submitted to the kidnappers will and survived...he was kidnapped at a very tender impressionable age...only he understands his own pain...as much as the media and O'Reilly tries to take a twisted shallow approach in reasoning with the facts of the Hornbeck case, the truth remains Shawn Hornbeck is a survivor and unfortunately the media especially O'Reilly (why is this guy on the air?) has done a terrible injustice in exploiting this case.
2 comments:
pull more facts about, the reporter question and not the victim?, what about the victim, where's his story, lets focus on his expeirience, his pain and incredible survivor, did he understand that he could of left?, taken as a baby! the answer is no, torchered and raped over and over again, I feel the pain, I lietrally feel it!
is he 21 yet? he can get serious restitution!
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