There had been this mystery behind the news story of the two missing Missouri boys who were supposedly abducted by a 41-year-old regular looking guy. One of the boys (Shawn Hornbeck) had been living with him and calling him father for the past 4 years, apparently with full knowledge that his family desperately trying to find him and freedom to get away from the captor, should he choose to do so. But he didn't.
When the story first broke, everyone saw a miracle (of how two missing boys were recovered). As the story drags on, we now know the facts are probably much more complicated than that. The long missing boy apparently stayed with his supposedly abductor, making a new life, and even posting messages on his parents' website almost taunting them and asking how long they plan on looking for their missing boy (himself).
While we would love to blame it all on the bad guy, and believe it that the kid must be innocent. There is this underlying cruelty of this boy's act that I don't think simply blaming it on Stockholm Syndrome works. If we take a look at the girl in Europe (was it Germany?) last year, who ran away after some 10 years of captivity when she finally had the chance; and then this boy who enjoyed unparallel freedom under this abductor, but would not do so, we should all admit that something else is cooking.
Was the boy gay? Did he collaborate and run away from home, to begin with, and this old guy was just helping? Did they have a prior relationship, predating his disappearance? Was his family relationship strained when this all happened?
We might never find out. I certainly hope that his story would eventually come out, so that we as parents could do a better job in childrearing, should it turn out to be due to family issues.
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