I am so sick and mad that people are saying he enjoyed being with that monster. I can see why people wonder way he hasn't ran or tell someone, call home maybe. It would of been so easy.
Yes, there is something strange about Hornbeck. Wouldn't you be after going through what he did and then coming home after 4 yrs? I know how this boy can be feeling in some ways. I was sexual abused by my step Father. For 6 yrs. this happened to me. I didn't tell for yrs. Then when I did. The school did nothing. They had me tell my mom. When I did she did nothing. She is married to him till this day. It took my older sister finding help. After she went to my school, and they said it was a family matter, they wasn't going to get involved. My own grandparents knew something was going on, but never asked. I also had friends that I told just a few close ones. No one would help or say anything. I mean come on. I was scared to death of this man my whole life, and no one not even my mom did anything about it. He went to jail and pleaded guilty. My mother still stayed with him. That gos to show how people will not look twice at what the real picture is. That they just don't care to get involved.
Hornbeck was 11 and this man took him from his family. Almost an hr away from all that he knew. Who the hell says he got freedom. You never do. I don't care what people say. It plays on your mind everyday. The threats this man has put on him. Even if Hornbeck did run away from home thinking this man would be a friend and have all this freedom to do whatever. I can't see it, he was to young to think about running away. Unless things was really bad at home. It sounds to me that things was just fine at home. But lets just say that was the case. Who's the adult here? The man still had an under age boy. That was all over the news. I can see that Hornbeck could of been ashamed to come home and explain what happened. He probably thought his family has moved on. So he did too. Who knows what runs through a teens head. Who knows what he was thinking. I just know being abused, being taken away from family and being brain washed by a man for 4 yrs. You will believe what your being told. You get told your a peace of s**t, over and over again. You start to believe it. And for a 11, even a 15 yr old, they will believe it before an adult would.
As for the gifts, that Devlin gave this boy. I feel this was a way of not making Hornbeck feel like a prisoner. Well, people it worked. The so called freedom he got. Playing games with this boy. Devlin is a sick man.
As for the girlfriend, who's to say if he even told her. Who's to say Devlin even knew. He did work two jobs, yes?
As for the police stopping him and coming by for a bike that was taken. They wasn't doing there job. It makes me so mad to think this boy was face to face and had the chance to say something. Not, mad at him just at the police. I'm sure Hornbeck thought if they doesn't ask why tell. He probably thought they wouldn't believe him.This just shows us that people don't pay no mind to our children, people in need. That we think something could be wrong, but in our own minds think we are being crazy, that our mind is playing tricks on us. Well, I say I would rather look or seem crazy and say something, try to get someone to listen. Or that people don't want to get involved and go through the mess of talkng to the police and being wrong. In one interview with a man (that was a neighbor) on the STL Fox news. He said they would hear yelling, whimpering, crying, cussing, like someone being abused. HELLO! Why didn't someone call the people then? This boy could of wind up dead. Cause we as people don't want to get involved. What is this message we are sending to our children? Huh, makes you think twice on why Hornbeck didn't say anything. Plus I'm sure Hornbeck knew Devlin watched the news. Knew what his parents looked like. He knew where the home town was. He probably thought if he ran, or whatever. That Devlin would come back to kill or get him. Remember children will believe anything as a child. He still is a child, people!
Now for the ones thinking"Why are these parents parading these boys through the media"? Well, I'm sure if the boys wasn't up to it they wouldn't do it. This is a big story. I think I would work with the media than have them camped out in my front yard. Wouldn't you?
Listen I could go on forever. I have gotten to obsessed with this story. I don't think anyone has the answer. Only Hornbeck does. I just hope maybe people would stop making Hornbeck more of a victim than he already has been. Pointing a finger at this boy is wrong. Until you know what it feels liked to be abused and have a understanding of this. Stop saying things your not sure is true. I have a bad feeling that these boys was abused in some way. In the interview with Oprah. Hornbeck said to Oprah "He had hoped no other person would have to go through what he did" And that he was happy that Ben came along, Not that he had to go through what he did. That statement to me means something happened. I Mean come on why would on adult man kidnap a child for, unless it was meant for. Well you know, I don't want to say it. Makes me sick thinking about it. I just hope these boys get the help they need, to deal with whatever it was that did happened. Yes, I would like to know the the whole story. But, really would you want the whole world to know about you if you was in these boys shoes? HUH? Maybe that's what we should be asking ourselves. I could see the sadness in Hornbeck's eyes and the happiness. He is filled with mixed feelings. But the way he looks at his parents and the way he hugged the people that did take action and didn't go "I must be crazy." I can tell he is happy to be home.