FOUND: the missing boy in Missouri

[Jim Franklin]

who had been missing several days along with another boy who had been abducted and missing for over 4 years. Praise the Lord for these families.

[Terri Knoll]

crying...I am so happy

[Marg Webb]

who had been missing several days along with another boy who had been abducted and missing for over 4 years. Praise the Lord for these families.

Do you have anymore information.
While in N. Mi. years ago we were offered a little boy.
By the time all was reported it was thought they were in Canada.
A month later Readers Digest had his picture with others that were missing.
We contacted the Digest No. and the Washington D.C. No. with our information. I never heard if they were found.
Washington said they would inform us if he was found but there never was a call.
I am so happy these children are found. PRAISE GOD!!!

[Sara Sheppard]

This is really a miracle. Even for the boy that was abducted this week, it is a miracle. These cases so often are unresolved or end up with a dead child. But, add to that miracle the other child - it is totally toally unbelieveable.

Praise God.

Sara

[Jim Franklin]

Marg, I picked up on Fox News. I imagine there will be quite a piece on it tomorrow night on "America's Most Wanted." There was a case some years ago of a boy abducted in California many years ago and he had been held virtually as a slave for about 12 years. About a year or two after he was adjusting back to his family he was killed in a traffic accident.

[Gina Stevenson]

How sad, to get rescued only to have that then happen!

ANYWAY, had to chime in here, too, about the topic. The book I just got done editing was about this topic---tho' it involved a bit more (various reasons, etc). Don't want to give away the ending, but it was written based on much research, then written as a novel, with some drama/action thrown in. Includes notes (in back) re what much research found. Sad that it's more common than we like to think, though it's not on the news everyday. You see, the author learned, while attending a parents' support group after a child died, that many were there not due to a child's dying of some disease or other, but were missing/dead due to such things as this.

The characters seem very real, BTW ... they did a good job of bringing the matter to one's attention in a way that might "grab" someone ... writes in an interesting manner. Different ones, including my niece, who were being told a bit about it [by the author out in AZ, and here by me] commented that there was enough action, etc, that a movie should be made of the book. We shall see, eh? ;) After really getting into the story while editing, I said, "I'll help with the screenplay, too, OK?" ;)

Marg, I picked up on Fox News. I imagine there will be quite a piece on it tomorrow night on "America's Most Wanted." There was a case some years ago of a boy abducted in California many years ago and he had been held virtually as a slave for about 12 years. About a year or two after he was adjusting back to his family he was killed in a traffic accident.

[Sue Pyles]

I heard the stepfather 's interview this morning on the news.
It was so touching. The boy and his mother were also present.
The mother spoke , but not the boy. He probably will in time.
It was obvious they were all 3 excited about their reunion.
I haven't seen anything yet regarding the most recent boy who was abducted other than the fact that he had been found as well.
It truly is a miracle.

[David Cash]

The story was among the headline type items on Google News today. This is really great news! When I saw the report on the news at work this week, I assumed the most recently snatched one was probably dead.

It is interesting that he had been a good kid from a home with both parents present and hadn't been involved with the kind of online activity that gets kids hooked up with predators. Those facts wouldn't save him from a creep, but they do warn us that bad things don't only happen to kids from troubled backgrounds.

It would probably be appropriate to keep praying for these boys and their families. While we all hope that the captivity wasn't as evil and traumatic as it could have been, we don't know the full range of emotional trauma they've experienced. There may be some real need for inner healing yet despite this initial happy ending.

David Cash