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{{short description|Foundation for missing children}}
The '''Shawn Hornbeck Foundation''' is a ] ] based in ], devoted to the search for and rescue of abducted children. It runs the '''Shawn Hornbeck Search and Rescue Team''', which was founded by Pam and Craig Akers following the disappearance of their son Shawn Hornbeck, aged 11, on ], ], while riding his bicycle near his home in Richwoods. Shawn Hornbeck was missing for over four years before being discovered on ], ] by police searching for another missing child. Hornbeck and the other child were found in the apartment of ] in ]. ], Devlin has been charged with ], ], and producing ].
The '''Shawn Hornbeck Foundation''' was a ] ] based in ], devoted to the search for and rescue of abducted children. It ran the Shawn Hornbeck Search and Rescue Team.


The rescue team was founded by Pam and Craig Akers following the disappearance of their son Shawn Hornbeck (born July 17, 1991<ref>{{cite web| url= https://www.komu.com/news/shawn-hornbeck-celebrated-16th-birthday-with-family|title=Shawn Hornbeck Celebrated 16th Birthday with Family| website= KOMU.com| publisher= | date=July 18, 2007}}</ref>). Hornbeck was eleven years old on October 6, 2002, when he was kidnapped while riding his bicycle near his home in Richwoods, Missouri. Shawn Hornbeck was missing for over four years before being discovered on January 12, 2007, along with another teenage boy, Ben Ownby. They had been kidnapped by ].
⚫ The Shawn Hornbeck Search and Rescue Team is a member of NASAR (]) and a member of SARCOM (]). It is also involved with the ]. Following the recovery of Shawn Hornbeck, the family announced that they intended to withdraw from active involvement with the foundation, leaving its operation to family friend and co-founder Chris Diamond.


⚫ The Shawn Hornbeck Search and Rescue Team was a member of NASAR (National Association for Search and Rescue) and a member of SARCOM (Search and Rescue Council of Missouri). It was also involved with the National Search Dog Association.


=='''Shawn Hornbeck'''== == History ==
The Akers founded the Shawn Hornbeck Search and Rescue Team following the disappearance of their son Shawn Hornbeck. Hornbeck was eleven years old when he was kidnapped while riding his bicycle near his ] home on October 6, 2002.
Shawn Damian Hornbeck (born 1991) is an American child from , who disappeared in 2002 and was found more than four years later. The police have stated that he was and subjected to forcible by .


Shortly after Hornbeck's disappearance, his parents appeared on '']'', where self-described psychic ] erroneously told the Akers that Hornbeck was dead. Browne also described the ], telling them several things about the abductor that later proved to be incorrect.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://stopsylvia.com/articles/montel_shawnhornbeck2.shtml | title=Follow-up to 'Montel: Shawn Hornbeck Reading' | last= Lancaster| first= Robert | authorlink=Robert S. Lancaster | website= stopsylvia.com| publisher=Stop Sylvia Browne | date=May 26, 2007 | accessdate=July 13, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWlscV3mvL4 |via = YouTube |url-status=dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20160305175341/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWlscV3mvL4 |archivedate=March 5, 2016 |title=SYLVIA BROWN WRONG: Shawn Hornbeck |accessdate=December 9, 2009}}</ref>
==Disappearance==
His family reported him missing October 6, 2002, when he did not return to his home in rural Richwoods after a bicycle ride. Following his disappearance, his parents appeared on several high-profile television shows to help gain national attention for the search. They enlisted the help of professional psychics such as and , both of whom stated that Shawn was dead, and gave instructions on where to search for his body. His parents founded the Shawn Hornbeck Foundation, a charity devoted to the search for and rescue of abducted children.


Hornbeck was missing for over four years before being discovered on January 12, 2007. Police were searching for 13-year-old Ben Ownby of ] (about {{cvt|40|mi}} away from Richwoods, Missouri), who had gone missing earlier that week. Aided by a descriptive tip from teenager Mitchell Hults of Beaufort,<ref>{{cite news| url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/16/AR2007011601041.html | title=Teen Called Hero for Missing-Boy Tip | date=January 17, 2007 | newspaper=] | last= Leonard| first=Christopher | accessdate=July 13, 2010 }}</ref> police searched ]'s apartment in ] (about {{cvt|50|mi}} from Beaufort). Hornbeck and Ownby were both found alive there.<ref>{{cite news| agency= Associated Press| title= Missing boy in the open: Child had encounter with police just 10 months after disappearance| work= ]| date= January 21, 2007| page= A7}}</ref>
==Rediscovery==
On January 12, 2007, he was discovered living with Michael Devlin in . Devlin has been charged with kidnapping Hornbeck as well as 13-year-old Ben Ownby . He has also been charged with 52 counts of forcible sodomy on Shawn, four felony counts of production of child pornography, two felony counts of transportation of a minor for a criminal sex act, inflicting injury, terrorizing and attempted murder by suffocation. Since February 2007 he is being held on a $1,000,000 bond.


== Prosecution ==
==While living with Devlin==
In June 2007, Devlin was charged with 80 counts in the abductions and ] of Hornbeck and Ownby. On October 8, 2007, Devlin pleaded guilty to all charges filed against him and was sentenced to ].<ref name= "OCT">{{cite news| url= https://www.foxnews.com/story/devlin-pleads-guilty-to-federal-charges-for-photographing-taping-kidnapped-boy |title= Devlin Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges for Photographing, Taping Kidnapped Boy| website= FoxNews.com| date= 10 October 2007| access-date= June 11, 2016}}</ref>
Neighbors report that Shawn Hornbeck was allowed outside unsupervised, while Michael Devlin worked as a manager at Imo's Pizza and also at a funeral home.


== See also ==
made him the subject of the January 18, 2007 episode of . The show contained a pretaped interview and live introductions from Oprah. Oprah said during the live part of this show that Shawn told her off camera that he never tried to escape because he was "terrified". He also stated that he often prayed to be reunited with his family. When asked if they thought Shawn had been sexually abused, his parents nodded their heads yes. During his stay with Devlin, Shawn did not attend school, but he had friends. Tony Douglas, a neighbor who lived in the same apartment complex, was Shawn's best friend and spent nights over in the Devlin apartment. Shawn told Douglas that his mother had died in a car accident, that he attended a private school, and that he was later home schooled. According to Douglas' stepmother, Shawn had seen coverage of his disappearance on TV but brushed off inquiries. "There was times when we would see something about Shawn Hornbeck on TV," Douglas said. "He would be in the room. We would even kind of giggle, you know, 'you look just like Shawn Hornbeck.' He never acted upon it, no response, nothing. He didn't look sad, get up and go out of the room, anything that would lead to us believing that he was actually Shawn Hornbeck." Tony Douglas also was seen in a truck, with Shawn driving. Students from Visitation Academy of St. Louis, a private girls school, say that on December 9, 2006, Shawn attended a school dance with his girlfriend, who is a student at the school.
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Some news organizations say he also may have posted messages to the guest book of , the website his parents created to find him. At 1:59 a.m. on December 1, 2005, a "Shawn Devlin" posted on the site's forum, asking "How long are you planing to look for your son?". Then at 2:56 p.m. the same day, "Shawn Devlin" posted on the forums again, asking if he could compose a poem for the family. The poem never appeared on the website. Online profiles were also created on Yahoo, in the name of Shawn Devlin, and on MindViz.com, which described a Shawn from St. Louis. Pictures were included, showing a boy presumed to be Shawn.
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Some news sources suggested Shawn may have fallen victim to Stockholm syndrome, in which hostages or kidnapping victims sometimes befriend their captors.
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Shawn reportedly told Oprah Winfrey off-camera he was "terrified." Other children kidnapped and held for a long time have also rejected the Stockholm Syndrome diagnosis, explaining that terror was the motivating force behind their decisions to remain and live rather than attempt to escape and risk death. Other victims of childhood sexual abuse have explained their understanding and support of Shawn's decisions.


⚫ ==References==
*. BBC.Co.UK (13 Jan 2007). Retrieved on 13 Jan 2007.
*. Fox Television Stations, Inc. (13 Jan 2007). Retrieved on 13 Jan 2007.
*. ''Daily Journal Online'' (27 Feb 2003). Retrieved on 26 Jan 2007.
*, ''St Louis Today'', Apr 17, 2007. Retrieved on 27 May 2007
*, ''St Louis Today'', 3 Mar 2007. Retrieved on 27 May 2007

*Mitch Marconi (13 Jan 2007). . The Post Chronicle. Retrieved on 13 Jan 2007.
*Fox 13 in Memphis, 5 Feb 2007
*, Blogs.Riverfronttimes.com, 17 Apr 2007

*"Living with Evil", Newsweek, 29 January 2007, pp. 48–55.
*Associated Press. , FoxNews. 19 January 2007. Retrieved on 28 Jan 2007.
*. KTVI (13 Jan 2007). Retrieved on 16 Jan 2007.
*. Fox News Channel (15 Jan 2007). Retrieved on 15 Jan 2007.
*. St. Louis Post-Dispatch (2007-01-19). Retrieved on 2007-01-19.
* at Mindviz.com

*. CNN.com (2007-01-15). Retrieved on 2007-01-15.
*. Retrieved on 2007-03-01.
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* January 18, 2007 (2007-01-15). Retrieved on 2007-03-01.

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Latest revision as of 20:03, 30 September 2024

Foundation for missing children

The Shawn Hornbeck Foundation was a non-profit charitable organization based in Richwoods, Missouri, devoted to the search for and rescue of abducted children. It ran the Shawn Hornbeck Search and Rescue Team.

The rescue team was founded by Pam and Craig Akers following the disappearance of their son Shawn Hornbeck (born July 17, 1991). Hornbeck was eleven years old on October 6, 2002, when he was kidnapped while riding his bicycle near his home in Richwoods, Missouri. Shawn Hornbeck was missing for over four years before being discovered on January 12, 2007, along with another teenage boy, Ben Ownby. They had been kidnapped by Michael J. Devlin.

The Shawn Hornbeck Search and Rescue Team was a member of NASAR (National Association for Search and Rescue) and a member of SARCOM (Search and Rescue Council of Missouri). It was also involved with the National Search Dog Association.

History

The Akers founded the Shawn Hornbeck Search and Rescue Team following the disappearance of their son Shawn Hornbeck. Hornbeck was eleven years old when he was kidnapped while riding his bicycle near his Richwoods, Missouri home on October 6, 2002.

Shortly after Hornbeck's disappearance, his parents appeared on The Montel Williams Show, where self-described psychic Sylvia Browne erroneously told the Akers that Hornbeck was dead. Browne also described the abduction, telling them several things about the abductor that later proved to be incorrect.

Hornbeck was missing for over four years before being discovered on January 12, 2007. Police were searching for 13-year-old Ben Ownby of Beaufort, Missouri (about 40 mi (64 km) away from Richwoods, Missouri), who had gone missing earlier that week. Aided by a descriptive tip from teenager Mitchell Hults of Beaufort, police searched Michael J. Devlin's apartment in Kirkwood, Missouri (about 50 mi (80 km) from Beaufort). Hornbeck and Ownby were both found alive there.

Prosecution

In June 2007, Devlin was charged with 80 counts in the abductions and molestations of Hornbeck and Ownby. On October 8, 2007, Devlin pleaded guilty to all charges filed against him and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

See also

References

  1. "Shawn Hornbeck Celebrated 16th Birthday with Family". KOMU.com. July 18, 2007.
  2. Lancaster, Robert (May 26, 2007). "Follow-up to 'Montel: Shawn Hornbeck Reading'". stopsylvia.com. Stop Sylvia Browne. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
  3. "SYLVIA BROWN WRONG: Shawn Hornbeck". Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2009 – via YouTube.
  4. Leonard, Christopher (January 17, 2007). "Teen Called Hero for Missing-Boy Tip". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
  5. "Missing boy in the open: Child had encounter with police just 10 months after disappearance". Albany Times-Union. Associated Press. January 21, 2007. p. A7.
  6. "Devlin Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges for Photographing, Taping Kidnapped Boy". FoxNews.com. 10 October 2007. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
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