This topic scares the heck out of me. Lola and Hannelore, your stories are so sad. I'm so sorry you had to experience that. Lola, did you have to go to court for this?

We once lost our youngest son on the beach of all places. We immediately noticed he was gone and all went in different directions searching for him. He was of walking age, not even two years-old. A woman saw us looking and said she saw him follow another lady down the beach that she assumed he thought was his mother. We headed in that direction and sure enough he was right there. This was only moments, but like Lola and Hannelore, those horrible, frightful feelings close in one me even as I type. I can't imagine living without a child due to abduction, day in and day out. God, spare us.

I haven't followed this too closely. Shawn is the older child, right? Can you imagine being his parents for all those years and then the sheer joy of learning he was alive and then getting to embrace him? I pray he can resume a somewhat normal kife and that he isn't too scarred by everything he was fed mentally by his abducter.

Oh, and the media is maddening.