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O'Reilly: "The situation here for this kid looks to me to be a lot more fun than what he had under his old parents. He didn't have to go to school. He could run around and do whatever he wanted. " O'Reilly has zero sympathy for Shawn Hornbeck, the young boy, that was being held captive for the past 4 years. He accuses the boy of prefering being a sex slave and raped (and who knows what else he had to witness/endure in the past four years!) instead of staying at home and going to school. WTF?! This is no runaway - this kid was KIDNAPPED when he was ELEVEN YEARS OLD! Please contact FOX to take O'Reilly off the air. Enough is enough already. Contact information: FOX News Channel 1-888-369-4762 Comments@foxnews.com 1211 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036 When contacting the media, please be polite and professional. Express your specific concerns regarding that particular news report or commentary, and be sure to indicate exactly what you would like the media outlet to do differently in the future. -----------added Oct17th2007---------- sniplet from a newsweek article. For all you naysayers out there who don't get the horror this CHILD went thru: ... ....Cut off from his parents, Shawn became completely dependent on a 6-foot-4, 300-pound strange man for food, sleep, warmth, attention and affection. According to the Associated Press, Shawn said that at times Devlin awakened him every 45 minutes. (Sleep deprivation is often used as torture by intelligence services.) Yet, at the same time, Devlin showered Shawn with goodies. The 11-year-old boy no longer had to go to school. He could watch TV and play videogames all day. He was given an iPod, a computer, an Xbox 360 and a bike. And he was almost surely threatened with gruesome consequences if he said a word about his abduction to anyone else. Child kidnappers "know how to create a paralyzing sense of fear so even when the captor is not present, the child feels he is omnipresent," says Dr. Terri Weaver, psychology professor at Saint Louis University. "Their mental package is very coercive, very convincing, very mean. They don't just say, 'I'll kill your family.' They tell how they'll do it in graphic detail and manner—how they'll kill the child's family and even pets." Harry Reichard lived upstairs from Devlin at the Kirkwood apartments. He says he often heard "weird sounds," like whimpering, screaming and pleading. Once, says Reichard, "it was like Shawn was trying to get [Devlin] to stop doing something." At another time, Reichard says, he heard Devlin yell, "What the f—- did you do that for, you f—-ing idiot?" The shouting was followed by what sounded like a blow. There was often loud banging and blaring music, including "horrorcore" bands like Insane Clown Posse and Twiztid. "It was like a maniacal workshop," says Reichard, who thought Devlin and Shawn were having father-and-son disagreements. There had been hints about Devlin's private life. Some time before Shawn arrived to live with him, Laura Aguilar, another neighbor, happened to look through Devlin's street-level bathroom window. She was disconcerted to see a variety of what appeared to be sexual toys. Other neighbors noticed Devlin had a temper......