Yeah, I’m not surprised. I’d imagine an experience like being kidnapped would really change someone. Glad the little fella’s made it back to his family.
-Ken M
Oh shit, is Ken M still around?
that’s his signature, proof enough for me
GOOD point
God I wish, lol. Pretty sure he’s long since retired.
This headline just inspired me to channel his spirit, lol.
Ken M. works like the dread pirate Roberts. You are the new Ken M. now.
Wife says dead pirate robots kidnapped that boy, and altered his DNA.
We are all Ken M on this blessed day!
Speak for yourself!
I am all Ken M on this blessed day!
The ritual is complete! The prophecy is accomplished!
Man, and the kid they DID bring back they basically stole from another family.
It doesn’t even seem clear that the real Bobby Dunbar was kidnapped. He disappeared while on a fishing trip. An accident seems more likely than a kidnapping.
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Just another case of poor people’s kids being stolen and having no legal recourse.
The “See also” section on that article is bonkers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fronczak_triple_disappearance
That’s some fucked up shit!
i’m suprised no one seems to have point-blank asked him who his parents were in court, or if they did why that wasn’t the beginning and end of the case
Because he was a four year old boy, I reckon.
This was back in the era where ‘children should be seen and not heard’. So the kid and his opinions weren’t considered important, unfortunately.
What’s the old trope where a dog or cat comes running to its true owner? They could have set something like that up with the kid. That or the Solomon treatment.
Well nobody was seeing the kid because the two look nothing alike in that comparison photo from the newspapers.
Oh that’s still a phenomenon today. There’s a great Boondocks episode about it - s1e2 “The Trial of R. Kelly”. A famous musician (R. Kelly) gets charged for peeing on a 14-year old girl (in a kind of sexual way, i’d say). During court, a lot of arguments are made:
- (prosecutor) A crime is a crime no matter who commits it
- (prosecutor) She was clearly underage, there’s unambiguous video footage of the incident
- (prosecutor) Where would we be if we allowed lawlessness to rule?
- (defendant) R. Kelly is black and therefore racially persecuted
- (defendant) Even the greeks did sexual acts with underage people, and didn’t they lay the foundation for our glorious nation?
- (defendant) His music is cool and the people like him, so who cares
In the end, people start playing music in the courtroom, people start dancing and R. Kelly is set free. It’s such a comically brilliant way to display the absurdity of life. It’s available for free here btw. Watch it, it’s worth it.
During the whole trial, nobody thought of asking the victim whether she feels she was abused. At some point, she casually mentions she didn’t mind it and would voluntarily do it again. Her word wasn’t even considered during the whole trial.
Her word wasn’t even considered during the whole trial.
Nor should it have been.
There’s a reason some crimes are statutory, this is not at all even comparable to asking the child regarding factual information of the case.
There have been multiple instances this week where I have seen someone on Lemmy dismissing statutory rape because “the victims didn’t even feel victimized.” Honestly, I’m starting to wonder how much of it was because of the Fox News anchor’s “uhm ackshually Trump can’t be a pedophile because the girls were pubescent. At worst, he would be an ehebephile” rant.
Has the Overton window really shifted so far that we’re forced into having the “is statutory rape sometimes okay” conversation, like it’s some sort of rational political discourse?
Yep! Where’s the voice of the child?
This American Life did a full episode on this.
TAL did a different episode along a similar line where two babies were accidentally switched around in the hospital nursery, so they were raised by the wrong families.
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I mean… this is type of stuff is why I kinda sus if my parents are actually my real parents. (I actually posted a No Stupid Questions post about it) This kind of thing is very common in China where I was from, and the authorities don’t really like talking about the issue because it looks bad. (I think its partially fueled by the One Child Policy.)
But then again, my current parents told me about it so it doesn’t exactly make sense to tell me about the kidnapping issue if they were not my real parents. (Or maybe its the ruse all along… idk thinking about it makes my head spin)
Maybe your parents don’t know either. They’re just covering all their bases. What if you were kidnapped from another family and switched with the baby they had, at a park or something- while no one was looking? Maybe your parents went through the whole changeling movie and just decided to put it to bed and accept the circumstances. This probably brings you no peace, but to be honest; it doesn’t matter too much if you did or didn’t, they’re still your parents for better or worse. (I look almost exactly like my mom, so I know I’m hers, but it’s not a warm thought if it makes you feel better)
So he was a fae.
As a parent with a 4yr old boy, that whole read was terrifying and nauseating.
