Michael Devlin

Pedophile Michael Devlin offered no apologies in court this week but elaborated why his captive  Shawn Hornbeck stayed with him more than four years: The terrorized young man cut a deal just as Devlin was beginning to strangle him to death. “This boy made this contract, this deal with the devil, only to survive,” Washington County prosecutor John Rupp said. Christopher Leonard, AP reporter who broke the story in January when Shawn and Ben Ownby were found alive has has followed up with...Read Full Story

Michael Devlin, 41, is charged with abducting Ben Ownby after the boy stepped off a school bus earlier this month. But Michael Devlin is pleading "Not Guilty" to the charges. His case is all over the news. Devlin’s attorneys told reporters today that they want the case moved out of Franklin County. “There’s no way we can get a fair trial in this county with the amount of attention it’s gotten,” defense attorney Michael Kielty said. It is probably true - this story has been all...Read Full Story

Shawn Hornbeck was kidnapped by Michael Devlin. For four years, Hornbeck lived with Devlin. Hornbeck had the chances to escape but he didn’t. Psychology experts believed Hornbeck was psyched by Devlin.Read Full Story

Shawn Hornbeck has endured what no child should ever have to experience. In October 2002, Hornbeck was kidnapped at age 11 and suffered unspeakable abuses at the hands of his abductor, Michael Devlin , until he was rescued by FBI agents in January 2007. “Nobody knows the real story except for me,” says Hornbeck, 17. “There wasn’t a day when I didn’t think he was just gonna kill me…[sometimes] it seemed I was better off dead than living through that.” Read more...Read Full Story

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