Shawn Hornbeck's Harrowing Tale of Abuse As Kidnap Victim

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.