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#1 User is offline   asylum_souljah 

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Posted 01 September 2006 - 11:26 PM

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The mother of a boy abducted 24 years ago said she's bewildered by two photographs left at her front door, apparently showing her son and two other children bound and gagged.

The old photos appear to show 12-year-old Johnny Gosch with his mouth gagged and his hands and feet tied. The boy is wearing the same sweat pants Johnny was wearing when he disappeared while delivering newspapers on the morning of September 5, 1982, his mother said.


Full article: http://www.cnn.com/2...s.ap/index.html


I cant even imagine why someone would do this to the loved ones of anyone murdered or missing for such a long time. I also cant imagine what this lady must have felt or gone through when she found the pictures on her stoop.

Heres some background from Wikipedia:

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On Sunday, September 5, 1982, in the affluent suburb of West Des Moines, Johnny Gosch left home for his paper route before dawn. Though it was customary for Johnny to wake his father to help with the route, the boy took only the family dog, Gretchen, with him that morning. Other paper carriers for The Des Moines Register would later report having seen Gosch at the paper drop, picking up his newspapers. It was the last sighting of Johnny Gosch that can be corroborated by multiple witnesses. Gosch was last seen wearing blue rubber thong sandals, warm up exercise pants, and a white sweatshirt reading "Kim's Academy" on the back.

John and Noreen Gosch, Johnny's parents, began receiving phone calls from customers along their son's route, complaining of undelivered papers. John Gosch performed a cursory search of the neighborhood around 6 AM. He immediately found Johnny's wagon full of newspapers, two blocks from their home.


Full article: http://en.wikipedia....ki/Johnny_Gosch
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Posted 02 September 2006 - 03:39 PM

This is really disturbing, and sad. I feel alot of anger actually after reading that. And I was completely shocked when I saw that picture. It's just sick.
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Posted 02 September 2006 - 03:50 PM

Just to put a bit of perspective on this: (and recalling the panic that stranger awareness day at school put into us kids in the 60s & 70s)

Statistically, a huge majority of child abductions are by a parent or relative. The number of abductions by strangers is relatively small. You are more likely to get struck by lightning or bitten by a shark than your child is to be grabbed by a stranger.
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Posted 02 September 2006 - 05:35 PM

Thats true Trin, personally Id rather be bitten by a shark or struck by lightening than have this happen to me.

It also makes it all that much worse - to think that it could be her own uncle/brother/sister/great nephew etc who took her child - still has the pictures and is willing to parade them in front of her to further the anguish is just sickening moreso than ever.
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Posted 02 September 2006 - 06:27 PM

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Thats true Trin, personally Id rather be bitten by a shark or struck by lightening than have this happen to me.

It also makes it all that much worse - to think that it could be her own uncle/brother/sister/great nephew etc who took her child - still has the pictures and is willing to parade them in front of her to further the anguish is just sickening moreso than ever.



Oh exactly... But part of why I had to bring up the parental/family abduction is that we used to have an assembly day at school, where they scared the you-know-what out of us kids about stranger=danger... when the reality was, if any of us were going to be assaulted/abused it was most likely to be someone we knew...who didn't fit the "stranger = danger" formula. For a few weeks we were scared of every little thing, (this being the 60's -70's it's possible that familial abductions/abuse were rarely even reported. ).

They could have been teaching us basic "street smarts" and safety, but just scared us all senseless... for a week or two.


It can be just as terrifying, to have a child snatched by a family member during or as a custody dispute. Suddenly, someone who had been a loved one, and "seemed normal" seems completely unpredictable. Often the parental/familial abduction is ignored or minimized by how it's handled by the legal system. "It's just a custody dispute.." "It's his/her own child/family member OF COURSE they won't hurt them... " and that isn't necessarily true.
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Posted 13 September 2006 - 06:42 PM

Turns out, it was a sick joke.... the boy in the pics was not her son... but of another kid. The pictures were taken a few years before her son was kidnapped, and the detective who investigated the original photos said that no charges were filed in his case because the boys claimed that they posed for them willingly. Here's the link to the article.... http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14818169/
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Posted 14 September 2006 - 01:00 AM

Thats actually a relief to know. But still - its a blimmin horrible thing to to anyone as a hoax or otherwise...
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