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And never give up that hope. never. because you never know. well, they never gave up hope and today gina is home with her family. i spoke with shawn hornbeck earlier. and before i agreed not to talk about what he went throughout of respect for his privacy and recover. i also talked to his parents, craig and pam acres. sean, when you hear the family of gina dejesus talk about your rescue, that it gave them home to be stronger, what goes through your mind? it just shows that, you know, people are watching, and it shows that my story has really touched some people in ways that we could hope that it did. and it just makes me feel happy. pam, how important is it? and how difficult is it to keep hope alive while your child is missing? for me, it wasn t all that difficult. i always felt like i still had that connection to shaun. i always told myself that if he ....
Throw out all those questions. we know everybody is curious and everybody wants answers. but now is not the time. answers will come. there s no rush. it s been ten years. we don t need to learn all these details tomorrow. maybe never. only when they re comfortable talking about it should they come out with it. and how are things now, shaun? how is your life now? my life now is actually pretty fantastic. you know, i work a 40-hour a week job. i mean, just your standard 21-year-old. got my bills that i pay, and nothing real special. he says that he s nothing special, but, you know, in our eyes, and i m sure a million other people s eyes, he is special. i am very proud of what he has accomplished since he has been home. and, you know, that s one reason why we re doing all these interviews, is to let other victims out there know that there is life after this. that you can go on. ....
Shaun hornbeck who vanished in 2002 in missouri stayed with his captor, too, for more than four years. even though police say he was free to play outside, even sleep at a friend s house. for all of these victims, escaping the monsters who took them isn t nearly as easy as it may seem. randi kaye, cnn, atlanta. we re going to talk to sean hornbeck coming up. joining me now is laura cowen, held captive for four years by a controlling polygamist husband, mentally traumatized and managed to escape. she was hput in a garage for si months. can you explain what makes somebody stay? that s the question people don t understand. i know, everybody asks why do women stay. and there s so many different reasons. it s not just one. i mean, it s threats. i m quite sure the women were threatened. i was threatened. ....
Had had passed on or something bad had happened to him, i would know it, i would feel it. and i just never got that. and also too, when you re in a situation like we were in, you either decide that you re going to be on a dark side or you re going to be on a light side. and i just chose to make sure that we stayed on the light side. shaun, i ve heard some people talk about how when someone goes through something like this, an abduction of this nature, of this kind of length, that some people may never recover. you say you don t believe that. talk to me about that. well, it really depends on the individual, and how much support they get. i mean, from day one, my family was there for me. to let me know that i was safe and i was okay and i had nothing to worry about anymore. and to me, that s what helped me out the most, was knowing that i had their support and everything was going to be okay. and i didn t need to burden myself with it. craig, i remember in interviews after shaun re ....
You can feel that love again. you can feel that trust. and then for the families that are still out there of missing children, it gives them hope that, you know, their child may be gone for a year or two, four, ten, you just never know. but they can also too come home. there is light at the end of the tunnel for some families out there. pam, shaun and craig, i appreciate talking to you. thank you so much for taking the time. thank you. thank you, anderson. it s hard to imagine the mental torture parents go through when their children are missing for years. in 2003, shawn hornbeck s parents went on the monday tell william show to get help from a self-professed psychic, sylvia brown. take a listen. her we go again with the wooded area, southwest of you. is there any landmarks around? yeah, strangely enough, there are two jagged boulders, which look really misplaced. because everything is trees, and then all of a sudden you ve got these stupid boulders sitting there. and ....