A boy who was abducted in 1994 when he was 5 yrs old by his paternal grandparents has been found ALIVE. He's now all grown up, married, and expecting a child of his own.
However, there are many lingering questions to this story... not to mention holes in the story that so far haven't been filled in. His bio father was never in his life. He and the boys mother had severe, but as of yet, unspecified marital problems, and went thru a divorce. Then he just left. The boy had been raised by his paternal grandparents since infancy... and was only abducted after his mother remarried and wanted to raise him. She was in custody proceedings over the boy with his paternal grandparents when they kidnapped him.
So the questions remain... why were his paternal grandparents raising him? Why did his father leave? Why did the grandparents not willingly give him back to his mother when she remarried? And how did they manage to stay hidden all this time? The boy was found by using his social security number... which the police received in September of last year, from the boy's stepfather. Why did it take so long for them to receive it? The investigation also is indicating that the boy, now a grown man, knew he had been living under an alias, and knew that his grandparents had kidnapped him. So why did he not seek his mother out once he became an adult? I imagine in the coming days more questions will come out... and hopefully some answers will also. As a mother, I want to condemn the grandparents...but, I hold back the judgement for now, as I don't think we know the entire story.
More details continue to pour out... and the accusations are beginning to as well. The now grown man has publicly stated that while he is sure that this was "hard and difficult" for his mother, he firmly believes his grandparents were in the right. I can't help but feel he was brainwashed... remember, he was kidnapped when he was 5 yrs old. And up until then was mostly raised by his grandparents while his mother got her life together... which she finally did. So how would he know what her mothering skills were like? He would only know thru what his grandparents told him.
Regardless, I hope he finds a way to deal with all of this.. and that the family can come together as a family and move forward together.