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(More customer reviews)I saw this movie as a teenager and it haunts me to this day. Steven's pain, suffering and 7 yr ordeal is never far from my thoughts when the mention of a child molestation or child abduction is on the news. To live through this must have taken more than just self preservation techniques, but then we are all stronger than we think when we live through something horrible.
I bought this book because I had seen the movie and wanted to get a better idea of what Steven had to endure at the hands of a complete waste of space - Kenneth Parnell. Well I got a good idea just 2 chapters into this book. It certainly gives us readers a view of life from Steven's point of view, which is good because most books dont give the victims point of view, espiecally a child's.
However, Im at the end of the book and the writer sees fit to put the section on Cary Stayner being the yosemite killer, but didnt see fit to put how Mr Parnell has recently been in the news for trying to buy a little boy in Berkley Ca as late as 2003, but was referred to as "harmless" because he was in a wheel chair! Mr Parnell had previous convictions of child rape and kidnapping. To this day he is a free man, whether in a wheel chair or not he and others like him are a threat to society.
Child Predators are a threat to all of our children because people are too worried about being Politically Correct, instead of doing what is right; ie., voting, questioning people who are around children, confronting someone when we are suspicious of their actions, making sure our children are in a safe environment with safe adults, etc.
This book may not have been done properly and maybe the writer didnt do it perfectly, but at least he was and is an advocate for children and at least he was willing to put his name on something and put it out there for people to read. Which is more than I can say for alot of people, they lack backbone when it comes to doing what is right.
So read the book if you want to get a more defined idea about what Steven Stayner had to live through, as well as his family, etc. It's like the movie, but more defined and detailed
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I Know My First Name Is StevenThe basis for a blockbuster TV movie, here is the compelling true account of Steven Stayner's horrifying abduction, as well as the updated story of how Steven's brother, Cary Stayner, made headlines of his own - as the cold-blooded killer who terrorised Yosemite.
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