While reading about the kidnapping of the Missouri boys, I couldn't help but remember the Merced boy, Steven Stayner, who suffered a similar fate many years ago. I hope that officials and family members will learn from Steven's experience and get these children and their families the psychiatric help they are most certainly going to need. Unfortunately, young Steven and his family didn't get the mental health treatment and they all had a difficult time. Here's a link that ties things together.

You'll remember that this family was again devastated when another son, Cary Stayner, was sentenced to death after being convicted of killing four women in Yosemite National Park.