In an interview aired on CBS the year after Hornbeck was freed, the reporter noted that the boy's parents had requested that Shawn not be asked why he never spoke up.

在他获救之后参加的CBS广播的一次采访中，该报道称霍恩贝克的父母已经事先声明过，电台所提的问题不能涉及任何关于当年自己为何不主动求援的成分。

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Along with the families, we were buoyed -- elated, overjoyed -- by cases like Shawn Hornbeck, an 11-year-old who disappeared from a country road near his parents' home in Missouri in October 2002 and was found alive four years later.

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