It's always a possibility in this day and age.

Sometimes I am so upset to be a member of the human race.

Almost two weeks ago 13 year old Ben Ownby went missing less than five hundred feet from his home after getting off his school bus.

A tip from one of Ben's bus friends (who saw a white truck) led them to the home of Michael Devlin, a manager of a pizza place and part-time funeral home worker. Thankfully, amazingly Ben Ownby was there and he was alive.

That is not it.

They also found another boy. Shawn Hornbeck. He went missing four years ago while he was riding his bike. He's now fifteen. The police had absolutely no idea he was there.

I'm floored when I see something like this. That guy missed out on over four whole years of his life, over 1460 days, over 35000 hours.

I became aware of this story when Oprah had Shawn, his family and Ben Ownby's parents on her show.

As I watched this awkward 15 year old struggle with talking in correct grammatical sentences (he did not attend school at any point during his kidnapping), his head bowed in a combination of embarrassment and shyness saying to Oprah "I don't want to answer that" I felt a flood of absolute pity and disgust at this society we've created.

A lot of people want to know "Why?" Why didn't Shawn pick-up the phone and call his parents or 911? Why didn't he tell his neighbours who we was, or even a friend he had made while kidnapped who asked directly if he was indeed Shawn Hornbeck?

These aren't the whys we should be asking. We should be asking why can't a kid walk from his school bus to his home without worrying about getting abducted? Why does a child have absolutely no help for almost a half a decade, and when he does receive it, it's by accident?

Why are there men like Michael Devlin out there?

Read what the BBC has to say here.