Thursday, 15 March 2018
947 I Know My First Name Is Steven
First viewed : 24 July 1990
This was a two part US mini series based on the true life case of Steven Stayner who was kidnapped by a paedophile at the age of seven and passed off with scary ease as his son in another town. His ordeal ended when he was fourteen and his abductor Parnell needed a younger boy, five-year old Timothy White and Stayner made a break with White to save him from the same fate. Stayner acted as a consultant to the series and took a cameo role as a policeman.
As usual, I only came in on the second part where Steven had been restored to his parents and struggled to adjust to normal family life . In particular he had problems at school where his class mates assumed the rapes had turned him queer and taunted him accordingly. Corin Nemec played Steven.
The sad postscipt to the story is that both boys died young. Before the series had even been broadcast in the UK, Stayner had been killed in a motorcycle accident aged just 24. White died of a pulmonary embolism in 2010 aged 35.
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