ravenwitch
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1) Who took the picture of Sharon sitting on Floyd's knee, the youngest picture we have of her?
2) Why is everyone so convinced that Floyd took Sharon around the time of that photo, and didn't have her from a baby?
3) how easy it would be to get a 4/5 year old child to understand that her name has changed and she must now call herself Suzanne?
Another thing I've always wondered, but won't help us find out who Sharon is, is why she had to give up two of her children for adoption but not Michael.
1. It looks like a professional picture, just based on the pose. Many traumatized kids are very quiet, and she may not have said anything. Or, maybe she did and they brushed it off. Steven stayner told several people he didn't belong with his kidnapper and they never let him give details. They just assumed everything was ok.
2. Floyd was in jail until '93. Obviously, since he was in jail for years, he didn't have her before this and didn't father her. In '95, he enrolled her in grade school. She was school aged, since no one questioned that she was way to old or too young for the grade he put her in. I think the time window is pretty certain. He got her after jail but before he put her in school.
3. I think, as a mother myself, it would be pretty simple to change a child's name, especially if he kept her isolated for a while. Jaycee Dugard was taken at 11 and didn't tell police her birth name, which she obviously knew.
If you started as a game, most kids are pretty open to name changes. If you spent a short amount of time using the new one consistently, I think it would take. Even if she slipped up, adults usually ignore much of what other people's kids say, especially if it doesn't fit what they expect to hear.
I also think it is weird that he made her give up other kids but let her keep Michael. Maybe he was truly convinced Michael was his? Maybe Michael reminded him a bit of Suzanne? Maybe she begged to keep him and he gave in?