Poor Kyron...what that poor kid must have gone through living with this (unusual person). It's no wonder he was so timid, and didn't get out of bed until someone went and got him. It's so terribly sad.
IMO, it is easy to control a child through fear, and easy to hide it from others, too, since physical force is not necessary. I have personal childhood experience with that. I remember being 8 years old and wishing I could call the police about my mother, and realizing that would make it worse for me because no one would ever have believed me. My father didn't even know about this at the time. I was a naturally compliant child and fear and intimidation were never necessary to control me.
Even as an adult, I have recounted some of the things my mother has said to me to a friend of both my mother and me, and our friend could not believe it. This, even though I think I should have been given the benefit of the doubt since I suddenly refused to allow my mother any access to me or to my family and I am a decent person. The people who have seen my mother at her worst are my siblings, my husband, my children, and my former husband and his children. The large majority of people who know my mother think she is wonderful.
To put it plainly, my mother is a bully. She would never carry out her threats. I was
40 years old before I realized that, and I base that on the fact that she never has.
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OTOH, perhaps being timid was a characteristic of Kyron's. Perhaps he was a happy child, and this event occurred as a complete surprise to him, too. This is what I think is most likely. DY, TY, and KH do not give me the impression that they had any indication that Kyron was being abused by TH prior to his disappearance.
(Also, I have one compliant child who has
never questioned his parents' authority. None of my other children have ever been like that. All of my children have been raised to speak their minds and none of them are the least bit
afraid of me. So it doesn't bother me that Kyron stayed in bed until he was told to get up, even if it wasn't a safety rule by the time he was 7 years old. My 16 year old compliant child still asks me if it is okay to eat something between meals, despite my having told him for years that he doesn't have to do that and despite the fact that I always say it is fine with me.)
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Perhaps Kyron was
not surprised because he was given drugs and did not know what was happening or was going to happen to him on June 4. IMO, that is a neat, clean, and easy way for TH to have taken care of "the problem".
In fact, I will go out on a limb and say that, unless TH has stashed Kyron somewhere, this is what happened IMO.
