Where is steven stayner now

Stayner and his wife were high school sweethearts, the article said. Steven Stayner was kidnapped when Cary Stayner was 11, Rinek wrote. By that time, Cary Stayner was already having grotesque fantasies, the agent wrote. As the older brother, Stayner felt a natural if undeserved sense of responsibility for not protecting Steven from harm. He also felt more directly responsible. By Alyssa Choiniere. Updated Jul 6, at pm.

Would love your thoughts, please comment. Steven was subsequently called Dennis Gregory Parnell, and Kenneth passed himself off as his father. Together, they lived across California and had no issues getting Steven enrolled in school even though his real middle name and birth date were used.

Steven was usually left alone but made no attempts to run as he was clueless and confused about how to summon help.

From an early age, Kenneth allowed his captive to start drinking and do as he pleased. Steven was an ordinary school kid during the day, but he was a victim of brutal rapes at night. As he hit puberty, though, Kenneth started looking for another child to abduct.

For the next two weeks, Steven saw the toddler experience the same conditioning he did and resolved to take matters into his own hands. While Kenneth was at work, the duo escaped hand-in-hand and hitchhiked to Ukiah. Overnight, Steven Stayner became a national hero, especially as Kenneth Parnell was arrested the very next day — March 2, He was charged and convicted for kidnapping and false imprisonment, sentenced to seven years in prison.

Telling Stayner his parents had abandoned him and ordering the boy to call him Dad, Parnell for the next seven years secreted Stayner in a series of remote California cabins and trailers and abused him psychologically and sexually. Finally, in , when Parnell forcibly brought home another victim, 5-year-old Timmy White, Stayner, then 14, grabbed the boy and escaped, hitching 40 miles to the nearest police station.

Last week, back in Merced, year-old Stayner was again heading home when a man in a car loomed in front of him. This time he was riding his motorcycle back from his job as a pizza deliveryman, returning to his wife, Jody, and their children, Ashley, 3, and Steven Jr. Suddenly, just ahead of him, a car pulled out of the driveway of a migrant-labor camp along the highway. He died less than an hour later at Merced Community Medical Center. According to police, witnesses identified the driver, who fled the scene, as Antonio Loera, 28, a worker at a local tomato-packing plant.