The man accused of abducting two teenage boys in the US is scheduled for to appear in court today for arraignment in one of the cases.

A boy who was kidnapped in the US said it was great to be back with his family, during an interview at his home.

WHILE his alleged kidnapper was away at work, teenager Shawn Hornbeck apparently had access to a computer, and may have put photos of himself online and posted a chilling message on a site created by his own desperate parents: “How long are you planning to look for your son?”

THE uncle of a 13-year-old American boy rescued four days after he was snatched on his way home from school said yesterday that no one is pushing the boy to talk about his ordeal.

For more than four years, Shawn Hornbeck seemed to have had every chance to escape, left alone for hours to ride his bike, play video games and walk past missing-child posters showing his own age-progressed image.

Two boys kidnapped four years apart and found in the same US flat smiled shyly but said nothing to media at two packed news conferences today, a day after they were rescued.