Screening rights were sold to a number of international television companies including the BBC, which screened the miniseries in mid-July of the following year; later still, it was released as a feature-length movie.

[4] Steven Stayner, a seven-year-old boy, is kidnapped by Kenneth Parnell, with the help of his partner in crime, Irving Murphy.

Parnell continues to molest and produce pornographic images of Steven for seven years.

He brings Timmy to the police and confesses that he was the victim of a kidnapping by his "dad", Parnell.

Parnell spends five years of a seven-year sentence in prison for the kidnapping and sexual abuse against Steven, while his accomplice Murphy spends less than two years in prison.