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klimbim78
They don't get more keystone than these buffoon cops...hope they get fired for being utterly useless at their jobs.
WhiteHawk
I think questions should arise as to why Garrido only served 11 years for a 50-year sentence. Dugard's kidnapping could have been prevented entirely.
adaydream
I agree with you on this one WhiteHawk. How do they release these guys out early and sometimes ever?
I couldn't believe that he was on probatin and no probation officer ever checked out his property.
This is one tragic crime. < :-)
lostrune2
Guess I wasn't too far off about maybe a Stockholm lolicon syndrome....
Helter_Skelter
So how exactly does a woman decide that a guy serving time for rape is Mr. Right?
lostrune2
Helter, Some women are just attracted to bad boys and write love letters to prisoners. Seems she loves that (rape) about him.
Betzee
Details are trickling out. Apparently the Garrido "family" ran a printing business in which Jaycee was introduced by patriarch Phil as "my daughter." It's her artwork which adorned much of their business so she has some skills. Moreover, she has memories of a normal childhood to draw on as well as a loving family to assist her in what will be a difficult transition given so few people can identify with it.
For her two daughters, the future is much more problematic. They have no knowledge of any other type of life. They've never been to school. And they are going to be thrust into a world in which their mother, and it's not clear they know Jaycee is their mother rather than their sister, is going to be embraced by people who will inadvertently invalidate their existence by pointing out, "He should never have been released, this all could have been avoided."
"He" of course is their father and they may have warm feelings toward someone who is viewed as a monster by everyone else. As unpleasant as it is to contemplate, he may have had sex with them. Apparently he gave up the printing business to preach, trying to create flock out of transients and homeless people living in Berkeley. The girls were often with him according to those who've been interviewed.
WhiteHawk
I hope you didn't take my comments in that way. Their existence cannot be invalidated, and they have little choice but to live their lives and grow as best they can. How they came into this world is tragic, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't as much opportunity as anyone else to make the best of life.
lostrune2
Garrido said he never touched his daughters but rather credited them for turning his life around (to a religious nut at least).
Jaycee/Alissa knows computers, had access to the internet, emailing clients. Yet she did not alert anyone. The Stockholm lolicon syndrome must be strong.