Is there a way to install a GPS on our girls? Usually I think this is a good idea when I consider the trouble our girls might be getting into on their own but these sorts of stories creep me out. Stay away from my daughters!
Yeah, you and me both... It's scary to think that this is not the last time this will happen to someone. It's probably going on right now with some other girl who was abducted 1, 5, 10 years ago.
Well, I'm assuming that Jaycee is going to have a hard enough time trying to reintegrate herself into society as it is. The burden and responsibility of raising children on your own is hard enough WITHOUT all those outside circumstances....I'm thinking it would be even harder in this case. I just feel like Jaycee wouldn't be fit to provide a good home for the children. I'm not saying that she shouldn't be allowed to have visitation, or even partial custody....I just think the MAIN responsibility of raising them should fall on someone who is more fit to handle it right now. Just my opinion, anyways.
Being held in one geographical location by one person (or two) is the more unusual part but an awful lot of very young girls are caught up in the sex industry and are trapped. I know abroad their papers are taken away but even in the states one of the tactics is to move the girl away from her home so she doesn't even know where she is and to convince her that if she goes to the police she is the one who will be arrested for prostitution.
Is there some great foster family that already has experience raising children who have been brought up on some secret compound? Possibly. But I think that at least the kids wouldn't feel like freaks in their own home if they are with their mother who knows what they've been through. The case in Austria was fairly similar and the interviews afterwards suggested that the kids prefered to stay with their own mother. Yes, she has a lot to adjust to herself but I think you are underestimating how heart breaking it is for a mother to have her children taken from her. I certainly don't think it would help her adjust when the two people she could unconditionally love for the last 15 years are stripped away.
I'll take this moment to remind you there are thousands of young women in this country who have been kidnapped domestically and abroad, not to be a second wife to some nut, but to be forced into prostitution. I'm sure they'll work it all out. It seems to me the obvious solution would be for Jaycee and her children to live with her mother. Jaycee is 29, but hasn't been to school since the 6th grade. It's not like she's going to have many marketable skills to earn money on her own.
I heard on the T.V that they are planning to input microchips in babies so that when lost you can find them on the computer.. Same way for your dog or cat...
I can't imagine we'll really do that. As much as I would like to be able to quickly find my kiddos, there is certainly a creepy "big brother" element to it as well.
I'm fairly certain it is already possible to have some feature on your child's cell phone that allows you to track their location. One might think that would be useless for a girl as young as 11, and it might, but kids are carrying cell phones at younger and younger ages these days. Of course, one would imagine that one of the first things the kidnapper would do is toss the phone, but maybe not always.
pretty sad state of affairs when a sex offender child molesting kidnapper tells an investigating detective "everything's fine here, Officer!" and the police leave the scene after no further questioning http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/28/california.missing.girl/index.html
That sucks. I'm not comfortable about the "animals" characterization, but the guy is right -- they should have been a lot more inquisitive. I would have thought if they were called out to investigate the house, they'd have run the guy's name through a database to see if he had a rap sheet, at least.
I thought the place would be a bit more rural -- acre lots or something. Neighbors probably should have been a bit more nosy.
There's not a prison on earth that could adequately give this scumbag the punishment he deserves. Even the death penalty would be too soft.
More disquieting details: http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090827/US.Kidnapped.Girl.Found/ [rquoter]Kidnap suspect's home searched for murder evidence ANTIOCH, Calif. — The twisted kidnapping case of a woman held captive for 18 years in a secluded backyard compound took another disturbing turn Friday as authorities searched the home of her alleged captor for evidence in the murders of several prostitutes and new evidence surfaced of missed opportunities to arrest him years ago. Officers executed a search warrant at Phillip Garrido's Antioch home for clues in the unsolved slayings, Contra Costa sheriff's Capt. Daniel Terry said. Several of the murdered women's bodies were dumped near an industrial park where Garrido, a sex offender, worked during the 1990s. Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were charged Friday with kidnapping 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991. Authorities said they held her and two children she had with Garrido as prisoners in a backyard encampment. Contra Costa County Sheriff Warren E. Rupf said a neighbor reported three years ago there were people living in tents in a backyard encampment at the home of Garrido. The deputy who interviewed Garrido in November 2006 gave him a warning that people living outdoors was a code violation. The deputy did not go into the backyard of the house located in an unincorporated area of Antioch, about 45 miles northeast of San Francisco, Rupf said. More suspicion and curiosity on the deputy's part could have uncovered the secret encampment where Dugard allegedly was held, he said. They "missed an opportunity" and there are "absolutely no excuses," Rupf said, apologizing to the Dugard family. Phillip Garrido, 58, was arrested Wednesday and is also facing sexual assault charges, Authorities said his 54-year-old wife, Nancy Garrido, was with him during the kidnapping in South Lake Tahoe. Dugard reunited with her mother, sister and another relative Thursday. They are at an undisclosed San Francisco Bay area hotel, and Dugard's stepfather Carl Probyn said Dugard is doing well under the circumstances. "She looks very young, she looks very healthy," Probyn said on "The Early Show" on CBS. The neighbor who called authorities three years ago also told them Garrido was psychotic and had a sexual addiction. Rupf said the deputy who visited the home did not know Garrido was a registered sex offender, even though the Sheriff's Department had the information. Garrido's father, Manuel Garrido, also told The Associated Press Friday that his son is "absolutely out of his mind." He said Garrido fell into a bad crowd when he was younger and started taking LSD. The elder Garrido said the drugs changed him from a good boy, whom everybody loved, to a crazy person. Speaking by phone from his house in Brentwood, Manuel Garrido said he hasn't seen his son in years and has never been to the house where the encampment allegedly was set up. He said his ex-wife, Phillip Garrido's mother, has dementia and is not well. She also lived in the Antioch house.[/rquoter]
