Jaycee Dugard: A very disturbing story

This young lady, Jaycee Dugard, was abducted in broad daylight when she was only 11 years old. She was kept in captivity for 18 years in the backyard of Phillip Garrido and he had two children with her, two girls aged 11 and 15 now. Questions are being raised as to why she didn't try to escape when she had so many opportunities. In her case, I have some understanding as she was only 11 years old at the time of abduction and then she was indoctrinated at that tender age like fanatics indoctrinate young people into a religion or a cult. Then of course she had children, and which mother does not get attached to her children and to certain extent to the father of the children, especially when father controlled every aspect of her life.

What I do not understand is why Nancy Garrido, Phillip Garrido's wife, co-operated with this man in the abduction and then in confining her and letting him have children with her. She was a grown up woman at the time of the abduction. Did she not feel jealousy that another much younger woman was coming in her husband's life? Why did she not object and expose the man.

There are other similar cases where wives are involved in abductions, witness sexual abuse of the abducted and just do nothing. That part is hard to understand. Psychologists have analysed the man and victim but said very little about the wife. Another heartbreaking part is what will happen to the little girls born to Jaycee Dugard when they learn the full story of their mother and father. What kind of pain will it cause and how will it affect their adult life? All these are very troubling questions.

Nonetheless both Phillip Garrido and Nancy Garrido are hideous criminals and it is hoped that they get proper punishment and never see the light of the day again. They truly belong in the slammer. Phillip Garrido must have never been let go after his first rape case in 1990s. It was a grievous blunder.

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