Post by Sapphire on Aug 28, 2009 0:02:08 GMT -5
This makes my heart so sad. So many things are disturbing... as if this guy kidnapping young girls and raping them wasn't bad enough, we've got a wife who stood by and helped, a parole officer who never noticed that anything was wrong, and a victim giving birth to two children with her abducter. It's amazing how people go so long and no one ever notices... just like that women from last year that was kept in the dungeon by her dad. How can we be so unobservant? She was with him longer than her own family. I can't imagine the damage that's been done and wonder if she can ever live a "normal" life. This is terribly disgusting and heartbreaking.
Police: Victim was kept as sex slave, had 2 children by her abductor
PLACERVILLE, Calif. - Joyous, miraculous news that a little girl kidnapped nearly two decades ago was found alive gave way Thursday to the horrifying details of how police say she has lived all those years: kept by a convicted rapist in his backyard as a sex slave and forced to bear two of his children.
Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11 in 1991 when she was snatched from her school bus stop, was locked away from the outside world behind a series of fences, sheds and tents in the back of a suburban home, police said.
Her abductor, investigators said, raped her for years and fathered two children with her, the first when Jaycee was about 14. Those children, both girls now 11 and 15, also were kept hidden away in the backyard compound.
"None of the children have ever been to school, they've never been to a doctor," El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said. "They were kept in complete isolation in this compound."
Dugard, now 29, was reunited Thursday with her mother, but the meeting was tempered with sadness as the family learned their smiling, blue-eyed, blonde ponytailed little girl had spent most of her life as a virtual slave.
"She was in good health, but living in a backyard for the past 18 years does take its toll," Kollar said.
The backyard compound had electricity from extension cords and a rudimentary outhouse and shower, "as if you were camping," Kollar said.
Suspect: I've turned my life around
Convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido, 58, was charged with various kidnapping and sex charges. His wife was also arrested, and authorities said she was with Garrido during the kidnapping in South Lake Tahoe.
Garrido told NBC station KCRA of Sacramento in a telephone interview Thursday from jail that he has turned his life around.
"Wait until you hear the story of what took place at this house," he said. "You are going to be completely impressed. It's a disgusting thing that took place with me at the beginning. But I turned my life completely around and to be able to understand that, you have to start there."
He added: If you take this a step at a time you're going to fall over backwards and in the end, you're going to find the most powerful heart-warming story."
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And after that crazy ass quote (I'm sorry did he say "impressed?"), here's the link to the full story.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32583149/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
Police: Victim was kept as sex slave, had 2 children by her abductor
PLACERVILLE, Calif. - Joyous, miraculous news that a little girl kidnapped nearly two decades ago was found alive gave way Thursday to the horrifying details of how police say she has lived all those years: kept by a convicted rapist in his backyard as a sex slave and forced to bear two of his children.
Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11 in 1991 when she was snatched from her school bus stop, was locked away from the outside world behind a series of fences, sheds and tents in the back of a suburban home, police said.
Her abductor, investigators said, raped her for years and fathered two children with her, the first when Jaycee was about 14. Those children, both girls now 11 and 15, also were kept hidden away in the backyard compound.
"None of the children have ever been to school, they've never been to a doctor," El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said. "They were kept in complete isolation in this compound."
Dugard, now 29, was reunited Thursday with her mother, but the meeting was tempered with sadness as the family learned their smiling, blue-eyed, blonde ponytailed little girl had spent most of her life as a virtual slave.
"She was in good health, but living in a backyard for the past 18 years does take its toll," Kollar said.
The backyard compound had electricity from extension cords and a rudimentary outhouse and shower, "as if you were camping," Kollar said.
Suspect: I've turned my life around
Convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido, 58, was charged with various kidnapping and sex charges. His wife was also arrested, and authorities said she was with Garrido during the kidnapping in South Lake Tahoe.
Garrido told NBC station KCRA of Sacramento in a telephone interview Thursday from jail that he has turned his life around.
"Wait until you hear the story of what took place at this house," he said. "You are going to be completely impressed. It's a disgusting thing that took place with me at the beginning. But I turned my life completely around and to be able to understand that, you have to start there."
He added: If you take this a step at a time you're going to fall over backwards and in the end, you're going to find the most powerful heart-warming story."
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And after that crazy ass quote (I'm sorry did he say "impressed?"), here's the link to the full story.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32583149/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
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