Thursday, September 3, 2009

Jaycee Dugard and her Kidnapper/Rapist

The sad case of Jaycee Dugard and her captors raises several imperative questions. As the story goes, Jaycee was kidnapped right in front of her stepfather from outside their home in 1991. Eighteen years later, she is freed from her captor, Philip Garigo, who also by now happens to be the father of Jaycee’s two children, 15 and 11 years of ages.

Jaycee was 11 when she was kidnapped. If her two daughters are 15 and 11, that indicates her kidnapped raped her since she was 14.Plausibly, since the day he kidnapped her. So Jaycee at the age of 14 had given birth to her first daughter already.

At the time of arrest, Jaycee and her daughters were found to be living in a sound proof shed veiled by a false wall within a larger compound. Ironically, the local police failed on locate the false wall on a random property search a few years earlier. So, Jaycee and her daughters were living with their kidnapper and rapist for period of eighteen years without their neighbors knowing their actual relationships.

In addition, and this has to be one of the most frightening aspect of the whole story, the townsfolk, apart from a few suspicious ones, did not wonder of the nature of the relationship between Philip Garigo, another women who was booked as his wife, Jaycee Dugard and her two daughters.

The whole case reeks of a matter that dropped out of the public’s radar, perhaps to the detrimental effect on Jaycee and her two daughters.

Now that Jaycee and her daughters are finally emancipated, there are still looming issues for them to encounter. Least of all accepting and moving past the fact that they had bonded with a husband and father who raped Jaycee from childhood.

As this gruesome tale unfold, more unfortunate details will emerge of Jaycee’s life with Philip Garigo.

To make matters far worse, Philip Garigo is being investigated with past murders of prostitutes that happened in the same locales that he inhabited.

It must be deeply traumatic for Jaycee and her children to understand and accept their shared past,

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