The way back to a normal life for kidnap victim, Jaycee Lee Dugard, is going to be a long one, but it is a road she and her children can successfully travel.
Philip and Nancy Garrido
If people rally around them and support the family, they can make a full recovery, after the horror that was Philip and Nancy Garrido.
When kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard’s story hit the press last month, it shone a light on child abductions and the terrible ordeal innocent victims of crime go through at the hands of their captors.
Another case that was quite sad is the story of 21-year-old Austrian, Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted as a young girl by a sadistic, cruel man.
Her abductor, Wolfgang Priklopil, nabbed her off the streets of Austria when she was 10-years-old and forced her to live in a tiny, soundproofed cellar under his garage that could barely hold a bed. He viciously beat her on a regular basis, until she was black and blue and by all accounts, sexually assaulted her as well.
At age 18, while cleaning his BMW in the driveway, she made a run for it and escaped, when Priklopil was distracted by a cell phone call. She ran into a house on a neighboring street, where she found an elderly man, who called the police. Fearing arrest for kidnapping Natascha 8-years prior, Priklopil killed himself by standing in the path of a train.
Natascha Kampusch
When she learned of his death, Natascha cried out of pity for him, exhibiting clear signs of Stockholm Syndrome, much like Jaycee Lee Dugard, who felt sorry for her kidnapper when he was apprehended.
After years of mind control and mental abuse, with the intent to make victims malleable, people who have been kidnapped, often struggle with conflicting feelings.
After she was returned to her family, the network Puls 4 in Austria gave her a talk show titled “Natascha Kampusch Trifft.” It was good of them to give her such a great job, welcoming her back to living out in the open. She is a brave woman to embrace public life again and I salute her courage.
Hopefully in time, Jaycee Lee Dugard and her children will acclimate to public life as well and enjoy all the great things in life they have been missing, due to the unconscionable crimes that were committed against them. God bless them all. Their stories are testament that recovery is possible.
It has been revealed, pedophile and kidnapper, Philip Garrido, who abducted and impregnated 11-year-old, Jaycee Lee Dugard, wrote love songs about her that contained very sick lyrics.
Garrido and his wife, Nancy, who has also been remanded into custody, kidnapped Jaycee at a bus stop and sped away with her.
His lyrics contain items about taking his blue eyed baby for a ride in his car and to get her a candy bar. He also sings about a "little child" being "sexy." In retrospect, people believe his lyrics are autobiographical, not to mention, loathsome.
Garrido was also vocally imitating Elvis on his recordings and very poorly, might I add, retelling his pedophilic crimes on record.
What is it with pedophiles and this need to chronicle their depraved conduct into some form of entertainment medium. It is quite sick.
Jaycee Dugard's Alleged Kidnapper Recorded Love Songs to Little Girls
September 8, 2009 11:20 AM - ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) Kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido recorded love songs years ago that suggested he was fond of young girls, a former customer of Garrido's home-based printing business said.
...In one song, Garrido sings, "The way she walks, yeah, subtle, sexy. What can I do? I fall victim too. A little child, yeah, look what you do."
In another, he sings, "I will tell you about the only one. She's a dream, dream come true. With a note saying you're my baby blue."...
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Nancy Garrido, 54 and her husband, Phillip Garrdio, 58, a man previously convicted of kidnapping and sexual assault, clearly was not a changed man, after being incarcerated and released on probation, serving a paltry sentence. He went right back to his old, devious ways.
Garrido, with the help of his wife, kidnapped 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991. This week, while on probation, his sick misconduct was uncovered.
Not only had Garrido held the young girl captive in his backyard shed for years, he sexually assaulted her, fathering two children with her. That poor girl. The psychological horror she must have endured. Some people can be so evil.
Garrdio and his wife have now been indicted on 29 counts in relation to this heinous series of crimes against Dugard, who is now 29-years-old. They deserve life in prison without the possibility of parole.