One of the most unthinkable things happened in the news today. A 29 year-old woman was reunited with her mother and stepfather 18 years after the abduction. Jaycee Dugard was abducted in 1991 (the same year Nirvana came out with "Smells Like Teen Spirit") while she was waiting for a bus in South Lake Tahoe, CA. Until today (August 27,2009), she had been living, closed off from the world, in a secret shed in the backyard of her abductors. The most bizarre thing to me, however, is that she isn't the only who has been living in the shed. Who was her roommate for the past decade and a half? If you guessed her abductors you are wrong. She was found to have two children with her male abductor. The two children, both girls, are aged 11 and 15 meaning Jaycee had them when she was 14! Now I know what you are asking, "Who would do such a thing?" Her abductors were Phillip and Nancy Garrido of Antioch, CA. They were caught when Phillip was stopped by campus police at the University of California, Berkeley. He then spilled the beans in a meeting with his parole officer that he had kidnapped Jaycee and that the two children were his.
Phillip was paroled from a Nevada state prison from a 1988 for sexual assault. I think that punishments for these sexual assaults should be much steeper. If this man can hold a girl hostage for 18 years while on parole I think there is something wrong.
Phillip Garrido has been booked on charges of kidnapping, conspiracy, and related offenses. His wife has been charged of kidnapping and conspiracy and they have been held on bail of one million dollars according to cnn.com. Do you think this is enough of a punishment? These people took the childhood away from this girl and stole a family's daughter. Noone can have memories of this girl growing up. Lucky for her, she got out of this ordeal with her life unlike many of the cases similar to this. However, now there are now two young girls that will most likely have many problems in life because they only know the inside of a shed. In the darkness of this situation, maybe it will give one other family with a missing person hope that they will be found.
Phillip was paroled from a Nevada state prison from a 1988 for sexual assault. I think that punishments for these sexual assaults should be much steeper. If this man can hold a girl hostage for 18 years while on parole I think there is something wrong.
Phillip Garrido has been booked on charges of kidnapping, conspiracy, and related offenses. His wife has been charged of kidnapping and conspiracy and they have been held on bail of one million dollars according to cnn.com. Do you think this is enough of a punishment? These people took the childhood away from this girl and stole a family's daughter. Noone can have memories of this girl growing up. Lucky for her, she got out of this ordeal with her life unlike many of the cases similar to this. However, now there are now two young girls that will most likely have many problems in life because they only know the inside of a shed. In the darkness of this situation, maybe it will give one other family with a missing person hope that they will be found.
What do you think of this situation? How do you think these horrible abductors should be punished? What do you think the lives of the two young girls will end up like?
