Girls Find Out Jaycee Dugard Is Really Their Mom

People Magazine ^ | 9-1-09 | Howard Breuer

[Justaham]

It would seem like more than two girls could bear: The man they called "daddy" turns out to be a registered sex offender thrown in jail, and now they've been told the woman they thought was their big sister is really their mother.

This is what Angel, 11, and Starlit, 15, have faced since the arrest last week of Phillip Garrido, charged with the 1991 abduction of Jaycee Dugard, now 29.

"They thought Jaycee was their sister," Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, tells PEOPLE. "People have to realize this will take years of therapy."

Still, there have been encouraging signs the healing has begun. Dugard's reunion with her mother, Terry Probyn, has been "the happiest time of her life, and they are bonding," says Carl, who split with his wife amid the stress of his stepdaughter's kidnapping (Carl was briefly treated as a suspect, then cleared).

[tanknetter]

Buried up to their necks near fire ant beds is more what I had in mind

Actually, I'm thinking that in this case there are a number of, er, "creative" uses for a Navy decompression chamber that could be employed to good effect. Ala "Without Remorse".

[Mojave]

Because libertarians are such outspoken proponents of kidnapping and rape...

They have historically promoted the "right" to have sex with the under-aged once the children give their consent.

[Kimmers]

I am so glad they have been able to protect the privacy of these girls......I hope the media will honor their privacy...but it is a matter time for the media vultures come in for the kill....

prayers for healing for the innocent victims and family

[Conspiracy Guy]

I like the possibilities

[GoreNoMore]

Society has tolerated way to much ugliness and it will continue until that day people demand justice. I would not want to kill them or anyone, I just think a hole dug 30 feet down, 10 X 10 in isolation for the rest of their days without any form of entertainment, only a book of the injustices they have done to others.

[Battle Axe]

I know some curious ant hills that would make this a slower process.

The Freeper Entomologist

BA

[freedumb2003]

That's right. Because libertarians are such outspoken proponents of kidnapping and rape...

Just free sex for all and damn the consequences.

[elizabethgrace]

We can hope they’re given their rightful privacy.

[elizabethgrace]

The strapped state of CA should pay for every bit of this therapy. It was due to the incompetence of their law enforcement and parole officers that this tragedy went on for as long as it did. Apparently, people were tipping the police for years that there were children on this sex offenders property. Yet no thorough search was done. Disgraceful!

I'll tell you what. I'd rather my share of CA tax go for the treatment of this tortured family. You're right on!

[Ted Grant]

Bobby Darin grew up thinking the woman who was in fact his mother was his sister.

[NonZeroSum]

Just free sex for all and damn the consequences.

Not with kids.

[freedumb2003]

Justreread — d@mn spell checker took my misspelling of liberal and turned it into “libertarian.”

*DOH*

Does my statement make more sense now?

[ktscarlett66]

People did call in but you know what? His original arrest wasn’t for a sex offense against a minor, so there was nothing in his parole or anything that prevented him from being around kids. His first victim was 25 at the time of the attack. So he could have had kids, hosted b’day parties, whatever.

[NonZeroSum]

Does my statement make more sense now?

Well, yes, somewhat. But I doubt that there are many self-described liberals who would say they favor this, either.

[ArrogantBustard]

"Without Remorse".

Tom Clancy's greatest work.

Decompress them ... then feed them to the crabs.

[Bob]

That’s right. And the creep that did this say’s, it is a heart warming story

I think that you may be misreading the comments of Carl, the girl's father, as having been made by the perpetrator.

[tanknetter]

Decompress them ... then feed them to the crabs.

But that's not what Clark did to the drug dealer in the book. Clark repeated "bounced" the guy using the decompression chamber. Ramp up the pressure, then drop it as fast as possible. Repeat multiple times, initiating a case of the bends that, while not fatal, IS permanently debilitating. Then leave what's left of the guy to live out his remaining years in abject agony.

[ArrogantBustard]

Forgot about that guy ... totally wrecked him, then dropped him off at the looney bin?