Posted on 09/03/2009 10:37:23 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Phillip Garrido, accused of kidnapping an 11-year-old girl in 1991 and imprisoning her in a shed for nearly two years, may have started his spree of sexual crimes as far back as 1972, police said.
Garrido, then 21, gave a 14-year-old girl drugs and then sexually assaulted her multiple times, Antioch Police Lt. Leonard Orman told NBC's The Today Show on Thursday. The victim refused to testify about the incident, and the charges against Garrido were dropped, Orman said.
Officials believe this is the third victim that Garrido has raped in the last 37 years -- and they're looking for more. Garrido and his wife, Nancy, are accused of kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard in 1991 and using her as a sex slave her for 18 years. Garrido fathered two of Dugard's children. Dugard and her children were reunited with her family last week.
In 1976, Garrido was convicted of kidnapping and raping Katherine Hall, who says Garrido handcuffed her and imprisoned her in a storage unit for eight hours.
His ex-wife described him as "a monster," a sex addict who once tried to gouge her eyes out with a safety pin.
"It would not surprise me at all if more victims are located," Orman told NBC's "Today" show. All agencies in the county I'm in, Contra Costa, we are all looking at cold cases that we have that this person may be responsible for. We have a long way to go."
In April 1972, Garrido met two teenage girls at the public library in Antioch, Calif., Orman said. He took the two girls on a joy ride around Antioch, then brought him to his house, where they partied in a shed in the backyard and he gave them drugs. Then he took one of them to a nearby motel, where she says he sexually assaulted her multiple times, Orman said.
"It's certainly an indication that this all started early in his life," Orman said.
Garrido, a registered sex offender, held Dugard captive for nearly two decades despite regular visits from parole officers and police.
"We try and identify those (sex offenders) that we think are going to reoffend and pay a lot of attention to those folks," Orman said. "But obviously, the numbers are overwhelming."
These cretins really need to be exterminated.
I hope the girl who “refused to testify” is proud of herself. She enabled this pervert.
Each revelation is shocking as to how inept the justice system is.
The Jaycee Dugard story needs to lead to sentencing reform! Pedophiles have 4 times the rate of recidivism. They need to be jailed for LIFE after one offense.
I’d imagine you’re familiar with the emotions (rage, shame, guilt, et al) of a 14 year-old girl who’s just been raped?
No?
I thought so.
Good job.
Remember what happened to women/girls who cried rape and testified at trial in 1972? Too young to remember or not born yet?
Here's what would happen. The victim would be labeled a whore and any deviation from total sainthood would be blown out of proportion by the defending attorney as 'she asked for it' testimony.
I completely agree. Why do I have to pay to keep these hideous creeps alive? Why should good people have to live in fear of them?
The judge who let him out after the Reno rape is the one who needs to be held responsible.
Third victim? Chances are there are dozens, if not hundreds.
I’m not excusing her, but I do hope you understand that victims of rape are ashamed.
Many men are raped ... and do not come forward for the same reason.
Don’t blame the victim.
His wife was a co-conspirator and even kept the girls imprisoned while her husband was in prison.
The officers who were supposed to check in on him didn’t not notice he was violating parole.
The officers who responded to calls about the way the girls were being treated didn’t talk to the girls.
A lot of people enabled this man. Past victims who were minors would be hard to blame for letting him go.
How about the legal system that put him back out on the street several times?
Sorry, she was 14, terrified and traumatized. And it was in a different time and place. She did what she had to do to survive. You cannot place the burden of that sick b@$tard on a child.
That would make me very happy.
That’s a bit harsh. No telling what “justice” would have been done, and that little one suffered too.
I fault the parole officers; each and every one of them that visited and failed to find her, or reported that they visited but actually spent the afternoon at the local strip-club.
I wonder what it will cost taxpayers to feed, house, guard, treat, etc. this monster until he dies in prison.
people will rail against the death penalty, but in it really is the only safe way to put away monsters for good.....
perhaps daddy or big brother should have taken care of it....that used to be the old way...instead of multiple layers of humiliation for the young girl, Garrido might have been stopped back then or at least impaired....
No, she did not. The prosecution could have worked to develop a better case than solely relying on witness testimony.
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