Posted on 08/27/2009 9:35:28 AM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Thanks for the ping. Sad but good news indeed!!
I never even entertained that thought but you're right. It could be a hoax. As I posted earlier, these endings are very rare, almost unheard of after so much time.
Hopefully she's the real deal. And if she is, she sure must have a story to tell.
The article has now deleted that part.
I wonder how she never had an opportunity to go to the police in all those 18 years. Did she not go to school and be able to tell a teacher? Was she prevented from ever doing anything alone?
Actually, it sounds like the plea of a woman who is desperately hoping her daughter was taken by someone who just wants a child to raise, rather than someone who will rape and kill her.
That's just my opinion — any posting police care to weigh in?
For clarity, I should have added that I was speaking generally — this post was an excerpt, so the original wording did have to be altered.
Maybe not. I believe that it's considered very valuable to "humanize" the victim in cases like this. The parents should use the child's name often and show pictures of the victim, including pictures with the family.
The object is evidently to create in the perpetrators mind an empathy for the victim in the hopes of keeping the victim safer.
The situation that would be "safest" for the victim would be if the perpetrators were "child-stealers" and not a serial-killing rapist. There have been many cases of child-stealing by woman or couples who can't have or don't have children of their own. Even new-borns have been stolen by such persons.
By treating the circumstances as if the case was one of such child-stealing, the parents may have hoped that whoever took the child would modify their behavior to be more consistent with this less lethal type of crime.
Unfortunately, some kidnappers are not motivated by a dysfunctional idea of building a "happy family".
That psychological insight totally eluded me. I get it now.
As Winston Churchill said, “Never, ever, ever give up.”
These parents are extremely lucky. This type of situation almost never turns out well. That’s why I wanted to post it. A happy ending, for a change.
they updated the article again . I read other articles that they are sure it is the girl .
Nancy Grace is covering the case today according to her website on Cnn .
This article claims she was kept in a shed as a sex slave and bore children with the molester. OMG.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ktxl-news-coldcase-sexslave0827,0,6297613.story
Authorities tell FOX40 News that Dugard bore several children for sex offender Phillip Garrido, who kept her in a backyard device — possibly a shed — as a sex slave for both Garrido and his wife, Nancy Garrido
In 1 hour.
I wonder how many people suspected the stepfather? I mena, he was the witness to the kidnapping, and a lot of times it is a boyfriend of a woman or step father of a woman whom the child is hurt more often from.
I’ll bet this guy is relieved. He said his wife left him because of this kidnapping—not that she blamed him, but because it had so ruined her life.
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