Posted on 09/23/2011 8:44:20 AM PDT by bgill
The complaint, filed in a San Francisco U.S. District Court, has a sturdy claim.
Just three years before Dugard was kidnapped, Garrido was released early from prison after being convicted of kidnapping and forcible rape. Parole officers who should have been monitoring Garrido while he was on parole didn’t report him for testing positive multiple times for drug and alcohol abuse. Federal authorities also ignored repeated reports of sexual misconduct by Garrido, visited his home only a dozen times in a decade, and never found Dugard captive in the backyard.
Now, the California inspector general has also confirmed that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation failed to adequately supervise Garrido.
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Good to see.
Government fails massively, continually, so they keep passing more and more laws that enmesh good citizens and make us more like socialist Europe every day.
What they need to do is properly enforce the laws they have. Monitor true creeps and put them in jail for however long they need to go away.
I’m so tired of hearing stories like, “So and so shot three people...he had escaped with probation after killing his first wife several years ago”. (Just happened here in FL)
Obviously, his Parole Officer should be fired. . .and then put on trial for aiding and abetting.
I sure hope she wins.
It’s worth noting that she won a similar case against the State of California to the tune of $20 million, so there’s definitely some credibility to her case. Unfortunately neither California or the U.S. Government will learn anything from being sued for gross negligence, they’ll just pay the settlements and act like nothing else happened.
Nah. Where would that end? Barney Frank on trial for aiding and abetting the housing crisis? After all we can’t have our politicians afraid to mess up and cost the nation a trillion here and there.
If the government and its enablers want to be in control of everything, then they must also me held accountable for their screw-ups.
However, the real key to is be able to sue individuals several from cloak of government and would not advise holding ones’ breadth.
I think the State of CA settled in a VERY hurried fashion, so it’s technically not right to say she “won” a similar case. I am not so sure she would win or could even achieve standing to sue in Federal court. IANAL.
I’m really unsure if she could even get into court against the Feds. I’m unaware of any particular supervisory role the Feds play/played in this case/these cases. And it’s probably highly immunized against suit. I could be big-time smelly wrong on this, I don’t think there’s any Fed liability here, even in a highly jury-nullified situation.
I am pretty sure there was more than one Parole officer working on this monster in all those years.
No matter what- I hope she wins plenty of money.
She was subjected to a horrendous life for 18 years & EVERY part of the Judicial system failed her & her family.
I doubt she will win, the state grants itself pretty much blanket immunity.
As to her captor.. most of the appropriated punishments tend to end in the letter MM or Cal.
Only if she blames Bush.
Yes the pain should be spread around. Everyone involved should be on the hot seat. I’d be suing everyone in sight. Too bad there won’t be a criminal element involved.
If she wins, the taxpayers will pay, not those who caused the problem.
More rope; less cells. "Early Release" should = "quick walk to the gallows".
As I understand it the first 8 years that she was a captive the scum was being supervised by the feds and not the state. The state to over his parole supervision in 1999.
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