Philip Garrido has rights under the law. Apparently more than his victim, Jaycee Lee Dugard.
It is something out of a horror novel; a San Francisco suburb where police seldom drive by, housing is cheap, and no one really cares about what is going on, more than 100 registered sex offenders have found a safe haven. It is the place, a suburb of the city of Antioch, where the despicable Philip Garrido took a terrified 11 year-old girl whom he repeatedly raped, imprisoning her physically and then mentally for 18 years. That girl is a Jaycee Lee Dugard, a woman who calls herself Allisa, a woman who is the mother to two little girls conceived from rapes.
The fact that she was taken and the trauma she has sustained is horrible enough, but there is one issue that is more horrifying; the kidnapping, sexual abuse, and imprisonment could have been avoided. The monster who took her was a registered sex offender who had been convicted of rape and kidnapping more than 30 years ago.
A 25 year-old Garrido was convicted of a Federal kidnapping charge and a Nevada state forcible rape charge. He had grabbed a young woman from a South Lake Tahoe, California, parking lot, handcuffed her, tied her down and held her in a storage unit in Reno in November 1976. Garrido later told a Reno detective that he liked to "force a woman." The now retired detective, Dan DeMaranville, described the storage unit where the rape occurred as a sort of sex palace. It contained a bed, various sex aids and videos, stage lighting and wine. Sentenced to 50 years for kidnapping and life for rape Garrido was, unbelievably, granted an early parole in August 1988. Why? All the signs pointed to a very disturbed monster.
It boggles the mind that a sexual pervert would be allowed back on the streets. A sex offender is never cured. Once free he will return to his deviant ways. Garrido was allowed to return to "his life" and Jaycee Lee Dugard is paying a terrible price for Garrido's "rights under the law."
Philip Garrido isn't a man, he isn't an animal; he is a monster from the deep recesses who preys on innocence and those he can overpower. He is a degenerate who should have stayed locked up in prison. He should have but he was allowed to go free.
After all he has rights.
***©2009 all rights reserved Kristen Houghton
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Just let the Brother's and Aryan's gt to him and everything will work itself out
That's disgusting. No, strike that- it's positively horrific. I would say he lost the privalege of having the right to be allowed back on the streets due to his heinous acts. Wouldn't you?
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