More details in the sickening story of Jaycee Dugard’s 18-year ordeal, and it’s frightening to realize this nightmare occurred in a nation that prides itself on the rule of law.
Here’s the latest from the LA Times:
Reporting from San Francisco, Orinda, Calif., and Antioch, Calif. -- As details continued to emerge about Jaycee Lee Dugard's alleged kidnapper, questions intensified Monday over how Phillip Garrido could have served only 11 years in prison after a 1976 rape and kidnapping for which he had been given a 50-year federal sentence as well as a life term in Nevada.
Garrido was convicted of kidnapping in federal court for abducting Katherine Callaway in South Lake Tahoe on a November night nearly 33 years ago and driving her -- handcuffed and hogtied -- to Reno. He then pleaded guilty to a Nevada state rape charge for assaulting her in a storage unit.
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This is the question of the hour, Rev. Bergman.
ReplyDeleteI suspect it has something to do with just how "charming" sexual predators can be.
The parole board and, subsequently his parole officers, bought his act again and again. Maybe because they *wanted to.*
Hi SYD,
ReplyDeleteThe more I learn about this travesty the more unbelievable and shocking it becomes.
this is just unreal.
ReplyDeleteBecky,
ReplyDeleteGarrido is obviously a very sick man who should have been kept in confinement, if not in prison, in a mental health facility for the protection of himself and others. Something went terribly wrong in our judicial system and in our law enforcement practices.