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‘I don’t feel like I have this rage inside me and it’s building. I refuse to let him have that; he can’t have me. It would mean he had won' (Dugard, 2011, para. 1). This is how Jaycee Lee Dugard feels about her kidnapper, Phillip Garrido, after being held captive for eighteen years of her life. The crimes of Phillip Garrido should have easily been prevented if law enforcement, parole officers, and other officials would have done their jobs correctly. Not only could have the kidnapping been completely prevented, but ill-fated Jaycee Dugard should have been found within the first two years of living with the Garrido’s. Just the thought of how long Jaycee was missing, and the non stop torture that Garrido put her in is unbearable. June 10th, 1991 …show more content…
would change Jaycee Dugard’s life forever. Eleven-year-old Jaycee woke up and got ready for school just like she would any other day. The only thing different was that her mom didn’t give her a kiss goodbye because she was running late for work. Jaycee’s mom, Terry, would regret that for eighteen years of her life. Jaycee walked up a hill towards the bus stop feeling disappointed. She noticed a silver car starting to slow down and eventually came to a stop right next to her, there was a man driving and a woman in the passenger seat. Jaycee assumed they were lost and looking for directions. Before she new it, she was tased by Phillip Garrido with the help of his wife, Nancy, and put into the backseat of his car. A two hour drive to Antioch, California, the place where Jaycee would be repeatedly raped and tortured for the next eighteen years by an un humanlike man named Phillip Garrido. (Biography.com Editors, 2016) When eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was taken by two strangers, she had no idea who she was up against.
In an interview with Diane Sawyer, Jaycee said that her first words to the man that had taken her away from her mother were, “My parents are too poor, they won’t be able to afford the ransom,” but Phillip Garrido wasn’t looking for ransom. Garrido was already a registered sexefender at the time of the kidnapping, and had just been released from prison in 1988 after kidnapping and raping 25-year-old, Katie Callaway in 1977. Although his sentence was set to fifty years in federal prison and five years in a state prison, he was let out after serving just eleven years of his sentence. Garrido also had a drug and alcohol problem, which had already gotten him into trouble in the past, and was the start of his sex addiction. Phillip Garrido wasn’t the only bad guy in the kidnapping of Dugard, his wife, Nancy, was actually the cause of the entire crime. (Sawyer,2011) Nancy Garrido first met the love of her life in a prison visitation room, how romantic. Nancy was at the prison visiting her uncle, when she first caught a glimpse at Phillip Garrido, it was love at first sight. The couple communicated through letters, and were eventually wed behind prison walls. The kidnapping of Jaycee was all Nancy’s idea. She considered it a present to her pedophile husband so he could feed his disgusting addiction. To Phil, Jaycee was now his “property” and he could use her as he pleased. (Biography.com Editors,
2016) A dark soundproof shack that chimed with the noise of a lock, weird sheds and rooms, and a tent would be Jaycee’s many homes for eighteen years. Living in Garrido’s backyard was not the ideal situation for Jaycee, nor was being raped every single day. The first time Jaycee was raped, she was taken to a room lit up with colored lights, and a squeaky red bed. Her clothes were removed and she was placed on the bed. Her hands were handcuffed to the metal headboard, and Garrido fulfilled his revolting addiction. She said that she remembers crying and not quite understanding what was happening. As an eleven-year-old, Jaycee had not learned about the birds and the bees quite yet, so everything that was happening to her was not quite clear. She would experience the same thing over and over again, but it only got worse.(Biography.com Editors, 2016) `At just the age of thirteen, Jaycee went through a life changing experience. After eating fast food for meals everyday, Jaycee assumed that she was just gaining weight from her unhealthy diet, but that was not the case. She was pregnant. Going through a pregnancy at any age can be scary, but at the age of thirteen it is more frightening than ever. Jaycee had some experience with little kids after helping her mother take care of her younger sister, Shayna, but having to do it all on her own was definitely not something she was ready for. Luckily, Garrido had moved her into a new room where he set up a TV for her to watch and learn more about taking care of a child and giving birth. While Jaycee learned about that, Phil was learning how to deliver a baby. Taking Jaycee to a hospital was not an option for Phillip. If he did take Jaycee to a hospital, the risk of her being found would have been way too high and Phil would have been spending his life in prison. Not being able to go to the hospital forced Jaycee to deliver both of her children in the Garrido’s backyard. (Biography.com Editors, 2016) Going through labor is not an easy pain to endure. Going through labor all by yourself for the very first time is much worse. After just three years in Garrido’s possession, Jaycee would give birth to her first baby girl at the age of just fourteen. Alone and scared, Jaycee would go through labor all on her own until Garrido’s came to assist her. After excruciating pain for several hours, she saw her baby girl. Just three years later she would give birth to her second daughter at the age of seventeen. Jaycee was no longer alone, she had her two daughters and loved them dearly. Dealing with the Garrido’s now that she had two daughter was both a blessing and a curse. She finally had hope and two beautiful girls to rely on and keep her company. Even though she was living on her own now in a tent in the backyard, something was holding Jaycee back from escaping the mastermind pedophile. (Roberts, 2011) Not only was Jaycee physically mistreated, she was also brainwashed into Phil’s lies and promises. Looking at the case of Jaycee Dugard can be very confusing. Both of the Garrido’s would leave the house quite often, and even though Jaycee had several chances to escape, she wouldn’t. Thanks to Garrido’s bizarre stories about the outside world, Jaycee didn’t want to venture off where she had no one to rely on. Jaycee relied on Garrido for everything. She relied on him for food, shelter, and someone to protect her children. Garrido had trapped her mind into his little world. Jaycee was also afraid to bring her kids into the outside world. She was afraid that other sexual predators would find her daughters and put them through what she had gone through. Overall she was just scared of what might be outside the walls of Garrido’s property. It’s sad to think that Garrido could get away with all of this, even when he had people checking in on him. (Sawyer, 2011) The mistakes that law enforcement, parole officers, and other officials made is unbelievably sickening. The very first mistake was way back in 1988, before the kidnapping of Jaycee, when Phillip Garrido was released from prison after kidnapping and raping 25-year-old Katie Callaway in 1977. He was sentenced to fifty years in a federal prison and another five years in a state prison, but was let out after just serving eleven years of his sentence. After a thirty-five minute interview with Garrido, the parole board decided to put Garrido up for parole. Things like these should not be accepted. A registered sexefender should not be able to be put out into the public with innocent family members. Even though he was still going to be “supervised”, Garrido should have never been put on parole. (Rhee, 2011) Once Garrido was put on parole, many mistakes were made from many different officials. Garrido was supposed to start parole in 1999, but didn’t actually start parole until 2000. When he finally was put on parole, parole officers failed to discover Jaycee. Sixty home visits in ten years, and somehow Phil was still getting away with everything. How does this happen? The parole officers were aware of what Garrido was capable of, and even had a tracking device on him that had shown he was in the backyard just as much as he was in his own house. Even after being able to view how often Garrido hung out in his backyard, there was no further investigation and parole officers never stepped foot into his backyard. Garrido was not being supervised correctly, and the only one suffering from the parole officers mistakes, was innocent Jaycee and her two daughters. (Wagschal, 2011) One of the most jaw dropping mistakes made throughout the span of eighteen years, was the spotting of a little girl in Garrido’s living room. The parole officer questioned who the girl was, and Garrido lied saying that it was his brother’s daughter. If the parole officer would have done further investigation on Garrido’s brother, he would have discovered that he never had kids. The little girl that was actually standing in the living room during the time of the parole search was actually Jaycee’s little girl. The other mistake that the parole officer had made was the fact that Phillip Garrido was not supposed to have any children in his house without consent of an official, but nothing was done about it. The whole sighting of the little girl was immediately washed to the back of the parole officer’s mind. There needs to be some type of law or consequence to prevent mistakes like these from happening. If the parole officer would have taken his time and done his job like he was supposed to, Jaycee Dugard would have been found that very day, and her mother and sister would finally have the missing piece they had sat looking for, for eighteen wasted years of their lives. (Waschal, 2011) A neighbor of Garrido’s called 911 and complained that their were young girls living in his backyard. A police officer showed up to Garrido’s house, had a quick chat with him and left. The police officer didn’t even bother to go into the backyard to investigate, nor did he notify Garrido’s parole officer about the complaint. The officer got back into his car and drove away. If the police officer would have taken even just one minute out of his day to look up Garrido’s background, he would have found a shocking discovery. Police officers should be required to do a little more research when a complaint is made, and they should automatically have to do a background check before they can just put complaints to the side. If this officer would have done a background check, he could have freed Jaycee from the misery she was in, but it wasn’t just the police officer’s fault, everyone who ever had to do parole for Garrido, or those who let him out of jail early are the ones at fault. (Waschal, 2011) Jaycee was finally found when two campus police officials decided to do some investigating of their own. Phillip Garrido was doing a protest in front of the University of California, and two UCPD officers thought something seemed suspicious with him. He was with his and Jaycee’s two daughters when he was asked his name by the two officers and they made the right decision by taking time out of their day to look up Garrido’s name. They discovered he was a sexifender on parole and decided to call his parole officer to notify him about the two young girls. Jaycee was saved on August 26th, 2009, when Garrido’s parole officer asked him to come into his office. Garrido showed up with his two daughters and Jaycee. They asked Jaycee for her name and she lied at first but finally agreed to write her name down on a piece of paper. Jaycee was free and both of the Garrido’s were locked up. Jaycee could finally live her life with her two daughters and be happy once again, thanks to two UCPD officers who made the right decision and did their jobs like they were supposed to. (Sawyer, 2011) Although being some sort of an official who deals with criminals every day can be very stressful, there is no excuse for them not to do their jobs. In today’s society, cold cases are coming up every day, people are going missing and people are not being found. Something needs to be done and laws need to be changed. Waiting forty-eight hours to report someone missing is too long. Just imagine how many more cases could be solved if police officers and detectives would get on the case right away. Instead of family members getting calls saying that they found their loved one dead, those families should be getting calls that their loved ones were found and they’re still alive. A 20 million dollar reward for mistakes made in the case of Jaycee dugard will never bring back the eighteen years she was taken away from her loved ones.
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Nancy Hazel, later to become known as Nannie Doss, was born on November 4th, 1905 in Blue Mountain, Alabama. Nannie was one of five children of Jim Hazle and Louisa Holder Hazle. She endured an abusive, despondent youth with an oppressive, unfeeling father. Nannie never learned to read well, and her education was erratic due to her father pulling her out of school during the sixth grade to help work on the farm. Nancy was a prisoner in her own home. Her mother, however, was viewed as adoring and gracious to Nannie and her three sisters. Both Nannie and her mother hated James, who was a strict, often controlling father and husband with a nasty streak (http://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/doss-nannie.htm). Her most loved diversion was understanding her mother 's romantic books and longing for a romantic eventual fate of her own. Eventually, Nannie would become obsessed in her mission for the ideal spouse and romance.
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With matted hair and a battered body, the creature looked at the heartless man outside the cage. Through the dark shadows you could only see a pair of eyes, but those eyes said it all. The stream of tears being fought off, the glazed look of sheer suffering and despair screamed from the center of her soul, but no one cared. In this day in age I am ashamed to think that this is someone's reality, that this is an accurate description of a human being inside a Canadian women's prison . Exposing the truth behind these walls reveals a chauvinistic, corrupt process that serves no greater purpose. The most detrimental aspect of all is society's refusal to admit the seriousness of the situation and take responsibility for what has happened.
“Her jowls shiver in accusation Of crimes clichéd by Repetition.” Her life is dark there is no a way for this women to live her dream life, expect waiting the government
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