I Am So Glad That Jaycee Lee Dugard Has Finally Been Found!

I am really happy that one of the countless missing children in America has been found.Even though it took almost two decades,Jaycee Lee Dugard has finally emerged from captivity.It is unbelievable to me that her captor was a registered sex offender.How is it that Phillip Garrido never got caught?

I think that the parole agent who was in charge of his case dropped the ball.And the police really screwed up.His neighbors let them know that they had some suspicions about Phillip Garrido because they saw children on his property.But,the police did not investigate Garrido.And they have apologized for that today.

What was absolutely abhorrent to me is the fact Phillip Garrido had two children with Jaycee Lee Dugard.She says she feels guilty for "bonding" with Garrido.Nothing that happened was her fault.The only person who should be harboring feelings of guilt is Phillip Garrido & his wife.

But since Phillip Garrido thinks that this is such "a heartwarming story",it's obvious that he doesn't feel too bad about the "disgusting thing" that he did.

I want to know why Nancy Garrido helped her husband abduct an 11 yr. old Jaycee & assist in her captivity for 18 years? It's just mind-boggling to me!

Here's more from MSNBC:

"Phillip Garrido, 58, is being held for investigation of various kidnapping and sex charges. Authorities said his 54-year-old wife, Nancy Garrido, was with him during the 1991 kidnapping in South Lake Tahoe and she also has been arrested.

Garrido was expected to appear in court on Friday afternoon. Investigators said he did not yet have an attorney.

Garrido's father told The Associated Press on Friday his son is "absolutely out of his mind."

Manuel Garrido said his son fell into a bad crowd when he was younger and started taking LSD. The elder Garrido said the drugs changed him from a good boy, whom everybody loved, to a crazy person.

Speaking by phone from his house in Brentwood, Manuel Garrido said he hasn't seen his son in years and has never been to the house where Phillip Garrido allegedly held Dugard captive.

Backyard compound
Dugard was taken directly to Garrudo's house in suburban Antioch and sheltered from the world in a secret, leafy backyard, investigators said Thursday. Her abductor, investigators said, raped her and fathered two children with her, the first when Jaycee was about 14. Those girls, now 11 and 15, also were kept hidden away in the backyard compound behind the home.

"None of the children have ever been to school, they've never been to a doctor," El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said. "They were kept in complete isolation in this compound."

Even a parole agent who visited Garrido's home didn't have an inkling about the hidden compound, Kollar said. Garrido is a registered sex offender on federal parole for rape and kidnapping convictions.

"The way the house is set up, the way the backyard is set up, you could walk through the backyard, walk through the house, and never know," Kollar said.

But neighbors said there were clues even before a parole agent on Wednesday noticed Dugard, now 29, who accompanied Garrido, his wife and the children to a parole office.

Neighbor Diane Doty said she could see the tents and often heard children playing in the backyard, the corner of which abuts her own backyard. She said she even suspected the children lived in the tents, but her husband said she should leave the family alone.

"I asked my husband, 'Why is he living in tents?'" she said. "And he said, 'Maybe that is how they like to live.'"

The Contra Costa County sheriff said Friday his department "missed an opportunity to intervene earlier" to capture the alleged kidnapper.

Sheriff Warren E. Rupf said a neighbor called police in November 2006 to report a backyard encampment at Garrido's home, but the investigating officer dismissed it as a routine code violation.

The deputy who inspected Garrido's yard did not know Garrido was a registered sex offender, even though the sheriff's department had the information.

Rupf said more suspicion and curiosity on the deputy's part could have uncovered the secret encampment where Dugard allegedly was held. There are "absolutely no excuses ... we should have had a better result," Rupf said."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.