Jaycee Dugard Abduction: Why Did Wife Stand By?
For 18 years, Nancy Garrido stood by, knowing her husband kept another woman in captivity.
Twenty-nine-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped in 1991, when she was 11 years old, by a registered sex offender named Phillip Garrido. Garrido fathered two daughters with her, now ages 11 and 15, and kept all three women in isolated sheds behind his house. Now, after 18 years of captivity and a chance investigation by University of California, Berkeley police officers, Dugard was finally discovered this past Wednesday.
"It's kind of a shocker," said Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, to CNN on Friday. "It's just sick, it benefited him but destroyed everybody else. That's pretty sick."
Probyn witnessed Jaycee's abduction in front of his home in South Lake Tahoe.
"When it first happened, I was thinking, 'If I had my car keys, I would have chased him and done this and this,'" Probyn said. "But lately, toward the last few years, I just wanted an ending to this."
He told CNN that he's still in disbelief at the recent turn of events.
But perhaps the most disturbing and unbelievable detail to come out of this case is the fact that Phillip Garrido's wife, Nancy Garrido, knew about Jaycee the entire time. She was present in the car when Jayce was kidnapped. And she remained silent all 18 years, as Jaycee and her daughters lived behind the Garrido's California house, never having gone to school or a doctor. Marrying Mr. Wrong
Investigators have charged Phillip Garrido with kidnapping and abuse after police discovered Dugard on Wednesday. Nancy Garrido is also in police custody.
One must wonder what goes through the mind of a wife like this, someone who can stand idly by as her husband kidnaps, rapes and keeps captive another woman. Though the investigation is now ongoing, perhaps more details will emerge in her role in this 18-year saga. Was it fear that kept Nancy silent? Or does this just go to show how some women can overlook the monster in their husbands? Why Do Victims Of Domestic Violence Stay?
Discussion
Sasha hit the nail on the head about this woman. Nancy sought Phillip out while he was still in jail for previous abductions and rapes. She's one of those groupies that see jail birds as a good catch. I mean what kind of women troll the prison system for suitable mates unless they themselves are of a certain bent of mind?
With respect and gratitude for the opportunity to address thdr's statement about women and victimology as below:
"in every instance where a man and a woman have acted in concert it has been the male who initiates the activity--who dominates the woman psychologically, with physical and emotional threats, etc."
This is an inaccurate statement, even though it is a prevalent point of view. It's what we've been brainwashed to believe from the cradle ... sugar and spice and everything nice? BS. We women are as susceptible to the rage, mental illness and violence that any man is.
Let me demonstrate:
Exhibits A thru H
A) Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo, before Paul hooked up with Karla he was 'just' a rapist. He meets Karla and boom, they are killing little girls together. It was the very same belief expressed by thdr that allowed Karla to get her sweetheart deal. It was only after she got her deal that the video tapes were found which revealed she was an active, willing and aggressive participant, and likely the killer of at least two of their victims. Her own sister being the first.
B) Robert Pickton and Dinah Taylor. Dinah brought women to Pickton, she befriended women she wanted to see die. read the transcripts. Where is she now? Scott effin free. Just like Karla.
C) Brenda Debakker and James Rutherford, Brenda is a convicted rapist convicted of more than one rape. Her latest was of a prostitute that she picked up with her boyfriend James Rutherford, they abducted her and tortured her for 13 hours. She initiated it. She was the rapist with previous convictions, and she has absolutely no remorse. see: Woman subject to same law as Homolka calls restrictions 'not that much of a hassle' at www.ottawamenscentre.com/
D) Look up the case of Nina Courtepatte, she was sold out by her so called best friend, a girl. In fact their were several girls present who participated in luring, beating, sexually assaulting and eventually killing the little girl. Afterward they all decided to go get something to eat.
E) Jasmine Richardson and Jeremy Stienke, google that medicine hat 'couple' for more info.
F) Kimberly Noyes in the murder of her autistic neighbor child, John Fulton.
G) Karen Matthews UK mother guilty of staging the abduction of her small daughter in order to claim the reward money.
H) Sunday school teacher Melissa Huckaby guilty of raping, killing and disposing of eight year old Sandra Cantu, a neighbor child and playmate of the monsters own eight yr old daughter.
And that's just off the top of my head. These are 8 recent and historical cases, five of which include a male and female perpetrator where the female was not the cowed victim of a man but rather his willing partner.
But back to Nancy Garrido, if she was so afraid of Phillip, then why not take the opportunity to free Jaycee and the girls and run for her own life the moment he was sent back to jail in 1999?
I doubt the wife is of sound mind. In any case, not to turn the topic away from relationships, I'm glad the story is bringing the massive problem of modern day sex slavery to light.
This is a little sexist. What I find disturbing is your point of view. :\ If you can't believe that a woman can be monstrous, then you have problems.
I agree with taintedpastry; she is a monster for not doing anything at all.
what a crock of bull. of course she assisted and helped him keep them there. frankly, i hope they both get thrown in general population with the whole prison knowing what they did to first a little girl, and then her children.
"Was it fear that kept Nancy silent? Or does this just go to show how some women can overlook the monster in their husbands?"
So, because she's a woman she's not capable of a monstrous act? 18 years later, I would find it extraordinarily hard to believe that she didn't assist him and help with the decision making regarding their captive.
It's this kind of assumption - that only Men can be evil, and all women are either neutral or good and oppressed - that sets back actual equality and equity in the modern world. I think you need to expand your views and judgments regarding gender.
I am willing to be corrected about this, but my knowledge of similar cases--serial killers, abductions and kidnappings--is that in every instance where a man and a woman have acted in concert it has been the male who initiates the activity--who dominates the woman psychologically, with physical and emotional threats, etc. This can get quite complicated, particularly in a given social context; the reports I've seen mention, in passing, that Garrido was spotted by police passing out "religious literature," and I suspect we may be hearing more about this aspect of the case as details emerge (what a cliche!); Mr. Garrido seems to be quite delusional. I am not saying that women cannot act monstrously, but that the initial dynamic in such partnerships seems to consistently be male-psychotic leading female-hysteric. I would be very interested to hear of a case which contradicts this, and I would not be terribly surprised if someone managed to turn one up.
