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I completely agree with Sugarmaple's comments regarding this case. No amount of money will ever take away the pain the Garridos put this family through. If 20 Mil will provide a peaceful, safe and comfortable life for Jaycee and her children, then it's well worth it.
California's DOC has had problems for years. I hope they are working towards change and a better monitoring system to protect citizens from sickos like the Garridos. Now that the case has ended and the sentence has been handed down, 431 years for him and 35 for his wife seem fitting. They will never walk the streets again. Good riddance and may they both live a very long life behind bars.
I wish this case could have had the death penalty.
The ones I feel very sorry for are Jaycee's daughters. Garrido is their Father--a kidnapping rapist. Their Mother was a prisoner/slave, brainwashed and abused.
That family has more problems and issues than I can even imagine.
I would rather be poor and in debt than have those issues and $20 million. Forget it.
I completely agree with Sugarmaple's comments regarding this case. No amount of money will ever take away the pain the Garridos put this family through. If 20 Mil will provide a peaceful, safe and comfortable life for Jaycee and her children, then it's well worth it.
California's DOC has had problems for years. I hope they are working towards change and a better monitoring system to protect citizens from sickos like the Garridos. Now that the case has ended and the sentence has been handed down, 431 years for him and 35 for his wife seem fitting. They will never walk the streets again. Good riddance and may they both live a very long life behind bars.
I agree completely with this. Death is too good for these monstrous human aberrations. I hope both of them get a good dose of "prison justice", which, I understand, is commonly administered in prison to child molesters.
There was a show today on TLC about Garrido. He never should have been let out of prison. I don't think rapists should be eligible for early release. Let out thiefs, and drug addicts, drug sales and gang bangers first. Keep the perverts in jail. They are wired wrong. You can't fix them.
In my opinion $20 million isn't nearly enough...the police let these sickos slip through the cracks due to incompetence and laziness on a few occasions!!
I wish this case could have had the death penalty.
The ones I feel very sorry for are Jaycee's daughters. Garrido is their Father--a kidnapping rapist. Their Mother was a prisoner/slave, brainwashed and abused.
That family has more problems and issues than I can even imagine.
I would rather be poor and in debt than have those issues and $20 million. Forget it.
I understand what you mean, though I'm always amazed by the resiliency of the human spirit. IMO, Jaycee's experience with the Garridos could be compared to the Jews during the Holocaust. What horrible atrocities they endured.
Not to be flip and quote a movie line, but one that applies here is, "That, which does not kill us, makes us stronger." Jaycee and her daughters can now begin to build a new life - a better life - and they have the means to do it.
To play devils advocate, it seems to me Jaycee has some culpability in her own case. I can't imagine being abducted at 11 and at some point between that age and 29 not realizing you can just "walk" away. She must have lived one sheltered life before her abduction.
I'm sorry I think the judgement/settlement is way too much!
You have to view it outside of the box. You are picturing a healthy aged mind realizing she could walk away. We get a lot, and I mean a lot, out of the social experience. She was stripped away of that at 11 years old, I wouldn't be surprised if she had the mentality of a 14 year old.
There was a girl who a family close by adopted. This girl is 16 now, her mother kept her in a locked attic her whole life. She couldn't communicate outside of simple words and grunts. Doctors said she had the mentality of a 5 year old.
The thing that really bothers me, about this case and our society, is why women get off. The wife should have gotten just as much time as he did. Female sex offending teachers get a slap on the wrist compared to male teachers. An 18 boy in NC was arrested for having oral sex with a 15 year old girl. I think he spent 4 years in jail. A 38 year old female teacher slept with a 14 year old boy, she received 6 months probation.
I wonder if those here who think the 20 Mil is excessive would still think that, if they had gone through what Jaycee did.
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