Sick People Walk Among Us
Written by: Tom Sawyer
I’m not talking about HIV, the swine flu, any airborn virus or even the common cold. What I’m talking about are sex offenders; people who may live in your neighborhood and seem like normal people on the outside. Yes, they seem normal, but on the inside there is a sickness that is in some ways worse than a murder or other convicted felons.
As a father of a 1-year-old this really hits home – I can only imagine what I would do if one of these people tried anything with my daughter.
“The Monster charged with kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard and holding her captive in his backyard for 18 years had sick “sexual fantasies” about little girls for decades.
Phillip Garrido admitted that starting in 1968 he hung around schools and pleasured himself while “watching young females.”
“I have done it by the side of schools, grammar schools and high schools, in my own car,” Garrido said in court testimony obtained Tuesday by The Daily News.
Asked how old these girls were, Garrido replied, “From 7 to 10.”
Dugard was just 11 when prosecutors say Garrido and his wife, Nancy, abducted her in 1991 as she was walking to her school bus stop in South Lake Tahoe, Calif.
The victim was just 14 when she gave birth to the first of two girls she had by Garrido.
Garrido, 58, and his wife now face 29 felony counts in connection with Dugard’s abduction. But his dark desires were first revealed in 1977 while on trial for kidnapping and brutally raping Katherine Callaway Hall a year earlier.” (Dillon 2009)
It is also worth mentioning that Garrido served 12 years of a 50-life sentence after raping Katherine Callaway Hall in 1976. So this monster got out of jail in 1998 and a few years later abducted someone. Isn’t there something wrong with this story? How often do things like this happen in society?
Doesn’t something like this put other crimes in a different light? Rapists kill, but when the victims live it could be considered even more brutal because they have to put their lives back together. Think about Jaycee Lee Dugard’s two kids; what is she going to tell them about their father? But we waste a lot of energy and taxpayers’ money on dogs and someone who is dumb enough to shoot himself.
We could go on and on with a discussion like this and the situation would only grow more grimm. We often talk about racial issues, but I think everyone will agree with me when I say this problem is colorblind. Given the choice between a next door neighbor who is a card carrying racist or a sex offender I think I would have to choose the racist.
I will continue to check my neighborhood and I ask you to do the same because these people walk among us. Below are some websites you can use to see what sex offenders live near you.
- Criminal Check
- National Sex Offender Registry
- Map Sex Offenders - this site actually requires payment for a report. I think something is wrong with that.
Tags: Garrido, Jaycee Lee Dugard, mentally sick people in society, rapists, sex offender search, sex offenders
September 3rd, 2009 at 7:51 am
This story was surreal! I know the parents of Dugard are happy that their child is alive, but then to know what this sick man has done to her……this is absolutely crazy! And the probation officer who missed all of this — OMG! Talk about someone who has a lot of ‘xplainin to do!
I worked with federal probation for 13 years and I have read numerous case files which involved sex offenders. They look and act ‘normal.’ But the things that they think about — it is unbelievable! The 3 sites you listed is a great start to help people be aware of their neighbors.
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:13 am
“Given the choice between a next door neighbor who is a card carrying racist or a sex offender I think I would have to choose the racist.”
I had never thought about this but totally agree. Somehow in the shadows of a sex offender I too would prefer a racist next door.
This story is so sad and the question you have to ask, is there anyway for this poor woman and her kids to ever move on from this? 18 years is a long time, it’s almost like her real life/family was a dream and the reality that she was living was her nightmare. I truly hope they can get the help they need to recover mentally and physically form this horrible situation.
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September 3rd, 2009 at 9:24 am
There isn’t a therapist around that will make her life any less messed up. She has scars that run deep and have no signs of healing anytime soon. Can you ever really move on from something like this? I think Old boy never should’ve been released in the first place. If you are sentence for 50 years than that’s what you should do, minimum. If over crowding is a problem and that’s why they let these sicko’s back on the street; maybe we need to ramp up some capital punishment. I’m sure some will disagree with me. But I have little to no tolerance for criminals, especially, rapists, child molesters, and murderers. I can tell you this much one of these freaks even sneezes to close to my baby, they’ll be swallowing a Glock.
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:40 pm
This is something that is easy to research and hard at the same time. It was easy because information is easy to find and unfortunately in abundance. It was hard because after a while is starts to bring out anger and other emotions.
You know, sometimes when you write something you get involved and don’t really step back and look at the product until you are done. Having had the opportunity to step back and look at this it is upsetting to say the least.
Once this happens in your life there is no way to undo the damage.
Can we get a new classification of criminal and make sure people like this never know freedom again? This is a pre-meditated, sick crime! Except for statutory rape, one offense should end freedom forever.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:57 am
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September 10th, 2009 at 10:15 am
@Aaron – what is a glock?
September 19th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Getting to maters that mater is something we seem to be able to get down to humbly; I would like to share this with you. This from my life experience is a true connection to the ties of races through our own sex laws which have been built on misconceptions and myth.
The Supreme Court just ruled on sex offender laws where some factions of our government think by some inert reasoning that sex offender should be quarantined like some virus steaming from draconian/Islamic law sex offenders should be executed. I have seen for myself, video taken in another country where a sex offender is placed on a pole much like the Catholics use to use a pyramid shaped object and have them sit on it and spin, the pole travels through the body looking for the throat but if not found its ok cause the sharpened end of the pole will come out somewhere. The heritage of the act is in its self a throwback to troglodyte’s who are so obsessed with sex they can find that the way to deal with the issue is as revolutionary, as war, and two wrongs don’t make a right but has in fact called up deep rooted issues of people who have had to put up with this kind of “hierarchy” of historic hysteria far to long. A word taken from hysterectomy, hysteria is tied to castration used to make animals less threatening right? Good old Monty Hall. Well no wonder it’s wrong, right?
Anyway we are supposed to be the most advanced nation and we still have a death penalty when the rest of the world except for nations we are still warring with, {think!} While other nations went home our weapons dealers and torture lovers delighting in support for the death of people they don’t know or want to simply because they don’t know how to get money with out taking it from someone by force, is that supposed to includes mutilations? In my humble opinion that alone are terrorist activities as much as severed hands, ears, heads, or making a case with nothing more than an obsession justified by lies.
The truth about the sex offender registry will come out soon enough. When it does, People will see how the use of the registry was created, and by exactly who and why and the devastation it has created and the worthlessness of the use of it. It’s origin in the Crow laws that brought disgrace to our nation allowing thieves and murderous societal bigots who have trashed any shot at making good of a program in its design to make money destroying our nation and its people. We can not play god and we can not survive using this behavior model because you are compounding the problem.
It’s a ruse designed by people who are getting rich off the castration/hysterectomy/health care/physic care of people thrusex laws that have gone bonkers. What about the people who are being used by the Medicare programs that requires these mutilations for both men and woman after they take their means of support? Can’t you see? You have created the model and it is worthless! Why don’t you just indiscriminately kill people you don’t know that’s statically the next sex offender because over 90% of all new offences are people not on the sex offender registry and the numbers are increasing not decreasing so as a behavior model the chumps put together is really screwed up and they were told before they tried it. So what is the use of such laws as the sex offender registry other than to terrorize people? With the murder of so many sex offenders and the continued disregard for life by the use of the registry it’s just a mater of time before the federal government will be held liable for the deaths through federal court.
In a nation where a statement may have a double or triple meaning and our entire linage can be traced through mud, guts, and beer it’s nice once in a while to get the picture of what is meant instead of what some thinks someone may have implied. So it is from the trenches to the hill. Remember the game where someone says something in someone’s ear then passes it the same way to the next; I stopped dancing before I started this hitch. Glad to see you have that kind of drive. Best regards
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