August 31, 2009 3:55 PM

Nancy Garrido: "The Real Monster" in the Jaycee Lee Dugard Kidnapping?

By
Edecio Martinez
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(CBS/AP)
Mug shot of Nancy Garrido and a sketch of the suspect who grabbed Jaycee Dugard in 1991.

ANTIOCH, California (CBS/AP) They say she would have done anything he asked her to.

Nancy Garrido, the woman some say is the "real monster," faces the same 29 charges and life imprisonment as her husband Phillip Garrido in the 1991 abduction of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard.

Photos: Inside Dugard's Terror Tent
Photos: Jaycee Lee Dugard Found Alive

Nancy seemed to have been a key player in keeping 11-year-old Jaycee in secret captivity for nearly two decades, standing by as Phillip raped and even fathered the little girl's two girls.

Phillip's brother, Ron Garrido, claims Nancy was like "a robot," according to an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.

Phillip Garrido met his future wife while he was serving time at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan., for a 1976 rape, according to a spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Public Safety.

(Nick Stern)
Photo: Police say kidnapped victim Jaycee Lee Dugard was forced to live inside this tent.

Photos: Inside Dugard's Terror Tent

They communicated through letters and then married in a ceremony held behind prison walls, according to Ron Garrido.

Phillip Garrido served about 10 years of a 50-year federal sentence for kidnapping, and less than a year for a concurrent Nevada sentence of five years to life in prison for sexual assault. He was paroled
in 1988.

Neighbors who have met Nancy Garrido say her disturbing non-communicative behavior was even stranger than her husband's religious rants, according to the Telegraph.

"In some ways to me she is the real monster," Cheyvonne Molino, an aquentance of the Garridos, told the British paper. "She is a woman and should never have let this happen."

Molino said she saw Nancy Garrido and Dugard shopping together in a local supermarket this year.

(AP Photo )
Photo: Jaycee Lee Dugard

In 1993, a violation of Phillip Garrido's parole conditions sent him back to federal prison from April to August.

The role that Nancy Girrado played in keeping Dugard in captivity while her husband was in prison for four months is not yet fully clear.

But what is clear, is that when Phillip Girrado returned, Dugard was still imprisoned.

He impregnated her shortly thereafter, according to the age of Dugard's first child, 15.

Photos: Inside Dugard's Terror Tent
Photos: Jaycee Lee Dugard Found Alive

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by AnnieDanny July 11, 2011 1:11 PM EDT
I don't understand why Nancy Garrido is the way she is, but I do agree that I think she's despicable.

Apparently the Barzee woman (who helped kidnap Elizabeth Smart) is truly sorry for her ways, now. She was just as bad as this Nancy Garrido.

For normal women, it's impossible to understand how a woman could assist a sexual predator. Like the "Barbie & Ken" case in Canada, which is another hideous example. These women are just as dirty as the filthy men they married.
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by MarcusK308 October 26, 2009 7:54 PM EDT
Please let's not forget the fact that it was HER who actually reached out and grabbed Jaycee that June day in 1991, not HIM. I believe the control he has over his own wife should speak loudly to all who might wonder why Jaycee didn't try to escape, try contacting someone first chance she had. I believe HIS control over Jaycee was based on fear and therefore her compliant nature may very well be why Jaycee's still here with us today.
I believe Jaycee did what Jaycee felt she needed to do to survive, as well as to protect those who she loved and those who loved her. Jaycee's in the best place she could ever be, the place where she should been all along . . . . with her mother, her family, with those who always have and always will love her uncoditionally.
Jaycee's mother Terry Dugard (Probyn now) If theres anybody out there who's capable of doing what it takes to complete this miracle unfolding before us . . . . It's Terry Dugard (Probyn). This isn't another something that "I Believe", this is something that "I Know for a fact" as i know Terry personally, went to school with her, shared a relationship with her. Loved that girl, and continue to do so today.

P.S.
there should be a "Jaycee's Law" as a result of this ordeal . . . I'd like to see it require that those imprisoned worldwide for such crimes, especially those against children, serve EVERY SINGLE DAY of there sentences.

MarcusK308
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by k8inri October 22, 2009 2:01 PM EDT
While I agree that Nancy Garrido is just as accountable and deserves the same punishment, I have a few questions/observations:

1. Why is it that Nancy is the "real" monster of the two? Aren't they both monsters, and isn't he--the repeat offender--that much more despicable? I think it says something about our society that just because she is a woman we automatically expect her to have more compassion towards children and more of a conscience in general. It just isn't the case; it's conditioned.

2. Upon reading the comments on this article and others, as well as on Garrido's own blog, I think it's interesting how we, as a country, are responding to this case of digusting violence with more violence of our own. Everyone seems utterly shocked that this man and woman were capable of doing terrible things to this young girl but they themselves are capable of constructing the most graphic death threats I've ever read. Of course, saying and doing are two separate things, but I think this, too, is a reflection on where we are at as a country.

3. Also, we don't live under Hammurabi's Code. "Eye for an eye," though it sounds like fun, is not justice by American standards, no matter what Texas has to say.
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by saxman8837 September 6, 2009 1:06 AM EDT
The first thing people want to do is blame GOD, How could GOD let, this, that, this,. But they don't know him! then when disaster strikes! first thing out of your mouth is GOD help!


But by the Grace of GOD! this world is still intact for now!
I know I'll get a lot of flack back for all of you! but for you all I will say is.


God bless you!
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by saxman8837 September 6, 2009 12:56 AM EDT
I believe the problem is just man! If anyone really read the bible, they would see even me! that all have fallen short of the Glory of GOD!

And if you have read it clearly states Satan is the ruler of this World!

So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old,
called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to
the earth, and his angels were cast out with him? (Revelation 12:9).

The bigest Deception is Satan, has people thinking he does not exist!

Even I until 3 months ago was a part of the deception as well as many of my fellow so called Christans!

I mean the other no believers and all the others out there are a given not to say they don't mater, they do! he just does not have to work that hard on them.

But for the believers if it states "Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world" this means the world and most of the Christans are being DECEIVED!

I've search thru History and there it is I'll say 90% of todays Christans don't keep the comandments of GOD! and if this was not important, you would not find mentioned thru out the New Test, and Revelations .

I bet you can go to any city and see for yourself 90 or 98% of the churches claim they keep the Comandments of GOD BUT THE OMIT 1 OF THE TEN.

See for yourself if you go to church ask yourself why you obey all commandments but 1, if you don't know Hint: 4th commandment.

Don't believe me research history and find out where the switch happened.

God bless!
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by Swingstater September 5, 2009 11:07 AM EDT
Obviously, this man was highly manipulative and chose victims who could be subjected to his attempts to control them. Like some professionals have said his victims could have complied due to their fear of threatened harm which became a form of Stockholm syndrome over time.

Many now do not not understand why these women could not have gone to the police or authorities but, realistically, the service that you get from your authorities depends entirely on who you end up with at the time. (Wasn't that apparent by the fact police actually did show up at the door a few times over the years and didn't bother to even search the backyard?) And how many women have gone to the police for protection of domestic violence trusting the police totally to find that the system offered little or no protection when the abusive ex came looking for them?

Unlike a previous poster stated, certainly espousing a faith in God shouldn't trip anyone's personal alarms but crazy, manipulative behavior combined with this guy's violent background should have--especially for the authorities who let him our of prison to inflict more harm on innocent people.
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by jasmine529 September 2, 2009 11:45 PM EDT
You people....this is not about religion.
1. As a mother, i felt the pain & sharing the same tears as Mrs. Dugard.
2. Both of this monsters are mentally unstabble & felt sorry for their behavior because what they did will be surely judge in hell.
3. About the parole officer who was in charged in his case years ago. Don't he need to make a home visit then?
4. Can a tent be soundproofed surrounded? The tent seems to be quite fragile...
5. Were she drugged all along? were she chained? Bitten?
6. who delivered the babies?
Realizing the beast was not there for few months, she did not attempt to escape?
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by mtwyogal September 6, 2009 12:56 AM EDT
As to #6-good idea, let's blame the little girl.
by melinaustin September 2, 2009 2:02 PM EDT
Commenting on Cheyvonne Molino's statement - yes-she is a woman and women should NEVER let this happen to anyone. However, the problem is that, still, even after the Feminist Revolution in this country, there are many women who hate themselves and hate other women. This comes from being mentally, verbally, or physically abused when they were children. It comes from the examples set by other women. This cycle must end. Sometimes women do women more harm than men who are dominering and have no respect for women because they sit by and let it happen. We will find more out about Nancy Garrido's past soon and yes, she is a monster for letting this happen but we will also find out that she is probably part of the same abusive cycle many women in this country grow up in.
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by jasmine529 September 2, 2009 11:56 PM EDT
were nancy abused? drugged? forced?
There must be a skeleton behind the closet,,,,
by lorjon1 September 6, 2009 2:55 PM EDT
and probably yes she was part of the "same abusive cycle" but the cycle must end. and she must be punished. and when her attorney says she is "scared" now, she must be scared for all that she did and witnessed and allowed to happen even if she didn't fully agree, which we don't even know in any case. Read up on Karla Homolka in Canada and how she got a much lighter sentence than her boyfriend when they tortured and raped 2 schoolgirls but the videos shown later proved she enjoyed every minute of it at the time it occurred.
by ShotgunReynolds September 2, 2009 1:09 PM EDT
Whacko. ! The woman/ wife IS just as responsible as the the man. All U innocent folks close ur eyes, OK? When women have sex or molest is diff. I am sure that BOTH these people enjoyed having "Human Sex-Toys" in their back yard. PLEEEEASE. It was only the sperm of the man that shows up with children being born.
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by internet_killed_tv_star September 2, 2009 1:07 PM EDT
eeeeikes
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