Just to throw a few things out there. Since it is obvious that a autobiography of her kidnapping and sexual slavery will make a impartial jury all but impossible to find, could it be she is TRYING to get Garrido and his wife acquitted? She certainly doesn’t need the money anymore and I thought “reliving the horrors” was supposed to be tramatic for such victims. So much for that theory. I know I would really get slammed if I mentioned any of the other possibilities that spring to mind.

And she has $50 million dollars and is RENTING a house on a street where all the neighbors know about her and “protect her secret residence”? Come on! Does anyone really believe that?

To answer your question, the problem is that I just don’t like being lied to. If you want privacy, you don’t keep selling pictures, videos and interviews to the media. If you are “trying to heal”, you don’t start out by writing a tell-all book about your experience. And please save all that BS about “writing the book is her way of dealing with the trauma”. There are only two possible reasons for her writing this book at this point…money and/or she is trying to effect the outcome of the Garrido’s conviction and sentencing. Although I personally think that deal was cut along with the $20 million dollar “award”. I have said from the beginning that neither she nor Garrido would EVER appear in open court. Lo an behold…now she is going to be “spared” from testifying and Garrido is getting a plea deal. What a shock.

OMG. I am sorry I even woke you up. You can close your eyes and stick your head back in the sand now.

32yearlocal:

Thank you for actually making sense in the comment roll and having the decency and respect not to insult other people who are entitled to their own opinions. Thumbs up to you!

Wonder if spacecowboy lived in the Meyers community when all of this happened. I did and my kids were very effected by what happened to someone who they went to school with. It is Jaycee’s right to do whatever she wants with her life as you have the right to your opinion, whether myself or 32yearlocal agree. More power to victims to get whatever they can to rectify a terrible wrong that was done to them. I definitly don’t have my head in the sand. I worked with victims for 20 years in this town and know alot about tragedy and healing.

First, I am sympathetic toward the the terrible ordeal Ms Dugard has suffered. It was a horrible tragedy and she was a victim, pure and simple. What I have an issue with is the BS that the family and especially, the authorities and news media are putting out there. Maybe what I find most discouraging is that the vast majority of the general public buys anything about this case they hear or see. Regardless of how little sense it makes.
I also know a bit about sexual abuse victims and this is the first one I have ever heard of that was so eager to sell pictures and interviews and write tell all books immediately after they were “rescued”. The women I have known that were sexually abused when young were reluctant in the extreme to talk of the experience. To my knowledge, none of them ever received (blackmailed? extorted?) a $20 million “award” from the state it happened in. It seems Ms Dugard is the first to do that.
Doesn’t ANYONE find it the least bit odd that not one single state official has received so much as a verbal reprimand for their supposed gross negligence? In fact every one of them have been given promotions, early retirements, new identities, etc and relocated. They weren’t chastised…THEY WERE PROMOTED. And after everything else the State of CA is going to give the Garridos a plea deal. What a surprise.
Sometimes I feel like I am one of the last people left that has any kind of grip on reality. Everyone else seems to live in a dream world.

Elizabeth Smart only gave interviews years after her rescue. The book came even later. I don’t recall hearing about her being paid for any of those interviews either. To my knowledge she never sold any pictures of herself to the media. She also took the stand in court to help convict her kidnapper. She didn’t help him get a plea deal.(Admittedly, I believe Ms Smart to be an exceptionally strong and dynamic young woman. She should be the poster child for sexual abuse/kidnap victims.)
Ms Dugard and family on the other hand, had their own pictures taken and then approached People Magazine offering them for what People themselves called “a small fortune”.
Since you bring it up, there was never a paternity test done on Ms Dugards daughters. The media just gradually started claiming they were Garrido’s and the authorities never said otherwise. Eventually they just started claiming it as well as to do anything else would really have opened a can of worms. You will see this if you follow the case from the beginning.
There have been many cases of state officials negligence causing harm and even death to children and CA has never offered anything remotely close to $20 million. They have also made it clear that they never intend to again. This case is special and unique but not just in the way you see it. Doesn’t common sense scream that there had to have been other prominent people involved? Wouldn’t you think CA would have been happy to announce that they have fired or at least demoted a few of the officials they admit are responsible?
You are not going to believe any of this of course. You are going to believe only the things that make you feel warm and fuzzy. Like Ms Dugard earned a high school diploma after only a few weeks. That she became a competent licensed driver as soon as she got behind the wheel of a car the first time. I would not be surprised to hear any day she has been awarded her Harvard Degree. The real world just doesn’t work like that.
Don’t think on it too hard. I am sure you will believe whatever you read or hear last from the media.

sev, You wouldn’t be Ms Dugards 7-figure-a-year Press Agent would you? You certainly sound like it.

I still hold with my position that there have been, and still are, many lies told about this case. Conspiracy theories…yeah, you can call them that. It doesn’t mean it’s not true.