Claim: Garrido Offered Kidnapping Prevention Tips

[Kadie]

Sep 2, 2009 10:40 pm US/Pacific
Claim: Garrido Offered Kidnapping Prevention Tips

ANTIOCH, Calif. (CBS13) ― In a chilling and ironic revelation, a longtime child safety advocate and former client of Phillip Garrido's printing business said that the man accused of kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard and holding her hostage for 18 years used to give her tips on child abduction prevention.

Janice Gomes said she has known and worked with Phillip Garrido for 15 years, and was sickened to discover that he was accused of holding Jaycee Dugard in his Antioch backyard for nearly two decades.

Missing kids and child safety is Janice Gomes' passion, and she often turned to Garrido to print documents for children safety. Once she hired Garrido to print a tip sheet for families to prevent kidnapping.

Gomes said that Garrido had some extra advice.

"He said, 'Children really shouldn't be walking to the bus stop by themselves. Children are no match for adults,'" Gomes said.

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http://cbs13.com/local/garrido.kidnapping.prevention.2.1161080.html

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Oh man!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. She's got to feel sick

Wonder if she ever saw Jaycee? I hope that young woman and her children are given a lot of help and love. They need it.

[Kadie]

3. She spoke to her on the phone,

Jaycee was working for the printing business.

This makes you think twice about people you felt were a little off. Maybe we should take things more seriously? Or at least try to be as aware as possible.

[WHAT]

4. I've been pondering this...

Mostly I've been wondering what the wife's role was and maybe we as spectators are actually in the wife's role...and we know. I think this thread triggered this chain of thought.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6448018&mesg_id=6448018

I've seen lots of situations where there is an active person partnered with a "spectator". I say "spectator" instead of passive partner because the passive person is the one that likes to watch. There seems to be gender confusion in these types of situations. I think of cheney in this respect...that watching (I do think cheney watched) enpowered him and helped him compensate for a weak sense of masculinity. A woman in a situation such as the wife could either feel a vicarious sense of empowerment for an aggressive nature she is forced to suppress or her power could be as the witness and validation that the man needed and was dependent on...he seems like someone who needed validation...and she knew it and had a handle on her situation that way. She opted-in.

People always talk about the by-standers that do nothing. In a way, I think we're all part of that and none of us are innocent. I wonder if it's more prevalent in cultures that are sticklers for gender roles?.

I don't know but I find it interesting. I'm no psychologist...I guess I approach it like Dostoyevski, as an observer (spectator, ha ha) but not a scholar, not even educated about it but I'd like to read a book on it.