Jaycee Lee Dugard: yard of known violent S.O. not subjected to any form of examination for Eighteen Years!

An unusually large proportion of sex offenders are located in Antioch. The media reports. This could have given the authorities in Antioch just cause to ensure they had a first class system of monitoring these people so that we were all afforded effective protection, especially young girls and women. Phillip Garrido was regularly seen at Garrido’s house by his parole officer but even after all the reports by neighbors made to police Garrido’s garden and yard was never checked. It beggars belief. Are we to believe that the authorities, knowing they had such large numbers of sex offenders, never felt it necessary to put in place a system of monitoring that included checking the garden when the public reported hearing children in the backyard and that people were actually living in the back yard.

Keeping children in the garden for that length of time without the authorities becoming aware, especially with his history, is a shameful indictment of the authorities. We are told he was regularly visited at his home by his parole officer who interviewed him with the girls being just feet away. I’m feeling very wary of the explanation the parole office will give us as to why their visits never revealed the presence of the girls. Please don’t let it be his right to privacy! If this is the reason given by the parole service as to why no examination was carried out. They haven’t put this forward yet. But I can hear it being muted in the background already!

The whole thing is shocking!

I’m reading in the media comments about how underfunded, undermanned and overworked the various departments are that have been working on this case for the last 18years. The FBI, the Sherif’s dept and the Parole Services. What has this to do with checking the garden and backyard? The failure to check his garden and backyard when neighbors have reported hearing children’s voices in the backyard, that people were living in the backyard, has absolutely nothing to do with man hours, workload, underfunding or anything else that may be put forward as a reason why this appalling situation went undetected by the authorities for 18years.

I’m feeling utterly frustrated and confused by all of this. Those poor poor girls should never have had to endure those years of captivity. There was just no need.

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