Jaycee Lee Dugard: Prison Inmate Marriages

Do you realize that Nancy Garrido was introduced to and married Phillip Garrido whilst he was in Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas serving a 50-year federal sentence for kidnap and rape?. She was 26 and he was 30. His psychiatric evaluation diagnosed him as a "sexual deviant and chronic drug abuser”.

So even though he was a known ‘sexual deviant’, locked away to protect society from him, society didn’t protect Nancy either from him or herself. We put them together and then let them get married! What were we thinking?

The issue of Prison Marriages needs to be re-examined!

Did we allow a sexual deviant, Phillip Garrido, to entrap a feeble, unprotected Nancy? Or was Nancy a willing female pedophile?

Perhaps one of society’s final taboos is the concept of ‘female pedophiles acting alone’. Nancy definitely was not acting alone but as soon as a man is present society assume the woman acted under duress, fear or is coerced by the man.This is how we take away any responsibility the woman has for the abuse of the child. We revolt against the thought that women can be willingly involved with the sexual abuse of children.

Female sexual abuse is much more threatening to the fabric of our society- it undermines our core beliefs and feelings about how women should relate to children.

Does Nancy Garrido fall into the title of a female pedophile? Was she coerced or acted willingly?
Wherever the truth of this lies there is one important issue we cannot dismiss. We paid for the wedding!

Garrido was convicted of kidnap and rape and began serving a 50-year federal sentence on June 30, 1977, at Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas. In a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation, Garrido was diagnosed as a "sexual deviant and chronic drug abuser."

While he was locked up in Leavenworth Phillip Garrido met Nancy. She was there visiting another prisoner, her uncle. On October 5, 1981, Phillip Garrido and Nancy Bocanegra were married at Leavenworth. So the marriage took place in 1981 even though Phillip Garrido was not released until 1988. Seven years later. Were they given conjugal rights for those seven years?

Let me pose again my question. Did we place a weak and vulnerable woman under the power and control of a diagnosed incarcerated “sexual deviant” or are women pedophiles much more responsible for their abuse of children than society wishes to admit?

Prison Marriages. Have we allowed our penitentiaries be a dating agency for sexual deviants? Not only that we then marry them!


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