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Human Drama : At the Parole Office - An analysis
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| Posted by Ballie on 2009/11/25 11:40:00 (137 reads) |
In this narratives, we analyse the statements and behaviour of the actors in that building, namely the parole officer, Alyssa, Nancy, Phillip Garrido and the Concord police. Our interest is largely focused on Alyssa.
Download the original report Special Report from the Office of the Inspector General - State of California
More details from googlemap
2 pm, Tues August 25 - Phillip Garrido met Officers Ally Jacobs and Lisa Campbell for about 15 minutes. He left UC Berkeley and droved back to Antioch with his daughters. During that time, Officer Ally Jacobs rang Garrido's parole agent and left a message expressing her concerns. According to the officer, Garrido appeared to have a mental illness, and if he was required to take medication, she said, it was apparent he was not. Because of his sex offender status, the officer was also concerned for the safety of the two young girls accompanying Garrido. The officer noted that the girls, who called Garrido “daddy,” and whom Garrido referred to as his daughters, acted as if Garrido’s strange behavior was normal.
After 3 pm, Tues 25 August - Garrido left his meeting at the UC Berkeley at probably about 2:15 pm or maybe later. Information from google map indicate that the drive home would have taken about 44 min.
The OIC report starts here.
Following up on the officer’s information, Garrido’s parole agent later that day went to Garrido’s residence with another agent. The parole agents handcuffed Garrido and detained him outside the residence while they searched the house. The parole agents found Garrido’s wife and mother in the residence but no one else. The agents then drove Garrido to the parole office for questioning.
During the trip, Garrido explained that the girls who accompanied him to UC Berkeley were the daughters of a relative and that he had permission from their parents to take them to the university. Garrido told the parole agents that a parent had picked up the girls when he returned from UC Berkeley.
Comment: On Tues August 25 afternoon, Phillip Garrido had committed to the story that the 2 young girls were the daughters of a relative.
At the parole office, Garrido’s parole agent reviewed Garrido’s parole file with a supervisor. After much deliberation, they decided nothing needed to be done and the parole agents returned Garrido to his house with instructions to report to the State of California parole office the following day to further discuss his visit to UC Berkeley and to follow up on the parole agent’s concerns related to the young girls.

Comments: Google map tells us the trip should take about 23 min. If he was in the parole office for about 30 min and then taken back, we can assume about one and half hour had pass. The time would be about 4:30 pm or after. More likely after. The Garrido's household would have been disrupted. Perhaps dinner with the Nancy, Alyssa and the 2 girls were disrupted. Since their discovery would have been a disaster at this stage, we surmised that Alyssa and the 2 younger girls stayed back in the garden in Alyssa's tent. They could have gone to bed semi-hungry. A resentment was brewing within Alyssa.
Morning Wed, August 26, 2009 -Garrido arrived at the parole office, the parole agent spoke with the UC Berkeley police officer, thereby obtaining a more detailed description of her interaction with Garrido and her concern about the safety of the two young girls.
The parole agent was surprised at the officer’s description of the girls’ relationship with Garrido because the agent believed that Garrido had no young children. As the parole agent was on the phone with the officer, he observed that Garrido was accompanied by his wife and three young girls.
The females were separated from Phillip Garrido After completing his conversation with the officer, Garrido’s parole agent wisely isolated the females, including Garrido’s wife, to identify them.
Comment: The report was vague on the following issue. The report stated the females were separated from Phillip Garrido. Were they questioned individually or were they questioned together as a group?
Identification The oldest of the three young females identified herself as Alyssa, the second oldest as Angel, and the youngest as Starlet.
Further questioning During further questioning, Alyssa advised that she was the girls’ mother. The parole agent believed that Alyssa looked too young to be the mother and asked her age. Alyssa said that she was 29 years old, laughingly explaining that she often gets that comment and that people believe she is the girls’ sister.
Comment: Something happened here. Alyssa was supposed to be the 2 girls older sister. Did she revealed this information in the privacy with the agent or was this information revealed in front of Nancy Garrido and the girls? The phrasing of the report seemed to indicate that at this point in time, they were together as a group.
As the parole agent continued his questioning, Alyssa and Garrido’s wife became defensive and agitated, wanting to know why the parole agent was interrogating them.
The parole agent explained that he was investigating Garrido’s visit to UC Berkeley with the two young girls. Alyssa said she was aware that Garrido had taken the girls to UC Berkeley and that he was a sex offender who was on parole for kidnapping and raping a woman. She added that Garrido was a changed man and a great person who was good with her kids. Alyssa subsequently stated that she didn’t want to provide any additional information and that she might need a lawyer.
Comment: The phrasing of the report indicated that Alyssa and Nancy were together at this point. We concluded that the females were together as a group at this point in time.
Note that she vouched and defended Phillip Garrido's character.
The parole agent then directed Garrido to a room and asked him to explain the relationship of the three young girls. Garrido thought for a moment and responded that they were all sisters and that the father was his brother who lived nearby in Oakley, California. Garrido stated that the parents were divorced, the girls were living with them and other people, and he did not know his brother’s address or phone number.
Because of the inconsistencies in their stories, the parole agent isolated Garrido in an office with another parole agent and returned to the females.
The parole agent told Alyssa that she needed to provide him with identification or with the phone number of a relative or friend whom he could call for verification of her identity. Alyssa told the parole agent that she had learned a long time ago not to carry or give any personal information to anyone. When questioned about this comment, Alyssa responded that she needed a lawyer.
Comment: Her remark regarding not wanting to provide her identity was instinctive and true. It makes a lot of sense to her but to the parole officer, it sounded naïve. And when he challenged her about that remark, she requested for a lawyer. It forced the parole officer to request the Concord police to join in the questioning. They had that authority to demand for identification.
It was at this point that Concord police was brought in which introduced another dynamics to the situation.
Suspicious Identities Being suspicious about the identities provided, the parole agent called the Concord Police Department and requested an officer respond to assist in the questioning.
Alyssa Lied As they waited for the officer to arrive, Alyssa said she was sorry that she had lied. She explained that she was from Minnesota and had been hiding for five years from an abusive husband. She was terrified of being found, she said, and that was the reason she could not give the parole agent any information.
Two Concord police officers arrived and questioned Alyssa, but she maintained the story she had provided earlier to the parole agent.
Comment While waiting for the arrival of the police, she would have realised her mistake and went on to create a lie about being from Minnesota and hiding for five years from an abusive husband. Alyssa's personality was now capable of lying. When two Concord police officers arrived and questioned her, she maintained her story. This is a significant point in her behaviour. Typically, when a person maintain a lie, it would be to protect something. It could also be interpreted to be a fear response perhaps of retribution. Also she was defying the Concord police which for the average American, is the authority under the circumstances.
Did she fear another authority in another room that was then under interrogation as well? Was that authority more terrifying to her that the Concord police. This would have been the first time that she had encountered the Concord police and she had no experience with it. But there was another authority in a nearby room that she did had experience with. That brutal experience was seared into her subsconsciousness. That authority was constant with her day and night for the last 18 years.
Finally, a Concord police sergeant interviewed Garrido alone in a room. After a short while, the sergeant told the parole agent that Garrido had admitted that he was the father of the two girls. The parole agent then resumed questioning Garrido.
Eventually, Garrido admitted to kidnapping and raping Alyssa. The parole agent provided this information to the Concord police sergeant. During further questioning, Alyssa identified herself as Jaycee Dugard and confirmed that she had been kidnapped and raped by Garrido.
Comment When the authority she feared admitted to her rape and kidnapping, she finally felt released from her fear. The authority that instructed her never to reveal her identity.
Arrest Police officers subsequently arrested Phillip and Nancy Garrido on numerous felony charges. Garrido and his wife allegedly kidnapped Jaycee and held her hostage for almost two decades.
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Analysis and Comment: Overall, the report pointed to a few intriguing questions.
1. What inspired Alyssa to provide the information that she was the mother of the younger girls very early on in the questioning? Together with the information that was known then that Phillip Garrido had told the police officers at University of California, Berkeley that the girls were his daughters, the obvious answer then would be Phillip Garrido and Alyssa were the parents of the 2 girls.
2. Why did she try to reassure the parole agent by stating that she was aware of the 2 girls trip with Phil Garrido to University of California?As the parole agent continued his questioning, Alyssa and Garrido’s wife became defensive and agitated, wanting to know why the parole agent was interrogating them. Here we can interprete that both of them realise something was amiss. There was an emotional response from both of them.
3. Why did Alyssa try to reassure the parole agent by stating to the parole agent about Garrido's previous criminal conviction of rape of a woman he was a changed man and a great person who was good with her kids? She seemed intent to reassure the parole agent that she knew about his background. She then vouched for his character but stating that he was a great person who was good with her kids. Here she emphasised that she the 2 girls were hers. She also hinted of a relationship between her and Phillip Garrido with her comment about Phillip Garrido being great with her kids. 4. Why did Alyssa told the parole agent that she had learned a long time ago not to carry or give any personal information to anyone? What was behind her remark? And when challenged about that remarked, she responded that she needed a lawyer. When asked for her identity, she made that remark. It sounded instinctive and true. She quickly regretted that remark when she was challenged by the parole officer. She quickled clamped up and requested for a lawyer. We see Alyssa naivety in her remarked. When she was challenged about it, she immediately recognised her mistake and requested a lawyer. It sounded professional to her but her she showed her naivety under the circumstances.
5. Why did she stop cooperating after that and commented that she might need a lawyer. 6. Why did she create a lie about being from Minnesota and hiding from an abusive husband and she was terrified of being found. That was the reason she gave for not giving further information about her identity. And even with the arrival of the Concord police, she maintained that story? In here we see another part of Alyssa. One that is capable of lying. 7. Why did she identify herself only after confronted with Garrido's confession to kidnapping and raping her?
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Our narratives
In this section we explore the sexual dynamics between Alyssa and Nancy Garrido. We will try and understand Alyssa's state-of-mind at the parole office.
Our narratives start by examining the events of the previous 2 days. We then examine the sexual tension and resentment that Alyssa felt towards the older woman.
BACKGROUND Comfort Zone We believed that at this point of her life, Alyssa had reached her comfort zone. She was comfortable with herself and her life. She saw herself as the wife of Phillip Garrido.
After 18 years with Phillip Garrido, Alyssa saw herself as the wife of Phillip Garrido. Phillip Garrido slept with her on most nights except on those days when she had her menstrual period.
Relationship By now, she was not a victim any longer.
She felt strongly about her relationship with Phillip Garrido. Sex with him was a nightly affair and often during the day as well. He had a voracious sexual appetite and Alyssa had developed a sexual addiction to her man. Sex was consensual. She was emotionally and sexually bonded to her man.
He had told her his relationship with her was all that he ever needed and she had believed him. That was what she understood her relationship with Phillip Garrido to be. She was committed to him mentally and physically.
The 2 girls were part of that relationship. They were part of the emotional bond. They had both their DNAs. Not Nancy.
Sleeping Arrangements On those nights that Alyssa had her menstrual period, Phillip Garrido slept in the house with Nancy Garrido. The 2 girls could have slept with Alyssa in the garden on those nights.
Other than that, Alyssa slept Phillip Garrido for most nights and the 2 girls slept in the house. They only moved into the backyard garden during the day.

1. 23 July - 23 August 2009 - Alyssa slept with Phillip Garrido nightly in one of the shed, most likely the air-conditioned shed. He had disabled his GPS tracking device by wrapping aluminium foil around it. She was in awe of his devilish ingenuity. It added excitement to their relationship. The excitement of defeating his parole agents. It was an excitement they shared together. A mutual disdain and contempt at the way he had out-smarted them all these years. As the years passes, she acquired his attitude.
Alyssa menstrual cycle started on the 23/24 August 2009. This information was arrived at from analysing the GPS data and discussed here.
2. 24 - 25 August 2009 - Alyssa menstrual period had just started. Phillip Garrido took the 2 girls Angel and Starlit to the University of California, Berkeley.
Those 2 nights, he slept in the house with Nancy Garrido. Alyssa worked in the backyard garden during the day and spent those 2 nights on her own in the backyard garden.
3. 26 August 2009 - Alyssa joined Phillip Garrido, Nancy and the two girls on the trip to the parole office. Resentment boiled inside Alyssa at Nancy Garrido. She had spent the previous 2 days and nights on her own. and resented the idea of Phillip Garrido lavishing sexual favours on the older woman the previous 2 nights.
4. Above all, she resented the fact that the 2 younger girls called Nancy "mommy". She knew she was their real mommy.
We believed that Alyssa slept with Phil Garrido from the 23 July - 23 Aug 2009. They spent those 32 nights in one of the shed because of the high summer temperature in Antioch. This could likely be the air-conditioned shed. Temperatures can ranged up to 91 deg Fahrenheit during the day.
On Monday 24 Aug and Tuesday 25 Aug, she did not had sex with Phillip Garrido. She was having her menstrual period.
She spent those 2 nights on her own in the backyard garden. She also saw very little of Phillip Garrido and the 2 girls during the day as he had taken them to the University of California, Berkeley.
On Tues August 25 evening, trouble started when the parole agents turned up at the house. They searched the house for the 2 girls. When the agents turned up at the house, the 2 girls scooted to the back garden. Alyssa and them had been trained to do that.
The sexual jealousy in Alyssa was intense when she left with the 2 girls and Nancy and Phillip Garrido to the parole office.
On the Wednesday, 26 Aug, the 2 wives and the 2 girls were on the parole office. During the interrogation, that sexual rivalry bubbled to the surface when she made immediate claim to the 2 girls. Could she have done that for fear that Nancy Garrido would claim the 2 girls as her daughters? The 2 girls would definitely have identified Nancy as their mother and Alyssa as their older sister.
Menstrual Period We believe that she was having her menstrual period on that Wednesday morning. It would have been the third day of her period and the third day she had not slept with Phillip Garridos. The last time she slept with him was on the 23rd August. Instead Phillip Garrido had slept with Nancy the previous 2 nights. She had missed out on 2 nights of sex with Phillip Garrido.
Sexual Jealousy Prior to the previous 2 nights, she and Phillip Garrido had been having sex in one of the shed to escape the July-August summer heat. They had spent the past 32 nights in the shed to escape the summer heat. That night, a searing jealousy burned within her. The thought of Nancy and Phillip Garrido in bed together. She can only imagine what they were doing. The thought drove her wild. And then she had to look after the 2 girls that night in her tent. She had a bad night of sleep. Her menstrual period just made it worse. [Note: Antioch is hot and sweltering during the July-August period. Temperature can ranged up to 91 deg Fahrenheit or 32 deg Celsius].
Inadvertently, the parole officer had triggered off a sexual rivalry within Alyssa when he questioned her together with Nancy Garrido and the 2 younger girls. Such was her mood that Wednesday morning.
Angel and Starlit The 2 younger girls was the common bond that Alyssa shared with Phillip Garrido. It was their family. During the day, she had to play the part of the 'older' sister to them. That morning, things was going to change. It was a point she had to prove in front of Nancy Garrido.
And when the parole agent started questioning their identity, she offered her name and the information that she was the mother of the 2 girls. It was a piece of information that she provided freely. She made immediate claim in front of Nancy to the 2 kids. She asserted her relationship with Phil Garrido in front of Nancy. A seething emotion that was both raw and powerful. The claim to that special relationship was through her claim as the mother of those 2 girls. That answered our first question.
Protecting her relationship The report mentioned that Alyssa and Nancy were defensive and agitated with the questioning. Here we see that Alyssa was capable of an emotional response during further question. The questioning was beginning to touch on her perceived relationship with Phillip Garrido. It is a relationship that she felt strongly about.
When the parole agent explained himself, Alyssa responded that she was aware of the trip. She even offered the piece of information regarding Garrido's parole for kidnapping and rape of a woman. She then went on to vouch for Phillip Garrido's character with her remark about him being a changed man and someone that was great with her kids. Again she placed great emphasis on her relationship with Garrido and the 2 girls.
The answers to our second, third and fourth questions was about protecting her relationship with Phillip Garrido. It was a relationship she felt strongly about that it triggered off a strong emotional response from her with the parole agent. All he told her was that he was investigation Phil Garrido's trip to the University of California, Berkeley. But that was enough to triggered her off. Such was her state of mind that morning.
In our question 5, we believe Alyssa made a instinctive response. When she was asked for her identity, she made an instinctive response. It was what she had been told years earlier when she assumed the Alyssa identity. She was to never to give her true identity to anyone. The retribution would be absolute terror. She remembered the brutality that she was subjected to then. When she was challenged by the parole officer about that response, she knew that she had made a mistake. In her naivety, she had gave an instinctive reply. Alyssa whose interaction with the outside was limited was showing her naivety. And then she clamped up when she realised she had spoken too much.

In the parole office, she was there to protect that relationship. She did not want to be discovered.
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Human Drama : The Story of Alyssa
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| Posted by Ballie on 2009/11/22 16:20:00 (564 reads) |
Birth Certificate: Jaycee Lee Dugard Birth Date: May 3, 1980 (Age 29) Birth place: Garden Grove, California Home town: South Lake Tahoe, California Children: Angel (1994) and Starlit (November, 1998) Mother: Terry Probyn Family members: Carl Probyn (Stepfather 1999), Tina Dugard (Aunt) Half-sister: Shayna Probyn, 1990
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In this section, we built our narratives about the development Jaycee Dugard from the time she was incarcerated in the backyard garden. The OIC report stated that she spent the first year and half of her captivity in the sound-proofed shed. We then leap-frog to the recent present till her recovery. Our narratives will try and capture her state of mind then.
Length of Captivity At the time of her recovery, she had been with the Garridos for 18 years. In order to put some perspective on her captivity, she was kidnapped when George H W Bush was still the President of the United States in 1991. Bill Clinton became the 42nd US president in January 1992 and served two terms. By the end of the Clinton presidency in 2000, she was aged 20 with 2 children fathered by her kidnapper, Phillip Garrido. She lived through another two terms of the George W Bush presidency from 2001 till 2008 and was only recovered on August 26 2009 during the Obama presidency. Her captivity had spanned four presidencies.
From a young girl to womanhood At the age of 11, she would have been going through a developmental phase. Under normal circumstance, from ages 11 through 14, she would have developed physically, cognitively, emotionally/social and physiologically. She would have gone through a phase of clumsiness and her brain would have adjusted to her longer limbs and bigger body.
By the mid-teens, the brain's reward centre, the parts involved in emotional arousal, should have been well-developed making her more vulnerable to peer pressure. Did it happen for Alyssa? It would not be till the early 20s that her brain's frontal cortex, where reasoning connects with emotion, enabling her to weigh consequences, had finished forming. But unfortunately for Jaycee, these development did not take place to their full potential and if they did, it was skewed due to the trauma and stress of the captivity.
At an age when children from her age group would be participating in school activities such as plays, music lessons, sports activities and going off on school trips and tramping, Jaycee was held in the backyard compound of her captors. These are activities that shape the physical and mental well-being of children as they grow into young adults. These are the activities that shape personalities and social attitudes besides the social interaction at school and at home. These are formative years in a young adult. Instead, during those early years of captivity, her personality was formed by her interaction with her captors. Sex was the main interaction with her captors and Phillip Garrido made sure he had plenty. They had all the time in the world to play with her mind and her body.
From recent news report, we know that she was subjected to brain washing.
The 29 year old woman that identified herself as Jaycee Dugard at the parole office had an emotional age of 11. During her 18 years in captivity, she was most unlikely to have handled money or learn to drive or do the most ordinary things that most young women of her age group would have done. The basic pleasure of having one's own freedom to interact with society at large. Most of all she missed out on an education which would have taken her to college. Such was her isolation from society. During her captivity, she had been conditioned to accept her situation and she had built her world around it. The whole world was that backyard compound, the 2 younger girls and the Garridos. And of course, her interaction with the outside world was customers through her job as the graphic designer for the printing business, Print for Less and in the later years, as a prostitute. Also in the later years, she did venture out more accompanied by Phillip Garrido and the 2 younger girls to Savemart, shops, movies and the library. They had also been to the beach during the summer of 2009.
Was she taken to a hairdresser for her hair to be done? From the photos in People and Hello magazine since her recovery, it did look like she had a professional hairdresser. Phillip Garrido would have make sure that she lived out his sexual fantasy of a temptress with longer than shoulder-lengthed curvy hair. She was God's Desire and had to look the part. He was God in that backyard compound.
In that backyard compound, she did not own her body. She had limited knowledge of the outside world and towards the latter part of the captivity, she did have access to emails and Internet. The only relationship she was allowed to form was with her captors. Even her children knew her as their older sister.
Something that was striking was the children were very conscious of her age. During the visit to the University of California, Starlit brought it up about her older sister. It must have been something that Alyssa must have discussed with the 2 younger girls frequently.
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Rape and Slavery From the time of her captivity, she was repetitively raped. At the end of the first year of captivity, she was given a new identity, Alyssa. She was adopted by Phillip Garrido as his wife. In the solitary confinement in that sound-proofed shed, through physical deprivation, verbal and physical abuse and repeated rapes, she was conditioned to submit herself to the will of her captors. Then, was she permitted some freedom in the backyard garden. At the age of 12 when her school friends were in their 6th grade, Alyssa started her new life as a sex slave.
The later years - 2004 onwards? 18 years is a long time. That's the length of her captivity. From the photo of the bookshelf in her tent at the back of the garden, and the titles of the books, we concluded that the romance books were read by Alyssa and the psycho-horror and psycho-terror, science fiction books were read by Phillip Garrido.
It was a constant theme of love between an alluring beauty and a strong willed man. A romance fantasy. She was the Plain Jane with the hidden beauty, an alluring beauty. And her man, Phillip Garrido was that devastating blue-eyed man. He was a man that knew what he wanted and he wasn't leaving until he got it. Ruggedly handsome, charming, and undeniably charismatic, he was the kind of man that she found irresistible...the kind of man she was certain would never look twice at a woman as ordinary as her.
The beauty of their friendship allowed them to discuss everything, just as best friends would. All of that would change when they stood like statues staring down at the king-size mattress.
From dusk until dawn the two experienced passion, seduction, and deep revelation where the past did not matter and the future was the next orgasm. It was an idyllic existence living in a permanent oxytocin haze of sensual pleasure and orgasmic copulation.
In Do With Me What You Will, Alyssa fills the role of Elena. It is a love story that concentrates upon the tension between two American 'pathways' : the way of tradition, or Law; and the way of spontaneous emotion-in this case, Love. In the synthesis of these two apparently contradictory forces lies the inevitable transformation of our culture.
"Romantic love is one of our Western religions and must be respected as such; it must be acknowledged as the violent, unstoppable, rather beautiful force it is. But the West is also a culture of Law : American society will never be transformed by stray acts of violence in the streets-it will be transformed only through the courts. And they, in turn, will not be transformed until the men who run them are changed, individual by individual. Ours is still a time of romantic love; the time of a more communal, transcendental love is not yet come. DO WITH ME WHAT YOU WILL suggests such a transformation.
"If what is available to an individual is romantic love, then it must be-it will be-this kind of love that liberates." In the "freeing" from the enchantment of her "self," Elena lives a drama in which, by a continual process, she is raised to a higher aspect of her own being through involvement with a man-a drama of marriage and adultery that constructs an hour-by-hour, thought-by-thought experience both shattering and redemptive."
Another critic Rose Marie Burwell states: "Certain that the law will not save her, that the very concepts of innocence and guilt depend on the human propensities of those who define and dispense justice, Elena recognizes the truth that "Necessity Makes Law." Assuming moral self-responsibility in the final chapter, Elena Howe enters an unspoken plea of nolo contendre, the vulgate of which is the title of the novel, Do With Me What You Will ( 1973 ). The plea, in English common law and in most states, requires the court to proceed on an assumption of the defendant's innocence--even though he refuses to defend himself. Here the reader is the court and Elena Howe is both Everyman and many women. The dilemma she has been chosen to exemplify, the struggle to create and retain a tenable sense of self, is a universal one in which every individual who achieves emotional and moral maturity participates. For Elena a belated and violent sexual awakening sounds a warning signal, forcing upon her the realization that she must synthesize her personality or accede to her own disintegration. Elena's resistance and the Jungian stages of her individuation provide the narrative structure of novel. "
Bonding - Stockholm Syndrome Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response in which kidnap victims begin to show sympathy for their abductors. It was named after a robbery in Sweden in which hostages became emotionally attached to their captors. This term often is used as an explanation for why people who are exposed to intermittent kindness by their captor, kindness that is experienced within the context of a life and death situation, became emotionally dependent on their captor. It is a situation in which the captive(s) who are intimidated, controlled, or made to suffer, begin to love, admire, and even sexually desire their controllers or captors.
Post captivity, Jaycee Dugard exhibited extreme Stockholm Syndrome. That could be due to the early age of her captivity and also the duration of that captivity which was 18 years. There could be 3 distinct phase in her bonding with her captors.
In the earlier years, she would have bonded purely for survival and the hope that her physical, verbal and mental abuse would lessened. She looked for compassion from her tormentors. Those were the early years of captivity when she had to endure the abuse, humiliation and the brutality of her repeated rapes. It was a survival reflex that is part of our human instinct.
The subsequent years of her bonding with her captors would be when she was pregnant with her first child. She gave birth to Angel at age 14 (1994). Four years (1998) later at age 18, she gave birth to Starlit. Face with having a child of her rapist, she reconciled the conflict within herself that her rapist was also the father of her child. The psychological term for this is called cognitive dissonance. It is a survival skill where she denied and suppressed the conflicting thoughts of her rapist and instead focused on him being the father of her children and raising them together as family with her rapist/captors. The cognitive dissonance suppressed the negative thoughts and focused on the well-being of her immediate family.
During pregnancy, Alyssa would be experiencing extreme emotional highs and lows due to hormonal changes in her body. The internal conflict she would have experienced in being pregnant with the baby of her rapist. That would be the ultimate in psychological degradation.
Perhaps some time in 2004, she bonded with her captors at the sexual level. She was 24 years old and the 2 girls were 6 and 10 years old. Before, she just went along with the sexual intercourse with Phillip Garrido. He managed to connect with Alyssa sexually. Her mental and psychological conditioning was completed.
In Phillip Garrido's writing "Origin of Schizophrenia Revealed", there was this passage
"Finally one day when we were having intercourse and I ejaculated and in great anger I never needed to act or do the things I used to do believe was so great and stimulating. At the same moment I began explaining how my relationship with her was all I ever needed and at that moment I knew and felt what must be the greatest freedom of them all because I was able to see myself as wanting those things only! I began to weep telling her "I am so sorry for the things I did in the past" at that time a feeling of remorse came over me, one that I never (k)new or felt before or even dreamed was possible"
Several things could be deduced from the passage. The wife he was having intercourse would be his young wife as he made reference to his remorse for his past wrongdoings. We can imagine this scene with him and her crying and Alyssa consoling him. She forgave him for whatever he had done to her as it is the Christian thing to do.
This moment after his ejaculation became a religious experience for both. For him to be remorseful and seek forgiveness and for her, a sense of power to grant that forgiveness and the uplifting experience that goes with it. The powerful emotional experience of orgasm, the Hieros Gamos moment, the warmth after sex glow which bonded their emotions. And they copulated further to seal the new bond.
Oxytocin was the hormone the gave that wonderful feeling during orgasm. It is called the love hormone for that reason. In the incident described above by Phillip Garrido, oxytocin was the hormone that bonded them together during their sexual orgasm.
At this stage of her life, she saw herself as part of his family. They were raising their children together as a family. His struggle became her struggle as well. She was no more a victim but part of him. It was her full commitment to him, her body and her soul.
Feedback Loop - Sex Addiction Sex Addiction is an umbrella term which is also known as Intimacy Disorder.
Sex addiction in women is very much like sex addiction in men. there are some different presentation. one of the misconception about this term sex addiction that skewed our thinking about it is that we like to separate sex addict versus love or relationship addict but ultimately the dynamics are all the same. the best way to conceptualised it is that sex addiction is an umbrella term. there will be different flavours love or relationship addicts ie. going from man to man to man or partner to partner to partner. sure woman do that but woman also uses visual pornography, masturbation to anonymous kind of sex. all of these are part of sex addiction. the label is so awful especially for women that we react against it. we kind of like a softer term. it is the wrong term to start with. it isn't about sex. it is about things that are much deeper. the proper term should be intimacy disorder. but sex addiction is the one that we are stuck with. women frequently are romance addict .
sex addiction isn't about sex at all. our sexual behaviour is just the tip of the iceberg. the top of the iceberg that covers a whole host of problems underneath. for many of us, those problems include abuse. many many people who struggles with sex addiction are untreated sexual trauma survivors. we know that in our culture today, at least 1 out of 3 females, 1 out of 5 males, are going to be sexually abused by the time she or he reaches 18 years old. An epidemic is everywhere and another topic especially one within the church that we are not talking about. so many many people struggles with the aftereffects of sexual abuse earlier in their history, in their childhood. and why does that make such a difference? because like nothing else sexual abuse confuses that line between sex and love, between sex and violence, between sex and fear, between sex and survival . sometimes have to be sexual with this person this parent because this is the one that is taking care of me and my survival depends on remaining in relationship with this person. it is enormously confusing.
Road Ahead - What the Psychologists Are Saying As we begin to learn more about the way Jaycee Dugard and her children lived -- in a series of ramshackle tents and sheds amid squalor -- one can only imagine how Dugard will be able to re-integrate back into society.
"It's been suggested that there's been signs of Stockholm Syndrome, that she may be feeling loyalty, perhaps even guilt and that makes it all the more difficult. It also means it's going to require very serious therapy [and] intervention," said psychologist John Lutzker, Ph.D., director for the Center for Healthy Development at Georgia State University. "In addition to therapy, simply spending a lot of time with her family would be useful to help this process move along."
Ernie Allen, the president and CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said on "Good Morning America" today that it isn't surprising that Dugard was reportedly working for Garrido and had access to a computer and telephone during her captivity.
"I think if ever there's an example [of Stockholm Syndrome]…this is it," said Allen, whose organization helped find a psychologist to work with Dugard and her family. "This child was abducted when she was 11. She was terrorized, she was abused. The mind can only take so much anger, rage and fear, and small kindnesses cause these victims to identify with their captors."
"This happens with adults," he added. "First and foremost, what Jaycee did was figure out how to survive."
Mental health experts have few examples to guide them in dealing with extreme kidnapping cases such as this one.
He said it's also important for Dugard to play a role in her daughters' healing.
"Their captor who had limited their access to the world… but this was dad," he said. "It's important again to reinforce with them that they've done nothing wrong. Jaycee will play a key role in this. It's going to take patience and time to help these children catch up."
Dugard's step-father told "GMA" Monday that she was experiencing feelings of guilt. Allen said that's not unusual for kidnapping victims.
"It is a slow, patient process, but first you reintroduce Jaycee to her parents," he said. "You emphasize the importance of unconditional love."
"I'm sure there's so many emotions complicated by the fact she has two young daughters," Craig Akers said. "I'm sure that she's confused and uncertain, probably wondering if people are going to blame her."
"We have to make sure they love her no matter what," he added. "She has to know what happened wasn't her fault. You have to make sure she has no thoughts like that at all...she's not responsible for any of it."
"We're very grateful we have this opp to send a message of hope to families that have children out there," Craig Akers said. "There are more people like this…some perhaps in a situation like Jaycee.. We want to get our message out there that it's ok...your family loves you no matter what."
Sources Former hostage says daughters not harmed - Dugard told police Phillip Garrido had not touched her in years For Long Term Captives, A Complex Road Home - NY Times
Long Road Back After Kidnapping - ABC News
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Human Drama : Phillip Garrido - In his own words
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| Posted by Ballie on 2009/11/21 16:00:00 (438 reads) |
Contra Costa Times
In our narratives here, we will build a profile of Phillip Garrido through various media reports.
Imprisonment At the time of the abduction in June 1991, Phillip Garrido was on federal parole for the kidnapping and rape of Katherine Galloway.
He was convicted of kidnapping in U.S. District Court in Nevada and was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison in March 1977, said Brad Murray, a correctional systems officer at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan.
He was sent to Leavenworth where he stayed until he was transferred to Lompoc in 1986, Murray said. He was paroled from Lompoc in January 1988, but was placed in a halfway house in San Francisco from August to December 1988 because of a minor parole violation, according to Murray.
Garrido was not in federal custody at the time of Dugard’s abduction, but was arrested again in April 1993 because of another parole violation, Murray said.
After a month, Garrido was transferred to home supervision and was released from supervision in August 1993, Murray said.
Contra Costa County sheriff’s spokesman Jimmy Lee said Garrido has been registered with the sheriff’s office as a sex offender since 1999.
Garrido committed his first known sex crime in 1976 and was arrested at the scene.
He started his federal prison sentence on June 30, 1977 and was turned over to Nevada authorities on Jan. 22, 1988 to serve state time.
Employment History and Sources of Income Initially from 1989 till 1995, Nancy Garrido appeared to be the main source of income as she worked as a nurse aide in Contra Costa County. During that period, Janice Gomez reported that he was soliciting business for Print for Less which was his own family business. Nancy Garrido resigned in 1995 ostensibly to look after his mother, Pat Garrido. Also noted that Alyssa gave birth to Angel in August 1994 at age 14.
Then it was reported that he was working at a recycling plant in 1998 at the time of the murder of 3 prostitutes in Pittsburg, California. Most likely, he was working at the Christenson Recycling Centre. His employer was most likely Maria Christenson. (Sometime around August 2008, Phillip and Nancy Garrido turned up Maria Christenson's office to borrow $2000.)
It can be concluded that the printing business was a struggling business then which could be a reason for him to return back to seek employment with a steady income. Perhaps he kept the business going while he was working at the recycling centre.
In November 1997, Alyssa gave birth to Starlit and the first report of Alyssa working in the printing business was about year 2000.
The going back and forth between the printing business and working for others would indicated that the printing business was not bringing enough income to support the family then or that Phillip Garrido was spending too much money on his own drug habits and perhaps visiting prostitutes.
Prostitution It had been reported that he was close to Jim Molino of JM Enterprise located at 1215 Willow Pass Road, Pittsburg, CA 94565-1805. From what Mike Rogers saw from his side of fence across from the dilapidated shed, those mean-looking Hispanics partying in that backyard compound could have been workers from JM Enterprise or transients sourced through JM Enterprise. That wreckage yard could have been a front for soliciting customers as he pimped out Alyssa in that backyard garden. Alyssa was his slave. She worked his graphics designer, mother/sister to his 2 daughters and as a prostitute, she brought in another income source to supplement that from the printing business. She was truly the girl Friday marooned in that backyard compound.
In Riley in the Morning, Alyssa transported herself into the role of Brin Cassidy, the sensuous and strong-willed beauty and wife of Jon Riley. Temperamental, charismatic, and devastatingly blue-eyed, Riley was a man who knew what he wanted, and he wasn't leaving until he got it. But the sensuous and strong-willed beauty he still called his wife was every bit his match. From dusk until dawn the two will experience a second honeymoon of passion, seduction, and deep revelation that will determine if there is any future for Riley in the morning.
In The Rana Look, Alyssa became supermodel Rana Ramsey the exotic, one-of-a-kind allure supermodel. Ruggedly handsome, charming, and undeniably charismatic, Trent is the kind of man that Alyssa finds irresistible...the kind of man she is certain would never look twice at a woman as ordinary as the new Alyssa. Trent seems unfazed by her Plain Jane look. For he is drawn to a beauty that Alyssa can't hide. He is determined to learn the mystery behind the elusive, reclusive boarder with the secret past. Then an unexpected tragedy strikes, and the stakes seem higher than ever. Now they must look deep into each other's heart to determine if their relationship is just an impossibly erotic dream--or a dream of love come true.
In the A Whole New Light Alyssa is Cynthia a widow who took on a lover Worth Lansing. The two close friends took a short vacation together. Worth always knew what to say and Alyssa could always open up to him. They were each other's rock and Worth would always be there for his best friend's widow.
Worth was a lady's man; he had many women around but never found one that fit his lifestyle. Alyssa teased Worth about his wild ways and Worth let Alyssa know that her ways weren't as perfect. If they were, she would be happy. The beauty of their friendship allowed them to discuss everything, just as best friends would. All of that would change in Acapulco as they entered their suite. "...Worth and Alyssa stood like statues in the middle of the room, staring down at the bed-the one king-size bed."
Worth and Alyssa returned home, never to be the same. Never to have the same relationship they had when they left for their weekend of fun and relaxation.
In Do With Me What You Will, Alyssa fills the role of Elena. It is a love story that concentrates upon the tension between two American 'pathways' : the way of tradition, or Law; and the way of spontaneous emotion-in this case, Love. In the synthesis of these two apparently contradictory forces lies the inevitable transformation of our culture.
"Romantic love is one of our Western religions and must be respected as such; it must be acknowledged as the violent, unstoppable, rather beautiful force it is. But the West is also a culture of Law : American society will never be transformed by stray acts of violence in the streets-it will be transformed only through the courts. And they, in turn, will not be transformed until the men who run them are changed, individual by individual. Ours is still a time of romantic love; the time of a more communal, transcendental love is not yet come. DO WITH ME WHAT YOU WILL suggests such a transformation.
"If what is available to an individual is romantic love, then it must be-it will be-this kind of love that liberates." In the "freeing" from the enchantment of her "self," Elena lives a drama in which, by a continual process, she is raised to a higher aspect of her own being through involvement with a man-a drama of marriage and adultery that constructs an hour-by-hour, thought-by-thought experience both shattering and redemptive."
Phillip Garrido: In his own word
In one of the document or religious paraphernalia from Phillip Garrido, there was a reference by him to his family and his wife.
"Because of my background I began to examine how certain issues cause a great deal of pain in myself and those who are victimised by those behaviors especially especially our family and my wife......" Note the reference to his wife and we start to wonder whether it was Jaycee or Nancy he was referring to. He then goes on further down in the document as follows.
"When I had intercourse with her the feelings were so powerful and exciting that every time we had intercourse now it is as though I had just met her, .......... "
And further down he continued to describe about having sex with his 'wife'.
"Finally one day when we were having intercourse and I ejaculated and in great anger I never needed to act or do the things I used to do believe was so great and stimulating. At the same moment I began explaining how my relationship with her was all I ever needed and at that moment I knew and felt what must be the greatest freedom of them all because I was able to see myself as wanting those things only! I began to weep telling her "I am so sorry for the things I did in the past" at that time a feeling of remorse came over me, one that I never new (mispelling) or felt before or even dreamed was possible"
The reference to the remorse about what he had done to his wife in the past would indicate the 'wife' to be Jaycee.
"The fact is now I find no longer wanting to separate myself from her after sexual intercourse, instead I kept telling her how much I truly love her, because now I find it desirable to hold her calling into play the same feelings I had just before sexual interaction, ......"
A comment about the document itself is that I think the document was dictated by him but written by someone else. Could it be either Nancy or Jaycee that wrote it? It is noted that when he was incarcerated, he wrote a note demanding a lawyer for Jaycee Dugard which was full of grammatical and spelling mistakes. Hence my doubt whether this document could have been written by him.
A recent report mentioned that Terry Probyn will be writing a book about the years spent searching for Jaycee. The same news item mentioned that Jaycee could be writing a book about her years in captivity.
From photos taken of the tents in the backyard, it appeared that she reads quite a bit. Hence my guess is that the document could have been written or proof read by her. This could be part of the complex emotional attachment to him as his 'wife' with her forgiveness of him for the wrongs he did to her and thus cement their close relationship as husband and 'wife'.
Phillip C Garrido
View Details 52 Antioch, CA Nancy D Garrido Patricia L Garrido
========================================= . GARRIDO, PHILLIP C (Age 52) Available ANTIOCH, CA Possible Relatives:
GARRIDO, NANCY D (Age 55) FRANZEN, PATRICIA LUCILLE (Age 88) View Details 3. GARRIDO, PHILLIP C (Age 52)
Possible Employment / Business Associations:
GODS DESIRE THE PHILLIP C KNIGHT INSTITUTE Elementary and Secondary Schools <--------- Is this the name of the Home School??????????????? GODS DESIRE Available ANTIOCH, CA Possible Relatives: FRANZEN, PATRICIA LUCILLE (Age 88) <---------------------- this is his mother GARRIDO, NANCY D (Age 55)
Possible Roommates / Associates: FRANZEN, HERSCHEL J <--------------------- this is his stepfather (now deceased i believe) WADE, VIRGINIA (Age 66) <-------------------- wonder who this person is ???????????????????? FRANZEN, HERSCHEL J (Age 39)
WEB PRESENCE; godsdesire@rocketmail.com phillipcknight@yahoo.com www.godsdesire.com http://www.blogger.com/profile/00940447268727590947
Snipped from http://www.helpfindthemissing.org/forum/showthread.php?t=16357
A Master Manipulator PLACERVILLE, Calif. -- In light of a new letter from kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido, the El Dorado County district attorney described the convicted rapist as a "master manipulator."
Garrido issued an apology "for what has taken place" and referenced "ending a sexual problem believed to be impossible" in his third jailhouse letter to KCRA 3.
"We see this as just another example of his attempt to control the situation around him and his prior victims -- he is a master manipulator," District Attorney Vern Pierson said in a statement.
Garrido is accused of kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard nearly two decades ago and holding her in a backyard compound at his Contra Costa County home. He's also believed to have fathered two children with her.
His letter, which KCRA 3 received Thursday, read in part, "First off I would like to apologize to every human being for what has taken place."
It continued, "People all over the world are hearing testimony that through the spirit of Christ a mental process took place ending a sexual problem believed to be impossible."
"Mr. Garrido is expressing genuine remorse. He would like people to consider the fact that he's a changed man and his story is best told all at one time, instead of in pieces. He presents obvious issues concerning whether or not he is competent to be a defendant, and we are looking into that," said his attorney, Public Defender Susan Gellman, in a telephone interview Thursday evening from St. Petersburg, Fla.
Pierson fired back, saying "these recent statements are eerily similar to what Mr. Garrido told the judge who sentenced him in 1977 and to the parole board when he duped them into releasing him from prison after serving only 11 years of a 50 year federal sentence and five-to-life Nevada State sentence."
KCRA3 news Sources - DA: Garrido Is 'Master Manipulator'
Sources Berkeley Daily Planet
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Human Drama : Our Narrative - From Rape Victim, Sex Slavery ('Wife') to Sex Goddess
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| Posted by Ballie on 2009/11/21 15:30:00 (706 reads) |
TruTV has a good write-up about the overall story. We provide a narrative from a different perspective.
The narratives are about Jaycee Dugard and her time in captivity. We have used her identity of Alyssa in our narratives as that was her identity then.
We have left out the word 'allegedly' to describe the kidnapping and her kidnappers. Please feel free to insert it yourself where you think it is appropriate.
We trust that some day, those psychiatrists and psychologists that worked closely in this case will write about their experiences and what they have learnt from it. This case will surely be a case studies in academia. Jaycee Dugard's mental state will surely change as she interacts with the public.
Sources of Information and Analysis Our narratives are built up based on the photos that had been published, the GPS data, Phillip Garrido's religious writings, past victims, statement given to the media by neighbours, family members after the recovery of Jaycee Dugard and the books that were found in her tent.
When we started our narratives, the storyline line was that of a sad and tragic story of a young girl who was kidnapped. A young life ruined and the whole family traumatised. As we developed our narratives and analysed the few years before her recovery, it became clear that we have a human drama unfolding.
Relationship As we analysed the statements that have been released into the public domain and in the media, we realized that this is an ongoing story that will be played out in public. There is always a possibility that Jaycee Dugard may in the future re-establish contact with Phillip Garrido. After all, they were family with 2 children and were sex partners for that many years in that backyard compound. Their relationship between a master and slave had deepened as the years progressed and was likely to be lovers. The forbidden love between a kidnapped girl who had grown into an adult woman and her male kidnapper.
Life Imitating Art The story became that of a kidnapped girl that had been repeatedly raped in the earlier years. She grew into an adult woman in that backyard compound. Somewhere along the years, she developed emotional and sexual desires for her captor/rapist. It was life imitating art. The human drama as society tries to understand the psychology of a captive girl that survived her captivity by providing sex for love and her male kidnapper provided love for sex.
Here we have an adult woman just recovered from the backyard compound after 18 years of captivity, stating to the world that her relationship with her male rapist was “almost like a marriage”. We are told that she has strong feelings for her rapist.
Her Reality But on further analysis of that statement, it was a truthful statement of her reality in that compound. She had been kidnapped, raped and forced to be his 'wife' from very early on and she had been conditioned to accept that reality. Essays by Joyce Carol Oates found in the tent would had been used to condition her to that reality.
The fact that she had developed strong feelings for Phillip Garrido can be understood when one realized that she had been his sex slave for that many years. She had grown from a young girl into an adult woman with emotional and sexual needs. He had shaped her personality at that impressional age. He was a sexual athlete and the little girl had grown and adapted to his voracious sexual appetite. That was the single dimensional world that she grew up in that backyard compound and her normality for that many years.
Perspective In order to understand that, we can only conclude that over the years, her perspective of Phillip Garrido had changed from rapist to husband, sex partner, lover, pimp and protector. He was now a changed man and good with her kids. That was the powerful heart-warming story that Jaycee Dugard was supposed to tell the world.
Communications using the media? On October 14, the first photo of Jaycee Dugard appeared in People magazine. The necklace she was wearing was obscured by the phrase “I ‘m so happy to be back”.
On October 20, another photo of Jaycee Dugard on horseback with her mother Terry Probyn appeared in Hello magazine. Was she wearing a crucifix or a love Ankh? Was she sending a love message to Phillip Garrido?
Church of God's Desire There are reasons to believe that the Church of God's Desire was setup mainly for financial gain and Alyssa became the centre of that worship. In that backyard compound, Dan Brown's god and the divine feminine took form in God's Desire. Phillip Garrido was god in that backyard compound and his sex slave, Alyssa was God's Desire. It was an evolving concept based around the characters in the novels of Dean Koontz, Bast the Egyptian Sex Goddess and wrapped around some form of Christian worship. Her childhood love for cats had been nurtured into sexual identity which was Bast, the Sex Goddess.
Oblique Statements, Double Entendre and Innuendos Many people have dealt with Phillip Garrido and comparing his statements and what we know now, we conclude he has a duplicitous character. This had been confirmed by his first wife Christine Murphy who was interviewed on InsideEdition. She did say that he was a good manipulator.
His statements of events have to be taken as something had happened but not what had been insinuated or implied. In 1994, it was reported that while out soliciting for business, he made a statement to Janice Gomes that his wife had given birth. We know now that the wife he referred to was Alyssa, his newly adopted 'wife' that he had raped. The other instances are in his own writings about having sex with his wife and feeling remorseful after ejaculation. That wife would most certainly be Alyssa.
Captivity Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped in June 10 1991 at about 8 am on the way to the bus stop near her home. She was taken to the home of her kidnappers and for the first year of her captivity, she was kept in a sound proof shed in the backyard compound. She was repeatedly raped and abused by Phillip and Nancy Garrido. She was subjected to their sexual depravity and those experiences were seared into her consciousness. She feared this human beast and over the years remembered what he was capable of. She endured his depravity and learned to adapt to his needs to survive. It was always in her sub-consciousness throughout her 18 years of captivity.
Sexual Gratification The kidnapping was all about the sexual gratification of Phillip Garrido. Throughout the 18 years, everything he did was focused on meeting that sexual gratification.
Birth Jaycee Dugard was probably pre-puberty when she was kidnapped. She transitioned from pre-puberty girl into a young mother by age 14. According toe the recent report, Angel was born in August 1994 and Starlit (Scarlett?) in November 1997. Alyssa was aged 14 when she had Angel and 17 when she gave birth to Starlit (Scarlett?). When she was finally allowed out of the sound-proof shed, she had a new identity. Alyssa was to be her new identity and she was never to give her old identity to anyone. She understood what the retribution could be. She had endured the physical abuse and the sexual depravity before.
Psychological Conditioning and Emotional Manipulation In the early days of her captivity, the 11 year old child would be living in a world of fear, terror and disbelief. Fear of being away from her family, terror of her new environment and her captors and disbelief at her situation. These are the early days where she would have been most traumatic for her. To calm the child, it is likely they told her they loved her. Yet as the days passed, they raped her. She was have been subjected to physical, verbal and psychological abuse. She learned and adapted to their demands to lessen the abuse. She underwent psychological degradation and became dependent on her captors for her emotional and psychological well-being.
Our narratives are focused on the period from April 2008 till August 26 2009 when she identified herself as Jaycee Dugard to the parole officer and the Concord police under interrogation. This was the period when GPS monitoring was imposed on Phillip Garrido and we analysed the data and gave our interpretation.
We developed our narratives from the visit of Phillip Garrido to the University of California, Berkeley. We examined that visit within the context of the US economic recession and its impact on his own business Print for Less.
Financial Trouble Since the real estate crash in late 2007, Pittburg and Antioch's foreclosure rates often were among the nation's highest. The local economy was not doing well. Many local business was starting to cut costs. In January 2008, Nancy Garrido started a music blog site to attract investors to Phillip Garrido's music. By mid 2008, with the collapse of many local businesses and decreased in retail sales, there were less need for business cards and brochures.
 Print for Less was not doing well. Phillip Garrido began to explore other sources of income. Nancy Garrido started a web site to sell his music. Alyssa at age 29 had the idea she could become a model and Phillip Garrido took upon himself to sell God.
In April 2008, the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation compelled Phillip Garrido to wear a GPS device on his leg.
On April 24, 2008 God's Desire was registered as a corporation in California. Sometime in June 2008, he has taken Alyssa and the 2 girls to Pittsburg to pitch God's Desire.
Phillip Garrido and the family he supported survived at bottom of the American food chain. When that bottom fell out, so did the family. Their finances had been deteriorating.
In 2008, police had questioned him about accusations that he swindled $18,000 out of an elderly neighbour, which he said was a donation to his “Church of God’s Desire”. Such was the financial difficulties he faced like many Americans as the economy deteriorated.
On Sept 15 2008 Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection. Dow crashed by 500 points. Fears of a global financial meltdown grew as the world’s biggest bankruptcy plunged markets into turmoil. Images of Lehman employees in New York and London leaving buildings yesterday with belongings packed in cardboard boxes became the defining moment. Bear Stearns, Citi Group, AIG and many other financial institutions collapsed or had to be rescued by the US Government.
During the summer month of July, he had been busy out at JM Enterprise. Jim Molino was a customer and business associate of his and he had set-up tent to promote his Church of God's Desire. He had brought girls out to that car wreckage yard. His relationship with Jim Molino started sometime in 1999 when left his job at the recycling plant to focus fulltime on the printing business.
Coming out of the July-August summer holidays of 2009 and after one whole lazy summer of prolonged sexual copulation with Alyssa in the air-conditioned shed, he was ready to go further afield to promote his church. And on Monday, Aug 24 2009, it took him to the University of California, Berkeley.
Our narratives tell the reader the following:
1. Alyssa was a new identity created by Phillip Garrido. Alyssa was the girl Friday in that backyard compound. During the day, she was the older sister of Angel and Starlit. At night, she was Phillip Garrido's sex partner.
2. She helped out as the graphic designer for Print for Less which was the family printing business. For many years, the printing business provided the main source of income to feed the family of 6 which included Pat Garrido (mother of Phillip Garrido), Phillip and Nancy Garridos, Alyssa, Angel and Starlit.
3. In the earlier years of captivity, he adopted her as his 'wife'. It was the start of her sex slavery. She conditioned herself to be his sex partner. Not that she had the choice of refusal.
4. In time, he nurtured her love for cats into a sexual identity. Alyssa became the feline Goddess Bast, the Goddess of Sex.
5. Phillip Garrido slept with Alyssa nightly except on those days whenever she was menstruating.

6. On those nights identified in the OIG Report where there were alerts, Phillip Garrido spent the night with Alyssa largely in the big family tent next to her own tent at the back of the garden. He had learned how to disable the GPS receiver. The methods for disabling it are discussed here.
7. About 17 July 2009 - Alyssa last slept with Phillip Garrido in the family tent which was their Temple of Sex. For the following few days, she was menstruating. Cardboard boxes and other stuff were stacked high on the bed and it was never used again. The photo taken by Nick Stern on the afternoon of August 26 2009 and captured the state of the tent then.
8. 23 July - 23 August 2009 - Alyssa slept in the arms of Phillip Garrido in the air-conditioned shed. They had moved to one of the shed to avoid the high mid-summer temperature. His GPS signal was disabled and the signal was completed blocked within the air-conditioned shed. It was the height of the North American summer holidays and they spent at least 9 hours daily sleeping and copulating in that shed. During the day, Phillip Garrido, Alyssa and the 2 girls have been taken to town for movies, meals and the Antioch library. One of their last borrowings were Shadow Bridge and Game of Throne.
There were very little business activity during that period. Most of the businesses in Antioch were closed for the summer holidays. The air-conditioned shed was not used during the day and very likely locked up. The fish tank was not cleaned. Alyssa menstruation started on the 23 August 2009. This information was derived from analysing the GPS data and discussed here.
9. 24-25 August 2009 - Alyssa menstruation had just started. Phillip Garrido took the 2 girls Angel and Starlit to the University of California, Berkeley. This was to give Alyssa some rest during the day in her own tent. Those 2 nights, he slept in the house with Nancy Garrido. Alyssa worked in the backyard garden during the day and spent those 2 nights on her own in the backyard garden. She had her books for company.
10. 26 August 2009 - Our interpretation of events at the parole office. Alyssa disclosed to the parole officer that she is the mother of the 2 younger girls in the presence of Nancy Garrido. She tried to provide an alibi for Phillip Garrido and vouched for his character.
11. From the GPS data, we worked out that Alyssa has a 35 day menstrual cycle.
12. From the photos, we worked out that Alyssa read her books at night in her own tent until it was time for her to join Phillip Garrido in the family tent. She would lie on the couch to do her reading with the lamp directed into the tent wall which reflected the light off it. The last book she was reading was Shadow Bridge.

13. From the type of books located on the bookshelf in her tent, we can conclude that Phillip Garrido spent a significant amount of time here reading. In the quiet of the backyard compound, Phillip Garrido befriended Alyssa and over the years, the two of them have developed into soulmates.
14. During the day, she worked from her tent. She did the graphic design from the table next to the book shelf. That same tent was where she serviced men brought in by Phillip Garrido. Over the years, there were many sex orgies held in that tent.
On the more ‘normal’ days, she spent time with the 2 girls sitting out on the chairs outside her tent perhaps to teach them.
15. The 2 girls spent the day in the garden but they also spent time with Nancy in the house for their education. Alyssa could provide basic reading using books such as "Do Cats Think", "The Cat Who Went to Paris" which are fairly basic books. During the day, the 2 younger girls used the tent behind the sound proof shed where their clothings are stored.
16. When evening came, Alyssa helped out with the cooking duties. She developed some expertise in cooking.
17. After dinner, she would helped out with the dishes and then returned to her tent. Later in the evening after Phillip Garrido had put the 2 younger girls to bed in the house, he would return back to the backyard compound. Alyssa would then joined him in the tent. Alyssa slept with Phillip Garrido nightly largely in that tent.
Over the years, for some excitement and change of scenery, they had also slept in the neighbour's (Damon Robinson) shed and some other sheds around the backyard compound garden.
After the recovery of Jaycee Dugard, Phillip Garrido made a statement to the radio station that the girls slept in his arms every night since they were born. It was a technically factual statement expressed in an oblique way. What we believe that he was trying to tell the world was that he put the girl to bed every night in the house before returning to the garden to his wife of choice, Alyssa.
18. During the colder months, the routine was that Alyssa would spent time in her own tent reading at night and then moved to the family tent to join Phillip Garrido. They would copulate in the tent till the morning. Once Phillip Garrido returned back to the house, Alyssa would then join the rest of the family for breakfast and the 2 girls would return back with her to the backyard compound after breakfast.
19. During the hot summer month between July and August, Phillip Garrido and Alyssa spent their nights in the air-conditioned shed. This was derived from the GPS data and also photos showing bedding and mattresses in there. In that room, they would watched pornographic movies and acted out their fantasies.
20. After 18 years of almost daily/night sex, Alyssa developed a Sexual Addiction. She has become more and more like Phillip Garrido.
The photographs were taken largely by British photographer Nick Stern and Paul Sakuma from Mercury News and widely published in several news media.
Sources
TruTV has a good write-up about the overall story. We provide a narrative from a different perspective.
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Human Drama : Analysis of GPS signal loss and Alyssa's menstrual cycle
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| Posted by Ballie on 2009/11/21 9:20:00 (528 reads) |
Our narratives here correlates the GPS signal loss as reported in the special OIG report on Phillip Garrido and Alyssa's menstrual cycle.
The GPS device that Phil Garrido wore around his ankle has 2 systems built-in. It has the GPS receiver which provide works out its location from the constellation of satellite signals. On a good day out in an open field, the GPS receiver would be able to locate about 12 satellites. It just need 4 satellites in order for it to work out its own location.
For civilian use, the GPS receiver uses only the signal at 1575.42 MHz.
 The other system that is built into device would most likely be a SMS transmitter which transmit its own GPS location. How often it transmit is programmable. The SMS transmission would be sent to a pre-defined cellular (mobile phone) number or numbers and presumably are routed to the parole office management system. The system collates the data it receives. This system would function like a fleet management system used by transport company or even the police force to track their vehicle whereabout.
GPS signal blocking There are active low powered GPS blocking devices that transmit a noise signal at the same GPS satellite frequency. This works by transmitting a low power random noise signal at 1575.42 MHz. Under this environment, the GPS signal are swamped by the noise signal and thus is unable to decode it position.
Another passive technique and probably a more practical technique for Phillip Garrido would be to use some form of metallic foil. Effectively, he would have wrapped the metallic foil such as a aluminium foil around the GPS device he wore around his leg. The metallic foil would attenuate the received GPS signal sufficiently such that it is unable to decode its location. If he is inside a metallic enclosure, effectively, that enclosure becomes a radio frequency shield.
According to the OIG report, during a 32-day period between July 23, 2009 and August 23, 2009, the department lost the GPS signal from Garrido’s ankle monitoring device almost every night for prolonged periods of time, typically nine or more hours.
Within reason and by imaginative deduction, we will assume that he was within a metallic enclosure instead of the tent.
In Antioch, July 2009 had an average temperature of 90.70 degrees Fahrenheit (32.6 degree Celsius), while the coldest month of the year is December with an average minimum temperature of 37.10 degrees Fahrenheit (2.83 Celsius). The peak summer daytime temperature was about 102 degree Fahrenheit (38.0 degreee Celsius).
Prior to June 2009, the GPS management system sends an alert to the parole office after a GPS signal was lost for six or more hours. Since then, a new system has been implemented that sends an alert after signal has been lost for 24 hours or more.
From OIG report: Between April 2008 and June 2009, the GPS system alerted parole agents 335 times that Garrido’s GPS monitoring device lost a signal for prolonged periods of time. This was almost a nightly occurrence.
During a 32-day period between July 23, 2009 and August 23, 2009, the department lost the GPS signal from Garrido’s ankle monitoring device almost every night for prolonged periods of time, typically nine hours or more. We will use this 32 days as a reference point where we think Alyssa and Phillip Garrido slept together in that air-conditioned shed.
The report stated that the GPS monitoring started on April 14 2008 but was not specific on the June 2009 date. Assuming it was April 14 2008 to 30 June 2009, there are (16+31+365) 412 days. The 'normal' menstrual cycle for women would be about 28 days although some women can have it as long as 35 days.
The 335 times when Garrido’s GPS monitoring device lost a signal for prolonged periods of time happened from April 14 2008 and June 30 2009. Those 335 times were nightly occurrences over 412 days. By taking a 28 day menstrual cycle, we assumed Alyssa has an average of 24 menses-free days and 5 days of menstruation. At least we assume those were the 5 days Phillip Garrido would not dip his penis into her.
In total, we assume Alyssa menstrual cycle is about 28 days. To get the number of times she had gone through her menstrual cycle, we divide 412 by 28 which gives us about 14.7 times. Of course we cannot have odd number of cycles so we round that up to 15 cycles.
To get the number of days in total between that period when she was menstruating, we multiply 15 x 5 = 75 days. She had a total of 75 days which we think Phillip Garrido did not sleep with her because she was menstruating.
To get the total number of days she slept with Phillip Garrido, we then subtract 75 from 412 which gives us 337 days.
The OIG report mentioned the 335 alerts? How do we justify the discrepancy? There is a slight discrepancy of (337-335) 2 days which is not significant due to some variation in a woman's menstrual cycle.
Those 335 alerts were the 335 nights he spent with Alyssa in the backyard compound with his GPS receiver disabled. Those were the 335 nights when Alyssa was menses-free so that he would dip his penis into her. The man has his standard.
During a 32-day period between July 23, 2009 and August 23, 2009, the department lost the GPS signal from Garrido’s ankle monitoring device almost every night for prolonged periods of time, typically 9 hours or more. Her period might have been late which would have provided them the opportunity to prolong their copulation in the July-August summer holidays.
Sources Special Report on Phillip Garrido from the Office of the Inspector General of California. |
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