by Nathan Natas 19 Replies latest watchtower scandals
Video shows Nancy Garrido luring girl into van
By JASON DEAREN, Associated Press - 8 hours ago
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Disturbing new video released Tuesday shows the wife of convicted kidnapper and rapist Phillip Garrido luring a young girl into the couple's van, asking her to do the splits and videotaping her, two years after the couple kidnapped 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard...
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Is she really a JW? I cannot find the proof? Otherwise, I am as shocked as any sensible person would be read this article about kidnapping.
Scott77
Scott77, she was a practicing JW when she met Phillip Garrido in prison, she was most likely out in service
handing out Watchtower and Awake magazines, preaching the word as they say.
There is no information as to how long during or after the kidnapping she remained a JWS.
Aye, Scott77, the evidence is "out there" for anyone willing to spend the least effort doing a Google search for Philip Garrido.
It is true that this one article does not say she was a JW, but plenty of earlier articles have established that fact.
What NO article has ever said, as far as I know, is that either Brother Phil or Sisten Nancy have ever been disfellowshipped from the international Pedophile Paradise otherwise known as Jehovah's Witnesses, followers of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society in Brooklyn, NY.
If in your research you find evidence of their removal from Jah's clean people, we would love to see it.
I can't help but wonder greatly when he was released on parole, that they went to Antioch CA congregation some,,did anything happen to some innocent there and no one, at least no elders are talking. Sure wish there could be some big investigation in that direction for those years back then.
Sometimes all my sentences run together in my posts here so if that happens, just go for the links and the highlighted remarks. Sorry if it happens!
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September 02, 2009 | By Jaxon Van Derbeken and Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writers
When Phillip Craig Garrido was sentenced to 50 years in prison in 1977 for kidnapping a South Lake Tahoe woman so he could rape her in a Reno storage unit, the prosecutor who put him away figured that was one sexual predator who was gone for good.
Under sentencing guidelines now in place, Garrido would have been behind bars for more than two decades - and wouldn't have been free in 1991 when 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was snatched off the street in South Lake Tahoe, not far from where Garrido kidnapped Katie Callaway Hall in 1976.
But under 1970s-era sentencing laws, Garrido was eligible for federal parole after just 10 years - and he was set free in 1988.
"It was a horrendous crime," said Leland Lufty, the former federal prosecutor in Reno who won the 1977 conviction against Garrido. "We had a tough judge. As far as we were concerned, he was locked up forever.
"How could they do that?" Lufty asked. "Look at the record, look at what the guy did - this case was premeditated as it could be."
In testimony at his federal trial, Garrido described himself as a habitual sexual predator who fueled his urges with the LSD he started taking in 1969. The day of the attack, he took four tabs of acid, he testified.
"I had this fantasy that was driving me to do this," Garrido testified. "No way to stop it."
Garrido approached Hall in the parking lot of a South Lake Tahoe grocery store Nov. 22, 1976, told her his car had broken down and persuaded her to give him a ride.
Once in her car, Garrido handcuffed Hall, then used a leather strap to tie her head to her knees. He drove her car across the state line - making the kidnapping a federal case - to what the prosecutor called a makeshift "sex palace," a storage unit in Reno that Garrido had stocked with pornography, sex devices and a mattress.
"I thought I was dead," Hall said this week in an interview on CNN's "Larry King Live."
Over the next five hours, Garrido raped Hall repeatedly. The attack stopped only when a passing police officer became suspicious about the car outside and knocked on the storage unit door.
In his testimony, Garrido said he leered at girls as young as 7, exposed himself to them and later became a Peeping Tom who fantasized about raping women.
He said that he started using drugs in 1969 and that LSD and cocaine fueled his sexual urges. He said he went to local elementary schools, masturbating as he stalked girls in his car.
"This guy was a predator," Lufty said.
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A court-appointed psychiatrist, Dr. Lynn Gerow, described Garrido as having a "multiple sexual deviation" condition - including compulsive masturbation - and attributed it to four years of daily LSD use, along with marijuana, alcohol and cocaine ingestion.
When Garrido subsequently appealed his sentence, however, his lawyer said he was getting help in prison and had become a Jehovah's Witness. In a handwritten letter to a judge in March 1978, Garrido said he was ready for a chance to "get my life in line."
"I am so ashamed of my past. But my future is now in controle (sic)," he wrote.
Garrido lost the appeal and spent his prison time in federal lockups in Leavenworth, Kan., and in Lompoc (Santa Barbara County). Under federal guidelines in place at the time, he was allowed to seek parole within one-third of his sentence or 10 years, whichever was less.
Hall says she figured Garrido would be an old man when he got out. "We had been told his projected release time was 2006," she said on CNN.
Authorities with the U.S. Parole Commission have declined to comment about the circumstances of Garrido's release. However, Gail Powell, a spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Public Safety, said federal authorities at the time told the state that "his progress reports were good. I don't know the specifics, other than he was coming along nicely."
A sentencing expert said Tuesday that in those days, the commission commonly released kidnappers in 10 years or less.
The commission, appointed by the president, set guidelines for the terms of federal prisoners eligible for parole. The guidelines for a kidnapper who raped his victim, but did not hold her for ransom and had no serious criminal record - and Garrido had no previous conviction - were probably less than 10 years in prison, said Dennis Curtis, a Yale Law School professor.
"It would have been a routine decision by the Parole Commission to let him go at the 10-year point," Curtis said.
"It goes to show you how sentences have climbed since 1984," Curtis said. "You're looking at a much harsher climate now."
Congress passed a law that took effect in 1987, abolishing parole for federal crimes and established a sentencing commission to develop new guidelines. The commission has increased recommended sentences for most crimes, and Congress has weighed in with laws requiring minimum sentences for many offenses.
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"It was an attack on so-called lawless sentencing," said Robert Weisberg, a Stanford law professor. He said the parole system had fallen out of favor across the political spectrum, denounced from the right as lenient and based on unrealistic notions of rehabilitation, and from the left as arbitrary and prone to political manipulation.
Kidnapping with sexual exploitation and the use of restraints, such as the handcuffs Garrido used on Hall in 1976, now carries a guideline sentence of 24 to 30 years. Prisoners can get their terms shortened by up to 15 percent for good behavior.
If Garrido had been sentenced in 1977 to 27 years, in the middle of the guideline range, he would have been in prison until at least 2000.
As it was, federal officials turned him over in January 1988 to Nevada, where he served a few additional months for the rape conviction stemming from the 1976 attack.
On Aug. 1, 1988, the parole board in Nevada voted 3-2 to release Garrido.
Powell said four of the members from that board have since died, and the fifth is in an elder care home.
"Nobody knows what was in the mind of these board members," she said. "It's very hard to speak for somebody who isn't here. They didn't write anything. It was a checklist."
In 1993 - two years after he allegedly kidnapped Dugard - Garrido violated his federal parole by possessing marijuana. He served a stint in prison from April to August that year.
Powell said her agency was never informed of the violation and instead kept getting positive reports from federal authorities.
"We could have revoked him," she said. "We definitely would have done something."
California took over Garrido's parole supervision in 1999. He didn't record a single violation, said state parole spokesman Gordon Hinkle.
Garrido's victim from 1976 said she "never did quite feel comfortable" after Garrido was put away - "I mean, it takes a long time to overcome something like this," Hall said - and thought Garrido had once approached her menacingly after he was paroled.
When she learned he had been arrested last week, she said, "I screamed. I started screaming, 'Oh my God, oh my God! It's him.' "
At the request of Jaycee Lee Dugard's mother, Terry Probyn, the nonprofit Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe has set up an account for Dugard and her two daughters to help with "immediate and future needs."
Checks should be made payable to SISLTF/Jaycee Dugard Family Fund. They may be sent to Bank of the West, Account No. 186153508; 2161 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150.
http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-09-02/news/17204579_1_south-lake-tahoe-sexual-predator-storage-unit
Did you watch Diane Sawyer’s interview with abduction survivor Jaycee Dugard last night? There are a lot of parallels to the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping, though Smart was rescued after nine months, while Dugard was held captive for 18 years, giving birth twice in her backyard prison.
Both Smart’s kidnapper Brian David Mitchell and Dugard’s kidnapper Phillip Garrido said they were acting on special instructions from God, using these delusions to justify their crimes. (Of course, Christianity doesn’t condone kidnapping and rape… but, when used by madmen, twisted beliefs serve as an effective tool for manipulation.)
Both Mitchell and Garrido had female accomplices — their wives, who were somehow in their thrall, sharing their religious convictions. Were they also crazy, or just taking “obey thy husband” too far?
But perhaps above all, both Smart and Dugard now serve as living examples of incredible hope and strength — for some of us, reaffirming faith in God, even as the horror of what they went through begs the question, “Where was God?”
I don’t know if everyone can handle reading Dugard’s book, but the TV interview is worth checking out, if youmissed it. There were lots of references to religion’s role in her captivity, ranging from how Nancy Garrido, a Jehovah’s Witness, first met her husband by discussing the Bible with him in prison, and how Phillip Garrido would make Dugard listen to “ long lectures about the Bible and how he is the chosen one.”
Atlantis
Good grief! My post never looked like that on my computer!
More tea! And make it strong this time!
Atlantis!
Nathan is absolutely correct when he says the evidence is out there! There were other articles posted earlier that described the wife as a JW.
Atlantis (Where is that tea?)
Brother Garrido's mum was a Dub too. Living in the house with them.
I am with you Gayle what about the Antioch congregation? Or what about the brother who was studying with Phillip and who stood up for him in fornt of the parole saying he was safe to be outside prison?
In my hall we had a child molester brother well we had three but this one was a level 3 and we also have a elder who is an attorney this attorney elder bragged to me that he helped the sex offender get dropped to a level 2. He wanted him down to a level 1 but somehow the DNA evidence got lost. When I totally lost it in front of this elder saying how dare you do that to a man convicted of raping a eight year old child!!!!!!!!!!!!! The elder shot back to me that the child molester had told the whole body of elders he did not do the crime he only took the rap for his son. And as this elder informed me no brother would ever lie to a body of elders.
This child molester also had a wife who had a 10 year old little girl when she married him and she also like Nancy Garrido would help her husband mentor young boys in the hall who had little sisters.
Another child molester we has in the hall got married twice in the "truth" both to women with little girls and the last wife produced a baby for him. I was at one assembly where this child molester was holding his toddler little girl while holding the had of another little girl and two more little were right beside him.
Yet I was told I was the pervert by the elders.
I truly wish Jaycee Dugard or her mom would sue the hell out of the Watchtower. If they ever do I would testify for them of what I know to be a proven fact of how this religion hide pedophiles.
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