Monsters Among Us
Eighteen years of anguished torture. There are monsters roaming this Earth, and they manage, somehow, to foil the attempts of law enforcement, to achieve their ghoulish ends, horribly victimizing the innocent. Psychopaths who have no hesitation in abducting, imprisoning, torturing, enslaving and sexually assaulting children. What is inexplicable in a situation such as the abduction, incarceration and serial rape of 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard in 1991 was that the wife of her abductor was fully knowledgeable and complicit.It's incomprehensible that a woman might have no compassion for the horrible fate of a child. That any woman would remain faithful and loyal to a man she knows has raped once, been convicted, and remains on lifetime parole, and then embarks on yet another, more horrific escapade of abduction and rape. A pair of psychopathic misfits who most certainly deserve one another, which still presents as a mystery of misbegotten proportions. It is, however, a fallacy to believe that woman are not as capable of inhumanity as are men.
Both of her abductors are now in custody. And the woman who was once a girl who had the extreme misfortune to be at the right place at the wrong time, and who suffered horrendous abuse over a nineteen-year period during which her childhood vanished, her life subsumed by being held furtively as a sex slave to a ravening lunatic for whom she bore two children is now free. Free to resume an education? To raise her two unfortunate children? Free to muse on the horror that her life represented?
Will she ever be free of the memory of what she was exposed to, what she was forced to experience; of the tragedy of her life and that of her two children? Will she be able to resume a life resembling normalcy? Will her two children ever be free from the knowledge of their conception? Will all three of them ever be capable of experiencing trust and hope and love and contentment and satisfaction and happiness and the exultation of freedom - aspiring for their futures?
Miss Dugard's presence was never discovered, despite that there were neighbours living beside the property where two sheds represented her home. The regular visits of parole officers whose purpose it was to ensure that a known sex offender did not re-offend did nothing to reveal her presence, nor that of her children. Police, investigating a neighbour's complaint that Mr. Garrido, a known sex offender, was in the presence of two children, found nothing amiss, years ago.
Society with all its safety nets, its policing agents, its judicial system, its security oversights and its child welfare agencies, did nothing whatever to rescue Miss Dugard and her children from their nightmare of existence. An odd combination of circumstances did that. Rescue, at last. What will their future hold for them?
Labels: Human Relations, Human Rights, Societal Failures
posted by Pieface @ Friday, August 28, 2009
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