[net-gold] CRIME AND CRIMINALS: KIDNAPPING AND KIDNAPPERS : UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT : LAW: CASES: Jaycee Dugard Sues Federal Government for Not Monitoring Her Captor: Can She Win?
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- Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:30:46 -0400 (EDT)
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CRIME AND CRIMINALS: KIDNAPPING AND KIDNAPPERS :
UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT :
LAW: CASES:
Jaycee Dugard Sues Federal Government for Not Monitoring Her Captor:
Can She Win?
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Jaycee Dugard Sues Federal Government for Not Monitoring Her Captor:
Can She Win?
By Elizabeth Flock
Washington Post
National
Blog Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/
jaycee-dugard-sues-federal-government-for-not-monitoring-
her-captor--can-she-win/2011/09/23/gIQAqpCVqK_blog.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/3v75yjp
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Jaycee Dugard sued the federal government Thursday for failing to monitor
the convicted sex offender who grabbed her off a Northern California
street as a child and held her for 18 years.
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Dugards attorney Dale Kinsella said in a statement: We believe that the
years of abuse experienced by Ms. Dugard are a direct result of the U.S.
Parole Commission's colossal blunders handling the case of Phillip
Garrido.
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Even if Kinsella is right, its unclear whether Dugard can win this case.
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The complaint, filed in a San Francisco U.S. District Court, has a sturdy
claim.
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Federal authorities also ignored repeated reports of sexual misconduct by
Garrido, visited his home only a dozen times in a decade, and never found
Dugard captive in the backyard.
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But its always been difficult to win a case against the federal
government.
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Dugard's family has also already received a $20 million settlement in 2009
through a state victims' compensation fund, though the U.S. government has
twice rejected Dugards attempts to reach a settlement through private
mediation.
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Jaycee Dugard Sues the U.S.A for Negligence During Her Ordeal
By WILLIAM DOTINGA
Friday, September 23, 2011Last Update: 7:53 AM PT
Courthouse News Service
http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/09/23/40013.htm
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SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Jaycee Dugard has sued the United States for the 18
years she spent as a kidnap and rape victim of parolee Phillip Garrido,
who has been sentenced to 431 years in prison. Dugard, who bore two of
Garrido's children during her ordeal, says parole officers knew Garrido
repeatedly violated terms of his parole, for years - drinking, taking
drugs, and even contacting a previous rape victim - but gave him a pass,
saying at one point that "electronic monitoring would be too much of a
hassle."
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Dugard was kidnapped in 1991, when she was 11 years old. Garrido then
"drove her miles away to his mother's home in Antioch, California to
become his private possession," according to the federal complaint. "There
he sequestered Jaycee in ragged sheds and tentlike structures in his back
yard-removed from any semblance of normalcy and functioning society-where
he raped Jaycee hundreds of times and over the course of many years. It
was also there that Jaycee's two daughters, each fathered by Garrido, were
born and raised in the grotesque dysfunction that Garrido created and
perpetuated."
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Dugard says Garrido the parolee "tested positive multiple times for drugs
and alcohol-including, without limitation, methamphetamines, amphetamines
and marijuana, all serious parole violations for a sex offender. One such
test showed that Garrido's blood alcohol level was 0.45 percent-a reading
typically associated with unconsciousness and possible death. When
confronted by his parole officer about his possible test results, Garrido
admitted to using drugs and alcohol and also admitted to 'flushing' his
system with excessive amounts of water at other times to avoid producing
positive drug test results. Despite the U.S. Parole Commission's 'zero
tolerance' policy regarding drug use for parolees and despite the
violations of Garrido's special conditions of parole, Garrido's parole
officers did not report Garrido's illegal drug use or alcohol use to the
Parole Commission as required by law."
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The 25-page complaint recites a litany of negligence from officers who
should have been supervising Garrido. Dugard says Garrido violated his
parole by testing positive for drugs and alcohol at least 30 times,
visiting and threatening his previous rape victim, and sexually harassing
a coworker.
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"Garrido's federal parole officers, therapists and counselors
described him at various times throughout his federal parole term as
follows: 'a time bomb,' 'like a pot boiling with no outlet valve,'
'potentially very volatile,' 'potential for causing great physical harm is
present,' 'problems with sexual overtones,' 'did not seem honest ... as if
he was putting on an act,' 'possible danger to the community is high,'
'major problems are presented in this case,' 'there is always threat of
repeat [kidnap/rape],' 'still seems dangerous to the public ... is liable
to give little or no warning,' 'substantial risk to women,' 'is always a
threat to women,' 'potential rapist.'" (Brackets in complaint.)
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A particularly damning paragraph - No. 6 of 87 in the complaint -
states: "Despite Garrido's well-known propensities, federal parole
authorities ignored report after report of sexual misconduct by Garrido.
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