Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped when she was just 11 years old. After she was abducted, she was kept captive by her kidnappers for the next 18 years.While being held by the couple, Jaycee Lee Dugard gave birth to two daughters, both fathered by one of her kidnappers. And now, the two people responsible for taking her from that school bus stop twenty years ago have confessed.
Finally Phillip and Nancy Garrido have admitted that they abducted Jaycee, hoping for some kind of mercy. But regardless of the level of mercy distributed, the two are looking at some serious jail time.
How much time and does this finally give closure to this tragic tale?
The District Attorney offered a sentence of 241 years to Nancy Garrido and a sentence of 440 years to life for Phillip Garrido. And if they accepted the plea bargain offered, Jaycee and her two teenage daughters would not have to testify during a trial, which really would be best for everyone.
But even with a punishment of being in prison for the rest of their lives, does this really give any closure to Jaycee Lee Dugard and her family? And Dugard’s daughters must have a great emotional burden since it is their father, the only father they have ever known, who is behind bars. The two girls had never known about their mother’s past and that she had been kidnapped, but their mother’s reality became painfully clear after Phillip Garrido’s arrest. And it would undoubtedly be extremely painful if they were called to testify.
Should the girls not have to testify at the trial? And will they ever be able to find peace and closure?
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