Jaycee Dugard, Why Didn’t She Get Help?

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Jaycee Dugard, Why didn’t anybody help? Why didn’t Jacyee get help?

An amazing story of a child gone missing for 18 years and now reappears with two children. It bares repeating again, living in a backyard “with in a backyard”, in a shed, again with two children for 18 years! It is nothing less of a miracle. However; it seems incomprehensible that this could happen in a neighborhood surrounded by other homes, with other families, why didn’t anyone notice?

Well first of all, the question for  many is “Why didn’t Jaycee Dugard run for help or try to escape?”

Lets all regress a bit to when we were eleven. Those of us who were that age in 1991, or turned 11 years old prior to that year remember times were different than they are now in some sense. I know when I was eleven, which was in 1984, I knew what school I attended, I knew my home phone number and I may have known how to get to the corner store or any other frequented areas that my parents took me to. Other than that, if I were taken from my closed environment and driven 300 or more miles away, I doubt I would have been able to find my way back home. We have been judging this from the mindset of an adult, we must go back and remember this was a child when this happened.

Besides being 11 years old, in my opinion, more than likely Jaycee Dugard was threatened. I am sure her captor threatened the life of her parents, and then when she birthed children from the Father/Captor, Garrido, more than likely He threatened her child’s lives. I am thinking either when Jaycee would speak  on the phone or have any outside contact, there was a threat hanging over her head that if she ran for help someone else would be harmed due to her selfishness. This is a twisted man who mentally and physically abused and controlled Jacyee for 18 years! From the age, again of 11!

In addition to the question of “Why didn’t Jaycee get help?” or “Why didn’t others notice”? Well the answer is simple, people mind their own business. Sad to say, not everyone, but majority of people in this era stay inside their homes watching TV, blogging, and fiddling with phones, in addition, also tending to their own families that need attention.