Jaycee Lee Dugard the little girl Kidnapped in 1991 has miraculously turned up alive and well, I say well but I am sure there will be problems, psychologically that will take years to correct if they are even treatable. There will be millions of words written about this poor child in the worlds media over the coming days and weeks, so I am going to look at this story from a different angle.
Jaycee had last been seen on June 10, 1991 when she was dragged into a car as she walked to a bus stop near her home in South Lake Tahoe.
Stepdad Carl heard her screams and saw a man and woman drive his daughter away. He gave chase on a bicycle but could not catch up.
Carl, 60 - who has split from Terry - was at one stage regarded as the main suspect and took four lie detector tests while protesting his innocence.
Imagine how awful this mans life has been for the last 18 years only one person knew he was innocent. Himself.
Even the most loyal family member must have wondered about him, suspected that he was a murderer at best, or a child rapist and murderer at worst, everywhere he went people would whisper and point, and yet all the time he was innocent.
The way the situation arose it did look suspicious for him, firstly he was not the real father, secondly he was the last person to see her, the story he told police of a car pulling up with a man and woman inside just pulling over grabbing Jaycee and driving away sounded implausible, it was just to simple, giving chase on a pushbike but having to stop after a matter of yards because he was so unfit just did not have a ring of truth about it. and as unbelievable as it was it was the truth.
Which puts me in mind of a story closer to home, Madeline McCann. I am in the camp that think the parents have some involvement, I have said so in this column previously, their story sounded implausible to, difficult to believe, hard to accept, but maybe in a few years she may walk into a police station somewhere and have a story to tell, that would be better than the alternative that she is dead. Today I have stepped slightly outside the camp that believe her parents are definitely involved and concede that stranger things can and do happen.
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