Jaycee Dugard

Well...I'm going to hit a pretty tough subject, here, because I feel that it is so very important. It's about the safety of children, in this country (any country, really...of course), against sexual predators. It's been swept under the rug for way too long, I believe, and...thankfully, Jaycee grabbed the "bull by the horns" and tackled it like the bravest person I have ever heard of, in her new memoir 'A Stolen Life.' Of course, it was just released but, if you haven't heard about this case, Diane Sawyer did an interview with Jaycee, just a couple of nights ago. This particular case, after clearing quite a few cobwebs in my mind, hit pretty close to home because I was living in the state at the time and...I can remember Jaycee as well as several other young girls going missing around about the same time and...I stayed fixed to the television, morning and night, hoping for good outcomes for all of them!

And...here is another interview from the time (gosh how time flies! It didn't seem that long ago!) that Jaycee was found. It's heartbreaking and gut wrenching; and...many will just want to [do the usual]: turn a blind eye to a very prevalent problem in our nation - that of the many children that go missing each and every year.

In addition to that issue, is also the APPALLING and OUTRAGEOUS manner in which MONTHLY visits to this pedophile ENTIRELY MISSED - 60 TIMES!!! - the fact that Jaycee was living out in the back yard, first in a LOCKED storage container and then, in a tent, for 18 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As DIFFICULT as it must have been to have to go through all the details, in detail, to write this HORRIFIC account, I am so in AWE of Jaycee for having made the effort...to educate parents, law enforcement, ALL of us in how to pay more attention and be more vigilant in the protection of young children EVERYWHERE!!

Thank you, Jaycee, for your bravery; and thank your mom for NEVER giving up hope that this HORRIFIC ordeal might someday end in a BEAUTIFUL REUNION! I am SO PROUD of you for your "Will of STEEL!" And...I'm SO PROUD of how AWESOME the first day of the sale of your book is doing! Bravo!

I believe that we ALL should read it...except, perhaps, for pedophiles! :-/ Perhaps they just ought to RUN to the nearest psychologist and get the HELP that they DESPERATELY NEED!! When I hear about these men, I, often, wonder what their childhoods were like; and...where do their ferocious, twisted, and SICK "appetites" for children come from: was it their own undiscovered childhood horrors that exacerbates this type of behavior; is it fueled from having looked at nude magazines, like Ted Bundy, himself, claims is where it began for him? Sadly, many (all?) seem to be psychotic and also get into believing that they are "god" or some "supreme being," like in Elizabeth Smart's case, as well. We need to find ways of dealing with people that "seem strange" WAY before it's on the other end of a string of victims, dammit! There were SEVERAL events that lead up to this case, as were shown on the 2nd interview! How can things go so awry, you wonder? And how can an agency, who is "supposed to" be "keeping watch" on people like this, be so IGNORANT and LAZY?! I tell you what, though: they need to have more than ONE person go into a home like that as...those people are not well! How they end up being left unattended, for ONE MINUTE, is a mystery to me! :-(

Please read the book and...GET EDUCATED about how to help "keep watch" over ALL of our children...TOGETHER!