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Kidnapped girl ‘will take years to heal’
From correspondents in Washington DC
Agence France-Presse
August 29, 2009 01:57pm
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+ – Print Email Share Add to MySpace Add to Digg Add to del.icio.us Add to Fark Post to Facebook Add to Kwoff What are these? KIDNAPPED as a young girl, shut away from the world and raped by a sexual predator by whom she bore two children, Jaycee Dugard could take years to overcome her hellish ordeal, experts said.
Her 18-year nightmare, cloistered in the backyard of the couple who snatched her from the street outside her South Lake Tahoe home when she was just 11, will leave deep scars as she struggles to re-adapt to normal life.
“I’m very concerned about her condition and her ability to heal. She will really need to be in a trauma program and treated by specialists and it will take a long time,” said Alison Walls, a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of the Rockies.
Such experiences of kidnap are extremely traumatic and young victims develop a variety of strategies to cope, experts said.
“One can’t overestimate the impact of the loss of her whole family,” said James McCracken, a psychiatrist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Being taken at such a young age, Dugard would likely have felt “as if her entire family has died,” he said, although she may also have found “little islands of… remembrance to retain hope.”
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Herald Sun, 31 Aug 2009 Ms Dugard, now 29, who does not appear to have tried to escape from her alleged kidnapper Phillip Garrido according to initial reports, would likely have used mental dissociation to survive.
“She may be dissociative, meaning that she is kind of spacey. She may not be in her body mentally and emotionally.
“She may have had to completely shut down in order to survive,” Dr Walls said.
“That would cause her to be in a sort of robot mode, if you will, so she can go through the day, be there for the children and survive.”
But she may also have developed so-called Stockholm syndrome, where a captive begins to sympathise with a kidnapper.
“When someone is victimised in that way, there is a strange phenomenon that takes place where they eventually identify with the perpetrator because they are dependant on the perpetrator,” Dr Walls said.
“She had to at least pretend to make friends with the perpetrator so that she would be fed and able to survive… (causing) her to feel like she belongs there in some unhealthy way.”
Ms Dugard’s stepfather, Carl Probyn, said Jaycee and her two daughters, 15, and 11, had been reunited with her mother and half-sister on Friday, although the youngsters were nervous about being out among crowds of people.
Mr Probyn said Dugard now feels guilty that during her long captivity she became close to her captor.
“Jaycee feels that she has real regrets for bonding with this guy,” he said.
Ms Dugard was confined in a makeshift prison of sheds and tents in what police have described as a “backyard within a backyard” at Garrido’s home in Antioch, around 80km east of San Francisco.
Her daughters never went to school, never saw a doctor.
Experts said the accused appears to be a rare kind of sexual predator as most such criminals kill their victim within 72 hours.
“This is not the common garden variety of sex offender,” said Gary Mears, a neurologist at the University of the Rockies in Colorado who has evaluated hundreds of sex offenders.
He described Garrido as the type of person who “pretends to be normal,” but can “keep their victims in a place almost like a dungeon and then carry on another part of their life.”
“This guy has a great number of skills, social skills, but still has this incredible sex drive and the financial ways – a home, maybe a job, a spouse – to make his deviance realised,” Dr Mears said.
But some, including Ed Smart, whose daughter Elizabeth was kidnapped at age 14 and found nine months later, are skeptical that victims really sympathise with their abductors.
“I don’t agree there is a Stockholm syndrome.
“I think that in many cases, these children do try to escape and after numerous attempts they feel it’s hopeless, and so they try to survive,” he said.
“That’s not necessarily bonding with these monsters.”
Questions also surround the motives of Garrido’s wife, Nancy, who is also in police custody and has denied multiple charges.
In some instances the wives of men like Garrido support them.
“They actually might encourage the relationship because they don’t want to have a relationship,” Dr Mears said.
“Their motivation