The Jaycee Dugard story is one that would haunt us for a long time. It will haunt parent, it makes us fear of our children's safety. The Jaycee Dugard story reminds us that the world is not that safe despite how modern and advanced we have become. For 18 years no one knew about the horrific secret the sex offender Philip Garrido has kept in his backyard. The very idea of how he and his wife managed to steal and destroy Jaycee's life for 18 years without their neighbors knowing about it chills the soul, it makes us think that no one is really safe. As to Jaycee, would she ever heal? Would she be able to live as a normal human being again? I doubt. No amount of therapy could heal the wounds and the scars that 18 years of abuse and torture (I consider it torture) has brought to her brain and on her psyche.
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I think they should treat pedophilia as a mental illness and pedophiles should be institutionalized permanently so they do not harm any more children. Prison obviously is not working and every time a child is abducted, killed or molested, the perpetrator has a history of child molestation. So we need to protect our children and not give any more second chances to pedophiles.