I’m as Mad as Hell, and I’m Not Going to Take This Anymore

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I’m as Mad as Hell, and I’m Not Going to Take This Anymore

Filed under: Activism, Child Custody, Child Custody Battle, Child Support, Child custody for fathers, Children who witness abuse, Claudine Dombrowski, Corrupt Judges, Corrupt Lawyers, Custody Evaluators, Danielle Malmquist, Domestic Abuse, Domestic Relations, Domestic Violence, Family Courts, Fatherhood groups, Fathers Rights, Getting screwed by the politicians, Human Rights, Jeffery Leving, Judges who break the law, Judicial Immunity, Kristin Hanson, Legal abuse, Lynn Rosenthal, Maternal Deprivation, Motherhood, Murder - Suicide, Non-custodial Mothers, Noncustodial Mothers, Protect yourself from FR groups, Shari Andree, Shirley Riggs, Speak Out, Wendy Titelman, Whores of the court — justice4mothers @ 7:39 pm

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I’m a human being, God dammit.  My life has value.

I’m as mad as Hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore.

Things have got to change.

So many moms are losing their children to their abusers.  The American Judge’s Association knows it.  The National District Attorney’s Association knows it.  The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges know it.  The Acting Director from the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice, Catherine Pierce, knows it.  Why in the hell doesn’t someone actually do something about it? 

What about Wendy Titelman, Claudine Dombrowski, Danielle Malmquist, Shari Andree, Kristin Hanson, Shirley Riggs and the many, many other moms that have been kept from their children for years, children who are now with their abusers or their mother’s abusers.  But more importantly, what about their children?  What the hell about the children?

The courts are filled with father’s rights judges, and if a father fights for custody, he generally gets it.  Abusive fathers are twice as likely to fight for custody, and 70% of the time they get it.  Can you imagine what is it like for a child to be forced to be with their rapist…they are generally drugged into compliance with anti-depressants, etc. to be able to cope.  The courts have set up a whole cottage industry over the corruption, which feeds the corrupt family law lawyers, custody evaluators, mediators, co-parenting counselors, and all your associated Whores of the Court.

Why did President Obama have a Father’s Day function at the White House?  Did he forget we have a Mother’s Day too, or is it another bow to the father’s rights/abuser’s lobby in this country.  Why does he support fatherhood?  Shouldn’t he be supporting parenthood?  Or are mothers just walking wombs to him?  Why would President Obama have a relationship with father’s rights lawyer Jeffery Leving, who was making excuses for fathers murdering families?  I listen to Jeffery Leving’s dad’s rights commercials on WBBM AM-780 in Chicago every night as I go to sleep in my vehicle.   I feel sick as I wonder if I will have enough food to make it though the week.  Then I think of my own children I have not seen in a long, long time…they are with my abuser.  The abuser that takes a chunk of my pay, even though he makes much more than I do.  I worked hard to put myself through college, served in the military for almost eight years.  And I am left to sleep in my car.  And listen to Jeffery Leving’s commercials every night.  Thanks to America’s family courts.

I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!

Mr. President, if you want to talk about what is really going on with family courts, email me at rightsformothers@gmail.com and I will get on the next train to DC to discuss with you.  You need to listen to moms too.

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Assigned to check abuse, social worker impregnates client ;then seeks sole custody of child

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Assigned to check abuse, social worker impregnates client

Kristyna Wentz-Graff

Theola Nealy of Milwaukee sits on the bed of her 5-year-old daughter, Amy, who no longer lives with her. Her daughter and son were removed from her custody. Another daughter, 1, fathered by social worker Peter Nelsen, is now in Nelsen’s custody. The Milwaukee County district attorney’s office is reviewing the case.

By Crocker Stephenson of the Journal Sentinel

Posted: Aug. 27, 2009

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Peter J. Nelsen arrives at the Milwaukee County Courthouse Friday for a hearing on a restraining order against him by Theola Nealy.

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A state social worker who investigated a report of child abuse for the Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare later had sex with the child's emotionally troubled mother and impregnated her. He then hid the woman's pregnancy and the birth of their daughter from the bureau, even as the mother sought to retain custody of two other children, the Journal Sentinel has learned.

The 56-year-old social worker, Peter J. Nelsen, was allowed to resign from the bureau April 15, according to bureau records.

Within months of his resignation, the bureau removed the 1-year-old girl from her mother and placed her in Nelsen's home. The other children - a 5-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy - also had been removed.

Nelsen is now seeking sole custody of the 1-year-old.

"Everything that I love is gone," said the 31-year-old mother, Theola Nealy.

Nealy was sit

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The Crucial importance of mother “Common Sense”

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But of course  Maternal Deprivation from mother during any time of a growing child is sadistic- I know- my daughter knows- It has been now eleven years- that we have been denied to even simply ‘hug’. –but of course it is more imperative that we ‘not tarnish the image of father’

- after all it is not healthy for a child to see her father as the convicted bully and wife beater that he is- so- contact has been denied- to keep her from ;knowing of the violence. Thanks to the power of www-  the Silence has been broken..

 

Maternal Deprivation was inflicted on monkeys by Harry Harlow with terrible consequences. Now this abuse is spreading to humans promulgated by unethical psychologists who are experimenting in social engineering on human children.

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First Three Years

This section of our website offers information on the importance of the presence of the mother during the first three years of life. These years are critical in child development. Personal experiences from those mothers or couples who understand the importance of the mother’s presence during the early years will be found at the “Readers’ Views.”

 

Breastfeeding: An Important Foundation September 21, 2008
Breastfeeding and the Early Years September 14, 2008
The Breastfeeding Continuum September 7, 2008
Breastfeeding: What’s Important? The Mother or the Milk?August 7, 2007
The Importance of the Mother During the First Three YearsFebruary 28, 2005
The Crucial First Three Years 1998 booklet

 

 

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The Mommy blog-The Crucial importance of mothers.

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This common sense attachment info needs to be made public and widely circulated -  It seems that we now need to restate the obvious.

Everyone in the field of early childhood education and child growth and development understand the role of mothers and infants and the bond.  the fatherhood movement isn't even based in common sense, let alone scientific studies.  I wish more educated people would speak up...then again, people really don't know what's going on..

 

http://mommyerin. blogspot. com/2009/ 08/why-do- i.html

Why do I...

...keep my babies with me all the time? As in, why don't I leave them with babysitters, or drop them off at daycare or at least a mother's morning out, take trips without them, or even leave them with my husband when I want to go out shopping for a few hours?

The short answer: I'd miss them too much. That and the whole feeding issue.

The long answer:

Biologically, mothers and babies belong together, as one unit. The mother remains the primary habitat for the baby beyond the months of pregnancy. Her body continues to completely nourish the baby for at least the first six months, and then should continue to be the main source of nutrition for at least the next ix months. The baby forms its primary attachment to the mother by being in close constant contact with her.

One of La Leche League's ten belief statements is as follows: "In the early years, the baby has an intense need to be with his mother which is as basic as his need for food." So it is not just about nutrition. Nutrition may be what helps begin the bonding of mother and baby: baby must eat frequently, and mother keeps him close. they experience skin-to-skin contact through nursing, and they begin to form a bond. The baby is learning about love and life from his mother - who he thinks he is actually a part of - through the physical closeness. He is learning to trust, and that consistent person being there all the time for him brings him security. This is what "attachment" is all about.

A baby first becomes attached to his mother, and she to him, in these early months. But the LLL statement above said the early years. This means that baby is not suddenly ready to spend a lot less time with his mother once he hits the end of his first year. The statement is vague on the exact number of years since that will vary from child to child. Independence from the mother is not something that can be forced on a child - it is a gradual process.

Personally, it seems to me that a child any less than about 18-24 months old is not going to understand about long separations from his mother. Some mothers have to work eight hours a day - yes, this is a reality for some. But it is not ideal, in my opinion. As unpopular as it may be for me to say this, I think babies and young children should be at home with their mothers. This is the person they were designed to be with for the vast majority of the time in their early years, and it has been shown to be optimal for their well-being.

Some people say that a mother who will not release her baby or toddler into the care of others is being "overprotective." They try to make it about the mother's needs more than the child's needs. So many mothers are brushed off, saying, "Oh, he doesn't need you - it sounds like you're the one who is needy!" True, a mother does feel a need to be with her nursing baby, because of the need to feed him, and also because of the bond that is there. But most mothers - myself included - are genuinely concerned for their baby's well-being in wanting to keep him close. This is not to say that other people are incompetent and can't care for a baby properly (like great Aunt Ethel who's been after you to keep the baby for a couple days while you go out of town)... just that the mother believes that it is in the baby's best interest to remain with his mother.

This reaction is somewhat understandable in our culture. We are basically taught through our experiences that toddlers, even infants, who cry for their mothers are spoiled and trying to manipulate them. That mothers are replaceable by any child care provider, at any age, and for any length of time. That toddlers who don't fall asleep alone are going to have horrible sleep problems in the future. So, I don't fault people who say, "You need to get a break from that baby!" They usually don't mean any harm - it is just ingrained in our culture, the same way any old lady who sees you with your baby in a store will ask you, "Is he a good baby?"

Babies lack object permanence. When a baby's mother leaves, he does not understand that she will be back. His brain isn't developed to the point of knowing that once she is out of sight, she still exists. It as if she has ceased to exist. The longer the separation, the harder it is on the baby. The baby can even begin to mourn for his mother as if she were dead (I wish I remember where I had read that so I could quote it directly). Even as babies gain object permanence - realizing that things still exist even when not in sight - they still think they are a part of the mother. They don't begin to really view themselves as separate for a while still.

The brain grows at a tremendous rate in the first three years - faster than at any other time. This is especially so in the first two years. So many connections are being made (or not) at this time. The combination of breastmilk and nurturing have been shown to be very important in brain development.

I want to share some quotes on this topic now... the first set of quotes come from Kippley's writings on the First Three Years:

Hugh Riordan, Specialist in Human Communications and Director of The Olive W. Garvey Center of Human Functioning, says, "There are six reactions of children to separation when the mother is not around her child. The pattern may be 1) depression, 2) agitation or distress, 3) rejection, 4) apathy, 5) regression or 6) clinging. Why would a mother do that to her child?. . . When can a child withstand separation from the mother? Up to two years of age is a high anxiety time; from two to three years of age is a lesser anxiety time. This varies with the individual."

Sheila Kippley, in her booklet The Crucial First Three Years, writes, "William Gairdner in his book, The War Against the Family,22 pointed out that three separate research studies conducted at three different major universities all clearly showed that what babies and young children need is l) mother’s availability, 2) mother’s responsiveness to her child’s need for comfort and protection, and 3) mother’s sensitivity to her child’s signals. In other words, the mother has to be there, she has to read the signals of her baby, and she has to respond to her baby in a sensitive manner. Gairdner claims that there is unanimity on this important point: “poorly attached children are sociopaths in the making.” To avoid poorly attached children, one key is good mothering. According to Gairdner, the keys to good mothering, then, are these: availability, responsiveness, and sensitivity. Gairdner also states that “young children need an uninterrupted, intimate, and continuous connection with their mothers, especially in the very early months and years.” With prolonged breastfeeding, the mother has an uninterrupted and continuous relationship with her baby and it’s an intimate relationship as well."

Robert Lee Hotz, in his article “Study: Babies May Need Hugs to Develop Brain,” wrote, “Scientists have known for decades that maternal deprivation can mark children for life with serious behavioral problems, leaving them withdrawn, apathetic, slow to learn, and prone to chronic illness. . . Moreover, new animal research reveals that without the attention of a loving caregiver early in life, some of an infant’s brain cells simply commit suicide.” Mark Smith, a psychologist at the DuPont Merck Research Labs commented, “These cells are committing suicide. Let this be a warning to us humans. The effects of maternal deprivation may be much more profound than we had imagined.”

Harold Voth, M.D., said in the Medical Times in November 1980 (so this is not new stuff!), “A baby must have a mother, a mother who is mature enough to attend to its needs and provide so-called object constancy for a minimum of three years... The mothering function is one of the most important of all human events but, unfortunately, one of the least appreciated or regarded by society.” So true that stay-at-home moms are undervalued in our culture...

This one is from Maria Montessori in The Absorbent Mind: “Mother and child are inseparable… For the mother has to feed her child, and therefore she cannot leave him at home when she goes out. To this need for food is added their mutual fondness and love. In this way, the child’s need for nutrition, and the love that unites these two beings, both combine in solving the problem of the child’s adaptation to the world, and this happens in the most natural way possible. Mother and child are one. Except where civilization has broken down this custom, no mother ever entrusts her child to someone else… Another point is the custom of prolonging the period of maternal feeding. Sometimes this lasts for a year and a half; sometimes for two, or even three years. This has nothing to do with the child’s nutritional needs, because for some time he has been able to assimilate other kinds of food; but prolonged lactation requires the mother to remain with her child, and this satisfies her unconscious need to give her offspring the help of a full social life on which to construct his mind.”

There are lots more great quotes at the link above... I won't post them all here. If you are interested, go read more!

The chapter in the Womanly Art of Breastfeeding titled "Making a Choice" is a good read regarding mother-baby togetherness and the importance of that early relationship between the two. Among other things, it discusses how a young child shows classic signs of grief when separated from his mother. Humberto Nagera, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Montana, is quoted as saying, "When the child is confronted with his mother's absence his automatic response is an anxiety state that on many occasions reaches overwhelming proportions. Repeated traumas of this type in susceptible children will not fail to have serious consequences for their later development. .. No other animal species will subject their infants to experiences that they are not endowed to cope with, except the human animal."

I believe it was in a Dr. Sears book where I read that he thought it was best if children didn't spend the night away from their parents until they were at least three. That resonated with me way back when I read it, because it immediately brought to mind my own childhood. I am the oldest of four. I don't ever remember my parents leaving us overnight when we were very young (obviously I might not remember this myself, but I would remember for my brothers since they are younger). My mom has told me about the first time I stayed overnight with somebody else - her parents. I have very vague memories of going camping with them. This happened the week before I turned three. Then, the next time my parents went somewhere and had us stay at a friend's house for a few nights was when Tim, my youngest brother, was about three or four years old. I think all four of us stayed with the Tramontes for those few days (they had five kids, so it probably didn't make much of a difference to them to have all of us there too!). Anyway, I just want to say thanks, Mom and Dad!

Of final note: it could be argued that children under the age of three probably won't remember any of it in the future, so it doesn't matter if they aren't with their mother. But the science shows otherwise. The child may not remember, but the imprint of his early years follows him.

I hope this post is coherent - I wrote it in several sittings and want to go to bed now since it is after 11, so I am not proofreading it tonight. Hope it all makes sense!

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Richardson shot and killed his baby daughter Then he turned the gun on himself.

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Cops say father shot girl before shooting himself

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August 28, 2009

By Jon Seidel, Post-Tribune staff writer

GARY -- A 20-year-old man shot and killed his baby daughter Thursday night just as he was expected to release her to her uncle in downtown Gary, police said. Then he turned the gun on himself.

Cordell Richardson was expected by police to survive his murder-suicide attempt, and officers said they expect to file charges against him this morning.

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Lake County Detective Alan Magurany, left, talks Thursday evening with fellow Lake County Detective David Eichelberger after collecting evidence at the scene of a shooting in which a 19-month-old girl was killed in the parking lot east of the U.S. Steel Yard in Gary.
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Officials said Richardson shot 19-month-old Eboni N. Richardson, of the 500 block of South Vermillion Street, in the chest before shooting himself in the head. She was pronounced dead a short time later.

The shooting took place in the parking lot of Bennigan's restaurant and the U.S. Steel Yard at 500 E. 5th Ave., according to the Lake County Coroner's office. It happened less than two hours before a game there was scheduled to begin.

Cpl. Gabrielle King, a spokeswoman for the Gary Police Department, said the shooting was connected neither to the restaurant nor the Gary South Shore RailCats baseball team. Fans filed into the stadium while police worked the crime scene, and the game continued as scheduled.

"They can still feel safe coming to the RailCats," King said of the fans. "They can still feel safe coming to Bennigan's."

The chaos that erupted when the shooting occurred was still coming into focus Thursday night. Police said they received several calls about 5:25 p.m. for incidents at 19th Avenue and Hanley Street, 600 Grant Street, and East 5th Avenue and Virginia Street.

Early reports indicated Richardson was expected to hand the child over to her mother. Later Thursday evening, police said they learned Richardson was expected instead to turn the girl over to her uncle.

Richardson was supposed to meet family members at an unknown location earlier in the night, King said, but never showed. He later agreed to meet in the downtown parking lot.

"It was just a mutual meeting place," King said.

Richardson arrived in a black sport utility vehicle, King said, and met a group of family members in a purple Pontiac. Instead of handing the child off, King said, Richardson shot the girl and then himself.

Next, King said, a passenger in the Pontiac got into the SUV to drive Richardson to The Methodist Hospitals Northlake campus, while the driver of the Pontiac tried to drive the baby there.

The Pontiac broke down at 4th Avenue and Monroe Street, King said. The driver of the SUV picked up the baby when he saw it being carried by foot to the hospital.

"That's why you have all this chaos," King said.

Contact Jon Seidel at 648- 3068 or jseidel@post-trib.com. Comment at www.post-trib.com.

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Orlando police 911- chastise the victim a woman slain in domestic dispute

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Orlando police fire 911 dispatcher who took calls in January murder-suicide

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Orlando police fired a 911 dispatcher Thursday who handled calls seeking help for a kidnapped woman who was found slain hours later, a department spokeswoman said.
Police ruled Alan F. Ballard, 60, made several mistakes in the case of Loyta Sloley, 24, who was found Jan. 27 on the floor of a downtown Orlando hotel room, shot at least four times. Her ex-boyfriend James Clayton, 46, was collapsed on top of her, dead of a single gunshot to the head.
The morning of Sloley's death, Ballard told her she was making police "do a lot of work that we don't need to be doing," according to a recording of the call. He also failed to warn his supervisor that the case was urgent, an internal investigation found.
"Our employees have to be held accountable for their actions," police spokeswoman Sgt. Barbara Jones said
Ballard did not comment, saying he is in the process of appealing the decision. In a written rebuttal to police he said the accusations against him are unfair.
"I, to this very moment, can think of nothing I would have done differently, given the facts I had at the time the situation was unfolding," Ballard wrote.
Ballard had not previously been disciplined.
An internal report casts the four hours that passed between the first call for help and the discovery of Sloley's body as a series of missed opportunities and delays. During that time, Ballard handled a flurry of phone calls between Sloley's concerned loved ones and officers, plus unrelated emergency calls.
The first call for help came at 8:15 a.m. when Sheryl Blake-Robinson, a supervisor at Lucerne Hospital and Sloley's co-worker, told 911 dispatchers the victim may have been kidnapped.
Sloley, a hospital technician, called in sick. Blake-Robinson knew Sloley was having trouble with her ex-boyfriend, and coaxed the victim to tell her that he had kidnapped her.
The report notes a 23-minute delay took place between Blake-Robinson's call and when it was entered into a computer dispatch system.
When Ballard did so, it was noted a suspicious incident, not a possible kidnapping -- a classification decision that could have triggered a different response by police, the report said.
Blake-Robinson told investigators said she was frustrated by police's response to the call. "I wasn't taken seriously," the hospital employee said.
Ballard's supervisor Taunya Harris complained that when Ballard told Sloley he was creating unnecessary work for police, he was blaming the victim.
"It seems that he was chastising the victim in ... in lieu of trying to assist her," Harris told investigators.
Ballard wrote in his rebuttal that he was trying to pressure Sloley to give him her location.
"That's how I would talk to my kids almost," Ballard said.

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Woman kidnapped as child resurfaces after 18 years in (CA)

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Woman kidnapped as child resurfaces after 18 years in Calif

Samantha Young

August 28th, 2009

PLACERVILLE, Calif. — Joyous, miraculous news that a little girl kidnapped nearly two decades ago was found alive gave way Thursday to the horrifying details of how police say she has lived all those years: kept in captivity by a convicted rapist in his backyard and forced to bear two of his children.

Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11 in 1991 when she was snatched from her school bus stop, was locked away from the outside world behind a series of fences, sheds and tents in the back of a suburban home.

Her abductor, investigators said, raped her and fathered two children with her, the first when Jaycee was about 14. Those children, both girls now 11 and 15, also were kept hidden away in the backyard compound.

“None of the children have ever been to school, they’ve never been to a doctor,” El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said. “They were kept in complete isolation in this compound.”

Dugard, now 29, appeared at a parole office Wednesday with her children and the couple accused of kidnapping her. She was reunited Thursday with her mother, but the family was also learning that their smiling, blue-eyed, blonde ponytailed little girl had spent most of her life in captivity.

“She was in good health, but living in a backyard for the past 18 years does take its toll,” Kollar said.

The backyard compound had electricity from extension cords and a rudimentary outhouse and shower, “as if you were camping,” Kollar said.

Convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido, 58, was being held for investigation of various kidnapping and sex charges. His wife, Nancy Garrido, 54, was also arrested, and authorities said she was with Garrido during the kidnapping in South Lake Tahoe.

Garrido was on lifetime parole and his arrest raises questions about how closely parolees are monitored. But Kollar said a parole officer who had visited Garrido’s house previously had not noticed anything amiss — the compound was well concealed by shrubs, garbage cans and a tarp.

“You can’t see over the fence with the shrubbery and the trees. You can’t see the structures,” Kollar said.

Neighbor Helen Boyer, 78, described the Garridos as nice and friendly and said they cared for Phillip Garrido’s elderly mother.

“If I needed something, they would be the first I would call on,” Boyer said.

The case broke after Garrido was spotted Tuesday with two children as he tried to enter the University of California, Berkeley, campus to hand out religious literature. The officers said he was acting suspiciously toward the children. They questioned him and did a background check, determining he was a parolee, and informed his parole officer.

Garrido was ordered to appear for a parole meeting and arrived Wednesday with Dugard, who identified herself as “Allissa,” his wife and two children. During questioning, corrections officials said he admitted kidnapping Dugard. Investigators said he did not yet have an attorney.

Authorities said they do not know if Garrido also abused his daughters, but they are investigating.

Dugard’s stepfather, who witnessed her abduction and was a longtime suspect in the case, said he was overwhelmed by the news after doing everything he could to help find her.

“It broke my marriage up. I’ve gone through hell, I mean I’m a suspect up until yesterday,” a tearful Carl Probyn, 60, told The Associated Press at his home in Orange, Calif.

Garrido’s compound was located in Antioch, a city of 100,000 about 170 miles from her family’s home in South Lake Tahoe. The house was cordoned off with police tape as it was searched by FBI agents and the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department.

People who knew Garrido said he became increasingly fanatic about his religious beliefs in recent years, sometimes breaking out into song and claiming that God spoke to him through a box.

“In the last couple years he started getting into this strange religious stuff. We kind of felt sorry for him,” said Tim Allen, president of East County Glass and Window Inc. in Pittsburgh, who bought business cards and letterhead from Garrido’s printing business for the last decade. Three times in recent years, Garrido arrived at Allen’s showroom with two “cute little blond girls” in tow, he said.

In April 2008, Garrido registered a corporation called Gods Desire at his home address, according the California Secretary of State. During recent visits to the showroom, Garrido would talk about quitting the printing business to preach full time and gave the impression he was setting up a church, Allen said.

“He rambled. It made no sense,” he said.

Garrido would talk about holding events at UC Berkeley and mentioned the names of important people as if he knew them. Allen said he had no inkling of Garrido’s criminal record.

“We never thought anything bad about the guy,” Allen said. “He was just kind of nutty.”

Garrido gave a rambling, sometimes incoherent phone interview to KCRA-TV from the El Dorado County jail Thursday in which he said he had not admitted to a kidnapping and that he had turned his life around since the birth of his first daughter 15 years ago.

“I tell you here’s the story of what took place at this house and you’re going to be absolutely impressed. It’s a disgusting thing that took place from the end to the beginning. But I turned my life completely around,” he said.

In addition to kidnapping allegations, court records showed both Garridos were being held for investigation of rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and kidnapping someone under 14 with intent to rape. Phillip Garrido also faces allegations of sexual penetration.

The Associated Press as a matter of policy avoids identifying victims of alleged sexual abuse by name in its news reports. However, Dugard’s disappearance had been known and reported for nearly two decades, making impossible any effort to shield her identity now.

Garrido has a long rap sheet dating back to the 1970s.

He was convicted of kidnapping a 25-year-old woman whom he snatched from a South Lake Tahoe parking lot, handcuffed, tied down and held in a mini-warehouse in Reno, according to a November 1976 story in the Reno Gazette-Journal.

He also has a conviction for rape by force or fear stemming from the same incident, and was paroled from a Nevada state prison in 1988, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

In 1991, police believe he was trolling for victims in South Lake Tahoe in a Ford Granada and snatched Dugard from a bus stop outside her home. The case attracted national attention and was featured on TV’s “America’s Most Wanted,” which broadcast a composite drawing of a suspect seen in the car.

Her stepfather said he saw someone reach out and grab her before the car sped away.

“As soon as I saw the door fly open, the driver’s door, I jumped on my mountain bike and I tried to get to the top of the hill but I had no energy,” Probyn recalled. “I rode back down and yelled at my neighbor, 911!”

Probyn said his wife, from whom he is separated, was devastated by the kidnapping. He said for 10 years after the crime, she would take a week off work at Christmas and on the anniversary of the abduction and spend the time crying at home.

Probyn eventually lost hope that he would ever see his stepdaughter alive. In the interview he gave before details about her captivity emerged, he said he was struggling to understand why Dugard didn’t come forward earlier.

“I don’t know if she was brainwashed, I don’t know if she was walking around on the street, I don’t know if she was locked up under key for 18 years, I have no idea.”

Dugard retains custody of her children and was staying at a Bay area motel, authorities said.

At the Lake Tahoe Unified School District, employees huddled around television sets and computers to watch the news conference. Their tears of joy that Jaycee was alive became tears of horror and anger when details of her abduction and long captivity were recounted by police.

“Oh my God,” murmured Superintendent James Tarwater.

Resident Angie Keil said the Lake Tahoe community rallied around the family, holding candlelight vigils, and in the early days organizing searches.

“Jaycee has always been in our minds, all these years,” she said, her eyes moist with tears.

Associated Press Writers Paul Elias and Terry Collins in San Francisco, Gillian Flaccus in Orange, Calif., Brooke Donald in Antioch, Calif., and Sandi Chereb in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. contributed to this report.

Note: Cross posted from [wp angelfury] Mothers Global Justice Alliance.

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