Kidnapped girl resurfaces after 18 years.

[kokopup]

When I read this I couldn't understand how he could live in a neighborhood like Antioch and not be discovered by neighbors. Housing in that area is very compact and yards are only separated by fences. I did a Google Earth of 1554 Walnut Avenue Antioch and it shows the tent city very clearly in the back yard. The reason more neighbors were not involved is because the property is flanked on two sides by commercial property. There was only one neighbor that had visual access to his tent city. I believe the police were still responsible for not catching this guy years ago.

[Daisy and Delilah]

I read earlier that the neighbor lady questioned the tents but her husband basically told her they should mind they're own business and not get involved. They could hear the kids outside playing.

I guess everyone has heard by now the story that this pervert is giving the police/public. He says he's turned his life around after the birth of the first daughter and what the public will discover about this story will be heartwarming. I'm not seeing anything heartwarming about it.

His own family says he's crazy.

I'll pray for the young mother and her two young girls. What a life they've had.

Has anyone heard what his wife's part was in this nightmare?

[Taz_Zoee]

One story I read said a neighbor did complain and the police went to the house saw the backyard, that looked small and "normal". But they didn't have a search warrant so they didn't investigate further.

I have no clue what role the wife played, but I feel she is just as guilty as he is. Also, his mother was living there as well. They had to have known this was going on.

[kokopup]

Has anyone heard what his wife's part was in this nightmare

Her role was co-conspirator plan and simple. She needs to fry right there with her husband.

[lvpets2002]

Oh I so agree.. They have said the wife admitted knowing about it.. They are thinking that she prob help her husband do the kidnapping in 1991..

Her role was co-conspirator plan and simple. She needs to fry right there with her husband.

[phesina]

Were these children even known to the authorities, i.e., did they have birth certificates or any kind of notification to the county and the state that they had been born? (I assume they were born at "home".. ?)

The reason I ask about this is, I first wondered: didn't the education authorities there send anyone around to find out why these kids weren't in school?.. and I assume even parents of "home-schooled" children need to produce some kind of documentation that it is going on and the kids are being educated, don't they?

Then I thought, if nobody else knew about the children at all, then there would be nobody official to wonder about their education or upbringing. Duh!

My God, these girls might as well have been living on Mars, the lives they've been living. This is all they know of "normal family life," since they've had no experience of any other way to live. And since Mother knows nothing of normal life since her pre-puberty days, she's not much farther ahead of her kids.

[Karen]

They were reportedly born there, in the compound, so no, no record of them, no birth certificate, no tracking, no educational system, no social workers - no one but that couple really knew they existed. It is sad.

[kokopup]

The police should have gotten a search warrant back when they were told of
children in the back yard. He was a registered sex offender so the police had
probable cause to get a warrant. They were just to lazy to do their job. Where
were the children when the parole officers visited.