Kidnapped girl resurfaces after 18 years.

[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.

[caseysmom]

There is a picture of the backyard on sacbee.com, I know you have to register there to get the articles but the picture shows how horrid there living conditions were.

[Daisy and Delilah]

The reports I read said the wife was with him when the girl was kidnapped.

I know she's as guilty as he is. I had no idea his mother lived there too.

I guess what I really wonder is whether or not the wife was so scared of him she kept her mouth shut. Was she the type to just sit back and take orders from this creep or was she into this perversion along with him? In her mug shot, she looks terrified. I hope they hang both of them.

I can't help but wonder, everytime something like this happens, how many more people are there like this living in this country right now? Nobody knows anything about them.

[Asiel]

Can you imagine the pain and horror that poor girl went through giving birth alone and with this pervert probably delivering it? I shudder just thinking about it. Those squallid living conditions, who knows what she might have had to endure afterwards. As for the wife being too frightened I don't buy that, she could have gone to a neighbour during the night or anytime he was gone out. She's as guilty as him and deserves the same as he gets...death penalty is too easy, let them rot in a hole somewhere the way that girl and her kids did. I think the police messed up big time on this one. And the neighbour who told his wife to mind her own business is partly to blame, had she had his support to check things out those kids might have been freed a long time ago.
I can't see the girl or those kids ever adapting to a normal life and I hope they get the full support they need and deserve. Hard to believe in this day and age that we still let innocent people fall through the cracks........