Where are you hearing or reading things that Jaycee claimed PG hadn't assaulted her in years? I only read that he claimed that he regained an interest in his wife after the birth of the second girl. I figure that's only because there were no more underage girls around since Jaycee was about 18 at that time.
To txsvicki: What I said is Jaycee said pg hasn't touched her in years. It is widely reported in the media that Jaycee has told LE that he hasn't touched her in years and that her daughters have not been molested. A google search can easily locate those articles.
As for another statement I made about Jaycee trusts her daughters with PG, much to my regret I didn't express myself well and used terrible choice of wording. When someone commented on that statement I decided to leave the issue alone without commenting and let it die - but since it still comes up I will respond.
I did not mean to suggest that she had a choice in the matter or anything like that. What I meant was she had been held captive by those people for 18 years and been subjected to brainwashing and Stockholm syndrome. Because of what she has been through, of which one of the effects is Stockholm syndrome, She has emotionally bonded with them and according to her stepdad, saw it as like a marriage. If the reports about her saying her kids weren't molested or that Garrido hasn't touched her in years are true, then she evidently does believe he didn't do that even though he has probably had opportunity (could she have stopped him?) and may well have slept with them for years as he has claimed, as far as any of us knows.
While some of us might understand that Jaycee has psychologically done what was necessary for her survival I would imagine that she considers her emotions, feelings, and beliefs are very real and as valid as anyone else's and that
SHE might very well feel resentment, hurt, or anger, that others view her "bonding" with the Garridos or any affection, sympathy, or attachment that she may well have for them to be some type of syndrome or brainwashing or somehow less valid or real than feelings a "normal" person would have. Along with that probably also comes guilt -as her stepfather has stated - and confusion.
I know that she has been through a horrible ordeal and dependent in ways on her captors and stockholm syndrome and brainwashing aree at work. And I also want to be sympathetic and supportive to her and not her have to go through any more pain and suffering or feeling like people are judging her.
The case of the Kampusch (spelling) woman in Germany has come up in threads about Jaycee. I don't remember exactly how she has put it, but she too has very ambivalent feelings and she has expressed that the reason she prefers not to go out in public much anymore is because it makes her feel like she has to be a certain way about what happened to her or be a certain way to satisfy other people and that it makes her less confident in who she is.
I could go on to try to clarify myself more or maybe I still come up short but I'll stop here