The more I keep thinking about Patricia Garrido, the more I wish we could bring more info on Manuel Garrido. To me, he's just as central in understanding Phillip Garrido, especially since a father is an incredible role model for a son, good or bad. But we hardly know anything concrete on the father.
@yosande: And? You said you don't believe it's a fact and yet you don't offer anything else. I said that because whether it's psychologists who study child rapists or the FBI, the same conclusion is made: almost exclusively child rapists, regardless of gender, were raped as children; the few who are not, at least, witness it as children. How else do you think they come to rationalizing raping a child? I'm being genuine here. How do you think they do it, if they weren't raped as children or witnessed it as children? Do they become child rapists as adults all of sudden? And what percentage of the pedophile population do you think that is? Enough to make my initial statement on the background of child rapists somehow void?
Any child abuser learns the behavior when he/she is a child themselves.
Why do you think they have a need to rationalize their behavior?
No, I do not think they become child rapist as adults all of a sudden.
PG's behavior started as a teen, iirc, and imo, people cross over a line, then move their boundaries further and further into depravity until they erase the line, or boundary all together.
It is my opinion that a child who is raped is more likely to become a child advocate, not a child rapist.
Imo, to say that a child rapist was raped as a child means one needs to believe them when they use that excuse for their behavior, and it also leans toward accepting/excusing aka enabling it. jmo fwiw.
I know a young man who was raped as a child several times by a teen, who was a monster, and had no moral compass at all.
This monster of whom I speak was not raped as a child, but he was abandoned by his mother when he was an infant, and to say his father was an enabler would be an understatement.
He did what he did because he could, and he knew their would be no consequence for his actions, and in fact he would profit from it by causing his dad and his new stepmom to seperate, and he was correct, as that is exactly what happened.
PG, imo, because of his crimes, enjoyed the "risk" of getting caught.
I doubt very much that he was raped when he was a child.
I do think that to say his mother was/is an enabler is an understatement and as a child he was probably pushing the limits, and winning from the get go. It is likely he was rarely if ever disciplined, or taught that there was a negative consequence for inappropiate behavior.
jmo, fwiw.
