It utterly amazes me that so many of you are spending valuable time voicing your opinions , thoughts and so forth on the world wide web instead of taking time out to criticize me than helping to locate a missing child(Hassani Campbell). Cheyvonne
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We are a group from all walks of life, many involved with law enforcement, social services, the legal arena, victim protection groups, missing children and adult groups, investigators, etc. This board is not for people to simply sit around and gossip. We are here to help solve crimes and especially to help locate missing children. That's the lifeblood of our group - the rights of children and their protection from any kind of crime. And, we have actually helped solve actual, real cases. I am very proud of the commitment and dedication of the people on this site to fighting crime and protecting the innocent.
People here (not hear, by the way), are extremely passionate about children and about eradicating those that hurt them. Thus, we can and do get very angry, very quickly, when someone has even the smallest appearance of supporting a predator.
Your statements on Anderson Cooper's show made thousands of ears perk up and millions of hearts begin banging in anger. I appreciate that you state you want to protect the girls, I appreciate that few know what it's like to be questioned by the media and I appreciate that no one knows what it is like to stand in your shoes. However, I myself was taken aback by your statements. I understand, as I am sure all of us here do, that the little girls in question are in a precarious position - caught between possibly loving the people they knew as their parents and the utter depravity of what those two monsters did to their mother, who they may have known as their sister. But I hardly see how speaking about them at all, in a public setting, can help them. I think I know what you are saying you want to say, and that is, "Let's not label them as sexually abused children, or sex slaves" because that may harm them horribly, espcially if it is not so. But, they were abused, by being raised by their own mother's abductor, rapist, captor and torturor, by being lied to about their history and being kept from society - no birth certificates, likely little medical attention from licensed physicians, little edcuation and little interaction with society at large. That is abuse. So regardless of whether or not your former associate raped and/or molested these girls, they have been horribly abused, are suffering immensely now as a result and the only people to blame for that are garrido and his wife.
You may be well meaning, but again, I hardly think that your statements to the media about two little girls who are currently surrounded by professionals and family dedicated to helping them survive this nightmare, are of any real help. They need privacy, not comments about them in such a public format by one who knew them. This is not a divorce. It is a crime of amazing abhorrence and magnitude and I highly doubt that you will ever have contact with those girls again.
