Posted on 08/26/2016 2:01:11 PM PDT by ColdOne
A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 on Friday that Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped from South Lake Tahoe and held in Antioch by a parolee for 18 years, cannot hold federal parole officers liable for failing to supervise her captor.
The ruling was made seven years to the day she was rescued - on Aug. 26, 2009. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had already ruled on this case in March, but Friday's decision was an expanded version of their original opinion. Friday's opinion now becomes a legal precedent. Dugard had argued, unsuccessfully, that federal parole officers failed to do their jobs well before Phillip Garrido snatched her away from her family in 1991 in South Lake Tahoe.
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The government is accountable for nothing. We are accountable to government.
Yep.
They want to be in charge of everything they have to take responsibility. If that was a privatized parole dept they’d levy criminal charges besides the civil.
Which is EXACTLY why there is a 2nd Amendment. Problem is, the 2nd Amendment only works with a population that ain't too chickensh!t to use it, and the government knows this.
Well, the reporter got that pretty badly wrong. I wonder if they even bothered to glance at the opinion.
Hint: she wasn't suing the parole officers.
Government accountability through failure to defend, unfortunately, isn’t through courts. It has insulated itself there. It is through political action and through impeachment (if possible).
This isn't a lawsuit?
I suppose Congress could pass a private bill. This kind of thing has happened before on the state level, at least.
The suit wasn’t against the parole officers - it was against the American taxpayers. So she wasn’t seeking to hold the parole officers liable as the reporter suggested. She wanted you and me to pay.
Lemme guess, the lack of supervision wasn’t intentional.
Strange she never tried to escape when she had every opportunity.
That sounds like a quibble, when the claim was indeed against the “Federal Government.” When a petition is made for redress of grievances, is it really NOT what the Constitution itself says it is?
How was this documented?
That's what I plan on doing to survive to the next decade. Any reasonable judge knows how to rule in such circumstances.
Maybe get Tehran to file your claims might help a wee bit? Those settlements come in cash on jets.
I’m not sure why you are defending the reporter’s sloppy work. And yes, it makes a difference to me whether someone is trying to hold a culpable party responsible for their acts and failure to act, or whether someone is going after the taxpayers’ deep pockets.
Not every injury has a remedy. Justice here would probably have been to tie down the evil ******* and his sorry wife, and turned her loose on them with a chain saw.
And at least federal parole has largely been abolished.
Not sure what you mean. Her not trying to escape? She worked in their print shop with free access to the phone, internet and customers. Repeat customers knew her and talked to her. She came and went without her captors. The neighbors knew something was going and had called in reports but she never asked for their help. Even when they were eventually brought in, she lied to police about her identity.
We are responsible for our government. And we are all going to pay for a lot more than this.
Without looking, I am going to assume the perv in question didn’t escape, but was released on parole.
I don’t think that her issue with with the jailers, as much as it was with his supervision while on parole.
She was kidnapped at age 11 and brainwashed in a cult-like manner. The officers who questioned her said she had Stockholm Syndrome. Whatever she was free to do as an adult, his years-long crime had already occurred while she was a minor and when the police made several blunders in monitoring her kidnapper’s activity.
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