What drives so many wives to kidnap sex slaves for their husbands in a robot-like manner?

The pattern repeats over again - wives married for many decades kidnapping pubescent girls to be used as sex slaves and abused, tortured, or starved by their husbands. The wives lure teenage girls to be bound, shackled, beaten, sexually abused, and sometimes impregnated by their husbands in a kind of plural marriage bond.

Often the wife is described by neighbors as robot-like in demeanor, lacking in emotion. Why do these wives do those acts for their husbands? The most evil of the kidnappers eventually murder the young girls for seemingly few reasons. But the women end up getting lighter sentences than their husbands, in many cases.

They never seem to put themselves in the place of the young girl to even imagine the fear and pain the girl might be experiencing. Are all these women sociopaths with no conscience? Or have they been beaten into submission by their spouses? Why do so many women want to procure for their husbands the perfect sex slave?

Examples of convicted women include Charlene Williams of Sacramento, who, according to a September 6, 2009 article in the Sacramento Bee, "Women's sex crime role again an issue," lured six teenage girls to their deaths as "her husband demanded the perfect sex slave." See the Sacramento Bee's online article "Women's role in sex crimes resurfaces as issue."

Other convicted women, named in the Sacramento Bee article include Michelle Lyn Michaud, of Sacramento, who customized "curling irons" to help her male friend torture and murder a 22-year old student that she abducted from a neighborhood street.

In Utah, another wife is Wanda Eileen Barzee, who had been accused of aiding her husband in the kidnapping of 14-year old Elizabeth Smart at knifepoint from her Salt Lake City, UT bedroom so her husband could marry one more wife to add to his plural wives sancturary.

In the Elizabeth Smart case, the woman charged with her role in the kidnapping was found incompetent to stand trial and has been put on medication. There will be another competency hearing of Barzee's estranged husband, Brian David Mitchell.

Finallly, Nancy Garrido of the San Francisco Bay area is being accused of grabbing the 11-year old Jaycee Dugard child into the car her husband allegedly had been driving in 1991. Garrido has been married to her husband for about 30 years. She married her husband while he was serving a prison sentence.

Why do women marry men that already are in prison facing long terms for sexual and physical abuse of women? And why do they procure sex slaves or additional wives for their husbands through kidnapping female children or female teenagers?

The media seems to be reporting more cases of abuse of female children by the wives of deranged men. The part the wives play in the kidnapping is to procure the children or teenagers to be sex slave common law wives to their husbands, often for the purpose of giving their husbands more children or torturing and beating the so-called sex slave.

The question for psychologists and psychiatrists is to find out why so many women seem to want to kidnap and torture other women's female, and sometimes also male children. Are the women abused by their husbands to the point they appear robot-like? Or are the women disturbed in the first place for making contact with and marrying men in prison facing long-term sentences for rape, drugging, and beating young girls?

How are they meeting these men--through ads in the tabloids? The men in prison aren't on the Internet. But they're allowed to place pen-pal wanted ads in newspapers, particularly tabloids.

On the other hand, these wives that kidnap young girls to be tortured, sexually abused, impregnated, or otherwise kept in bondage as common-law wives of their own husbands, are seen as victims themselves.

The problem juries have with that scenario is that if the woman is an adult, she has a responsibility to protect a child in danger. If the woman purposely kidnaps a young girl to be her husband's sex slave, she is no longer protecting the child from her husband.

Even if she feels she can't escape her own husband's beatings, juries want to see those women make the decision and the break from their husband's bondage if there's a stranger's child involved. Juries will want to know why she didn't protect the child and turn her husband in.

Most battered wives may stay because they feel they can't take care of themselves without a husband to financially and emotionally support them. But when their child is being abused, something inside kicks in, and the women finally leave with their children to a shelter or safe house, even if they have to be homeless.

The final straw that makes them leave is when they see their child or any other child in the household in danger of being abused just like they are being abused. When the women no longer protect any child under their own roof, that's when the juries tend to be less sympathetic to the adult women.

Prosecutors could offer more lenient treatment in exchange for the wife testifying against her husband or partner in the abuse or kidnapping of a child for use as a sex slave or second wife. The outcomes may be mixed in court.

In the case of Charlene Williams, according to the Sacramento Bee article, she was released from prison in 1997. But her serial killer hsuband, Gerald Gallego died of cancer in 2002 at a prison hospital in Nevada. The jury had sentenced her husband to death after Williams told prosecutors the details of the girls' murders between 1978 and 1980. The spree left 10 people dead.

What Charlene Williams did admit to prosecutors is that "she had trolled for sex slaves" for her husband. She lured four teenage victims from Sacramento area shopping malls.

Michelle Lyn Michaud, also from Sacramento, was sentenced to death for her role in the 1997 kidnap, rape, and murder of a 22-year old student. Defense attorneys portrayed her as a battered wife under total control of her boyfriend, James Daveggio, who also was sentenced to death.

Why do women commit crimes out of fear of their partner's beatings? Why do women allow themselves to be controlled by a boyfriend? Are they controlled to the point where they'd commit crimes rather than seek a boyfriend that doesn't hurt other women? What makes women marry sociopaths?

Why does the public still believe that women aren't leaders in sex crimes? Courts punish the man, most typically. The women are seen as accomplices in love with their man so much that they want to procure more wives or sex slaves to make their husband happy or pleased that they finally did something good. As you study the cases, the women usually get lighter sentences than the men, in numerous, but not all, cases.

Some women testify against their husbands or boyfriends for leniency. The big question is what motivates these women? Each woman is different. For further information, read the article in the Sacramento Bee, "Women's sex crime role again an issue." Or online, see the Sacramento Bee's article "Women's role in sex crimes resurfaces as issue."

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