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Woman kidnapped as 11-year-old surfaces after 18 years kept as
backyard slave in Calif.
10:29:04 PM (ET), Thursday, August 27, 2009 (PLACERVILLE, Calif.)
Joyous, miraculous news that a little girl kidnapped nearly two
decades ago was found alive gave way Thursday to the horrifying
details of how police say she has lived all those years: kept by a
convicted rapist in his backyard as a sex slave and forced to bear two
of his children.
Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11 in 1991 when she was snatched from her
school bus stop, was locked away from the outside world behind a
series of fences, sheds and tents in the back of a suburban home.
Her abductor, investigators said, raped her for years and fathered two
children with her, the first when Jaycee was about 14. Those children,
both girls now 11 and 15, also were kept hidden away in the backyard
compound.
"None of the children have ever been to school, they've never been to
a doctor," El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said. "They were
kept in complete isolation in this compound."
Dugard, now 29, appeared at a parole office Wednesday with her
children and the couple accused of kidnapping her. She was reunited
Thursday with her mother, but the family was also learning that their
smiling, blue-eyed, blonde ponytailed little girl had spent most of
her life in captivity.
"She was in good health, but living in a backyard for the past 18
years does take its toll," Kollar said.
The backyard compound had electricity from extension cords and a
rudimentary outhouse and shower, "as if you were camping," Kollar
said.
Convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido, 58, was being held for
investigation of various kidnapping and sex charges. His wife, Nancy
Garrido, 54, was also arrested, and authorities said she was with
Garrido during the kidnapping in South Lake Tahoe.
Garrido was on lifetime parole and his arrest raises questions about
how closely parolees are monitored. But Kollar said a parole officer
who had visited Garrido's house previously had not noticed anything
amiss _ the compound was well concealed by shrubs, garbage cans and a
tarp.
"You can't see over the fence with the shrubbery and the trees. You
can't see the structures," Kollar said.
Neighbor Helen Boyer, 78, described the Garridos as nice and friendly
and said they cared for Phillip Garrido's elderly mother.
"If I needed something, they would be the first I would call on,"
Boyer said.
The case broke after Garrido was spotted Tuesday with two children as
he tried to enter the University of California, Berkeley, campus to
hand out religious literature. The officers said he was acting
suspiciously toward the children. They questioned him and did a
background check, determining he was a parolee, and informed his
parole officer.
Garrido was ordered to appear for a parole meeting and arrived
Wednesday with Dugard, who identified herself as "Allissa," his wife
and two children. During questioning, corrections officials said he
admitted kidnapping Dugard. Investigators said he did not yet have an
attorney.
Authorities said they do not know if Garrido also abused his
daughters, but they are investigating.
Dugard's stepfather, who witnessed her abduction and was a longtime
suspect in the case, said he was overwhelmed by the news after doing
everything he could to help find her.
"It broke my marriage up. I've gone through hell, I mean I'm a suspect
up until yesterday," a tearful Carl Probyn, 60, told The Associated
Press at his home in Orange, Calif.
Garrido's compound was located in Antioch, a city of 100,000 about 170
miles from her family's home in South Lake Tahoe. The house was
cordoned off with police tape as it was searched by FBI agents and the
El Dorado County Sheriff's Department.
People who knew Garrido said he became increasingly fanatic about his
religious beliefs in recent years, sometimes breaking out into song
and claiming that God spoke to him through a box.
"In the last couple years he started getting into this strange
religious stuff. We kind of felt sorry for him," said Tim Allen,
president of East County Glass and Window Inc. in Pittsburgh, who
bought business cards and letterhead from Garrido's printing business
for the last decade. Three times in recent years, Garrido arrived at
Allen's showroom with two "cute little blond girls" in tow, he said.
In April 2008, Garrido registered a corporation called Gods Desire at
his home address, according the California Secretary of State. During
recent visits to the showroom, Garrido would talk about quitting the
printing business to preach full time and gave the impression he was
setting up a church, Allen said.
"He rambled. It made no sense," he said.
Garrido would talk about holding events at UC Berkeley and mentioned
the names of important people as if he knew them. Allen said he had no
inkling of Garrido's criminal record.
"We never thought anything bad about the guy," Allen said. "He was
just kind of nutty."
Garrido gave a rambling, sometimes incoherent phone interview to
KCRA-TV from the El Dorado County jail Thursday in which he said he
had not admitted to a kidnapping and that he had turned his life
around since the birth of his first daughter 15 years ago.
"I tell you here's the story of what took place at this house and
you're going to be absolutely impressed. It's a disgusting thing that
took place from the end to the beginning. But I turned my life
completely around," he said.
In addition to kidnapping allegations, court records showed both
Garridos were being held for investigation of rape by force, lewd and
lascivious acts with a minor and kidnapping someone under 14 with
intent to rape. Phillip Garrido also faces allegations of sexual
penetration.
The Associated Press as a matter of policy avoids identifying victims
of alleged sexual abuse by name in its news reports. However, Dugard's
disappearance had been known and reported for nearly two decades,
making impossible any effort to shield her identity now.
Garrido has a long rap sheet dating back to the 1970s.
He has a conviction for rape by force or fear and was paroled from a
Nevada state prison in 1988, according to the California Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation.
He was also convicted of kidnapping a 25-year-old woman whom he
snatched from a South Lake Tahoe parking lot, handcuffed, tied down
and held in a mini-warehouse in Reno, according to a November 1976
story in the Reno Gazette-Journal. A detective at the time said he
found the woman with Garrido in a warehouse that had rugs on the floor
and walls, pornographic magazines, a movie projector, a spotlight,
wine and hot water.
In 1991, police believe he was trolling for victims in South Lake
Tahoe in a Ford Granada and snatched Dugard from a bus stop outside
her home. The case attracted national attention and was featured on
TV's "America's Most Wanted," which broadcast a composite drawing of a
suspect seen in the car.
Her stepfather said he saw someone reach out and grab her before the
car sped away.
"As soon as I saw the door fly open, the driver's door, I jumped on my
mountain bike and I tried to get to the top of the hill but I had no
energy," Probyn recalled. "I rode back down and yelled at my neighbor,
911!"
Probyn said his wife, from whom he is separated, was devastated by the
kidnapping. He said for 10 years after the crime, she would take a
week off work at Christmas and on the anniversary of the abduction and
spend the time crying at home.
Probyn eventually lost hope that he would ever see his stepdaughter
alive. In the interview he gave before details about her captivity
emerged, he said he was struggling to understand why Dugard didn't
come forward earlier.
"I don't know if she was brainwashed, I don't know if she was walking
around on the street, I don't know if she was locked up under key for
18 years, I have no idea."
Dugard retains custody of her children and was staying at a Bay area
motel, authorities said.
At the Lake Tahoe Unified School District, employees huddled around
television sets and computers to watch the news conference. Their
tears of joy that Jaycee was alive became tears of horror and anger
when details of her abduction and long captivity were recounted by
police.
"Oh my God," murmured Superintendent James Tarwater.
Resident Angie Keil said the Lake Tahoe community rallied around the
family, holding candlelight vigils, and in the early days organizing
searches.
"Jaycee has always been in our minds, all these years," she said, her
eyes moist with tears.
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