You seem to be obsessed with sex and children. Maybe you need to talk
it out with a shrink before you harm some poor kid.
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:15:11 -0600, jjnhgb <jjgbnjk@fvg.com> wrote:
>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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