Posted on 08/28/2009 6:27:46 AM PDT by kellynla
She was only 11 when they took her in 1991, a 4-foot, 6-inch fifth-grader walking to school in El Dorado County in a pink windbreaker and pink stretch pants.
For 18 years, police say, the convicted rapist and his wife kept Jaycee Lee Dugard hidden in their Antioch backyard, living in a tent or shed away from the legions of law officers searching for her. Over the years, authorities say, her abductor -- 58-year-old Phillip Craig Garrido -- impregnated her twice and she gave birth to two girls, now 15 and 11.
This is the horrifying ordeal law enforcement officials described today after revealing that Dugard, now 29, had been found safe after all these years and reunited with her mother this morning.
"She was in good health, but living in a backyard for 18 years does take its toll," said El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar.
The apparent end to a case that sparked national headlines began with a suspicious campus police officer at University of California, Berkeley on Tuesday. Authorities said the officer spotted Garrido with two young children on campus, where Garrido apparently had gone to distribute religious-themed literature, a frequent hobby of his. Upon questioning, the officer discovered Garrido was a parolee and contacted his parole agent.
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He looks like a frikking Sleestack.
Burn him.
Total Kudos to the suspicious police officer.
“Wait until you hear the story of what took place at this house,” Gallido told Gray. “You are going to be completely impressed.”
I seriously doubt it.
I can’t imagine the living hell Jaycee Lee Dugard has gone through for EIGHTEEN YEARS!
I hope everyone will remember her in your prayers.
Semper Fi,
Kelly
If the “religious literature” the slimeball was handing out was pro-izlam, the ACrimLU and CAIR would be all over this.
We live in a sick society.
....very slowly...
None of whom noticed that he was running a prison camp in his back yard.
I saw this in my morning paper, and apparently this sleaze and his wife are both responsible for this.
I cannot imagine what these parents have been going through. Their daughter has been missing since the fall of the Berlin Wall...
“A million deaths are too good for Yueh!!”
Lady Jessica Atreides, “Dune”
“People” like this guy and his miserable abetting wife make me wish we still had rough frontier justice. I would settle for “Inglourious Basterd” justice.
It’s too easy to criticize LEO’s charged with keeping an eye on this guy. How could they have known, but...
When they defend their actions by saying Garrido didn’t break his parole, that’s absurd. Kidnapping is certainly a violation of parole.
They could hhave been discovered sooner, at least.
So, at age twelve or thirteen, she was pregnant? Did these people deliver the babies themselves? Did he also sexually abuse the children born of his horrific crimes?
I deleted my suggested punishment, but it involved a valley at my place in the country, and lots of bullets.
Kidnapped woman hidden in CA backyard for 18 years
Neighbor Diane Doty said she could see the tents and often heard children playing in the backyard, the corner of which abuts her own backyard. She said she even suspected the children lived in the tents, but her husband said she should leave the family alone.
"I asked my husband, 'Why is he living in tents?'" she said. "And he said, 'Maybe that is how they like to live.'"
At least not favorably impressed.
More like horrified as to what that poor girl went through.
There is a cold case sitting out here regarding a girl named Sharon Marshall. That is one of the names her abductor made her use. Apparently he abducted her sometime in the early 70’s when she was about 3-4 years old.
Rasied her as his own all the while sexually abusing her. It is quite a remarkable story. He is sitting on death row now for a murder he committed in 1988 I think. He has never revealed where he got her from. He also married her in New Oreleans about 1989.
Sharon was killed by a so called hit and run driver in 1990 in oklahoma city.
I urge everyone to read Matthew Birkbeck’s book A Beautiful Child. You will be so moved by this girl’s story.
I hope one day they can give her name back to her.
After reading this story, I wonder how many Sharon Marshall’s and Jaycees there are out there somewhere being terrorized by these bastards.
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