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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...

The complaint, filed in a San Francisco U.S. District Court, has a sturdy claim. Just three years before Dugard was kidnapped, Garrido was released early from prison after being convicted of kidnapping and forcible rape. Parole officers who should have been monitoring Garrido while he was on parole didn’t report him for testing positive multiple times for drug and alcohol abuse. Federal authorities also ignored repeated reports of sexual misconduct by Garrido, visited his home only a dozen times in a decade, and never found Dugard captive in the backyard. Now, the California inspector general has also confirmed that the...

PLACERVILLE -- Phillip and Nancy Garrido were sentenced to virtual life terms in prison Thursday morning shortly after Jaycee Dugard exhorted the pair through her mother, capping a whirlwind of a case that captured hearts and imaginations worldwide after Dugard surfaced and revealed she spent two decades as the prisoner of a twisted sexual bondage and captivity scheme outside Antioch. Phillip Garrido, 60, received a sentence of 431 years to life in prison, while Nancy Garrido, 55, was sentenced to 36 years to life in prison, all in accordance with their guilty pleas last month in a El Dorado County...

Dugard was insulted when the lawyer for Nancy Garrido said his client deserved compassion because she acted as Dugard's mother during her ordeal and was under the control of her husband, co-defendant Phillip Garrido, El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson told reporters.

California’s state legislature approved a $20 million settlement for kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard Thursday, The Sacramento Bee reported. Dugard was kidnapped as an 11-year-old near her home in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., in 1991 and held captive for 18 years by Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy. She was kept in a secret backyard prison and bore two of Garrido’s children before being discovered in August 2009. Dugard, now 29, and her family filed claims against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in February alleging it failed to monitor Garrido, a convicted sex offender.

ANTIOCH, Calif. – Jaycee Dugard and her family have taken the first step to sue the state of California for lapses officials made while she and her daughters were allegedly held captive by a convicted sex offender. Dugard, her two daughters and her mother, Terry Probyn, have each filed claim forms against the Department of Corrections, Rachel Wall, a spokeswoman for the state's Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board, said Friday. Dugard's spokeswoman, Nancy Seltzer, said the family members haven't decided whether they'll file a lawsuit.

Here is a video report showing the first photo released of Jaycee Dugard since she was freed from her 18-year ordeal of being held hostage after being kidnapped at the age of 11 years old. The photo is published in "People Magazine." Matt Lauer interviews Larry Hackett from "People Magazine." . . . (VIDEO)

First Photo: Jaycee Dugard As She Is Now [Pic in URL] The kidnap victim looks happy, healthy in People magazine spread Less than two months after the kidnap victim was reunited with her family after 18 years, the California mother of two smiles on the cover of People magazine. Oct. 14: People magazine’s Larry Hackett reveals a recent photo of Jaycee Dugard, the California woman who was kidnapped and held hostage for 18 years. She also wrote a statement for the magazine. Oct . 14, 2009 The hair is darker, bordering on brown, but Jaycee Dugard’s clear blue eyes still...

After being held against her will for 18 years, much of it in a backyard hell straight out of a horror film, Jaycee Dugard wants the world to know: "I'm so happy to be back with my family," she tells PEOPLE.

Jaycee Dugard, two months after resurfacing from 18 years in captivity, has released her first personal statement to People magazine, along with photos of herself as an adult. I'm so happy to be back with my family," she told the magazine. "Nothing is more important than the unconditional love and support I have from them."

After being held against her will for 18 years, much of it in a backyard hell straight out of a horror film, Jaycee Dugard wants the world to know: "I'm so happy to be back with my family," she tells PEOPLE.

In a handwritten jailhouse letter full of misspellings, accused rapist and kidnapper Phillip Garrido expressed concern for his alleged victim, Jaycee Dugard, saying he believes her "civil rights have been clearly violated." Accused kidnapper and rapist Phillip Garrido wrote in a jailhouse letter that Jaycee Dugard's civil rights have been violated. In it, Garrido wrote that Dugard's "free speach [sic] rights are being violated, also she has been repeatedly denied access to have an attorney present during questioning." Garrido urged Gray to "take this to a privet [sic] attorney who will look this matter over for her best interest."

This is a link to a picture of Jaycee Dugard http://mwcnews.net/images/stories/USA3/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/Jaycee-Dugard-b.jpg

Note: 1. Link to Jacyee Dugard Adult Photograph 2. The photo is an alleged photograph of her. The kidnapper Phillip Garrido used to run a printing business (Printing For Less) and the picture reportedly was on the publicity material for that business. 3. Can not independently verify the accuracy or authencity http://www.anorak.co.uk/media/first-shock-pictures-of-jaycee-dugard-at-disney.html

The talk show queen told “The Insider” this week that the girl kidnapped 18 years ago is one of the rare interviews that she cares about landing. “I want that interview,” Oprah told Samantha Harris. “Obviously, like everybody else in this business, I have ‘my people’ working on that. Now, this is the truth…I really don’t care about getting interviews first and all that stuff….Really, truly, I don’t play that game. I feel like if somebody wants to talk to me, they will talk to me. If they don’t want to talk to me and they want to talk to...

ANTIOCH, California (BNO NEWS) -- The bone fragment found in the backyard of Phillip Garrido's neighbor is likely human, a police spokesman said on Tuesday. Phillip Garrido and his wife are both suspected of the kidnapping of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991, before she was freed more than 18 years later. Officials had earlier said they had found a bone fragment on the property of Garrido's neighbor, but were not immediately able to say if it was human or animal. Police began searching the property of his neighbor because Phillip once lived on the property when he worked as...

Jaycee Lee Dugard: new photos released Previously unseen photographs of Jaycee Lee Dugard have been released by her aunt. By Nick Allen in Antioch 03 Sep 2009 [Pics in URL] The images were distributed at a press conference by Tina Dugard who revealed how Jaycee taught her two daughters how to read and write in captivity using the internet Photo: AP The photographs show a smiling Jaycee as a three-year-old ballerina, dressed as punk rocker, and attending Los Angeles' Rose Parade in 1991. The images were distributed at a press conference by Tina Dugard who revealed how Jaycee taught her...

Aunt Tells Of Dugard Family Joy Tina Dugard says the two young girls are educated and bright The first details have emerged of how the Dugard family is faring since the release of Jaycee Lee, who was abducted and held for 18 years in California. Aunt Tina Dugard told the Orange County Register there was a lot of laughing, crying, holding hands and reconnecting. She said Jaycee Lee's two girls "know what's going on" but had not been allowed to watch coverage of the case.

Phillip Garrido, accused of kidnapping an 11-year-old girl in 1991 and imprisoning her in a shed for nearly two years, may have started his spree of sexual crimes as far back as 1972, police said. Garrido, then 21, gave a 14-year-old girl drugs and then sexually assaulted her multiple times, Antioch Police Lt. Leonard Orman told NBC's The Today Show on Thursday. The victim refused to testify about the incident, and the charges against Garrido were dropped, Orman said. Officials believe this is the third victim that Garrido has raped in the last 37 years -- and they're looking for...

Nancy Garrido, the wife of Jaycee Dugard's accused kidnapper, has a serious legal problem in her defense: She apparently kept the girl prisoner for a five month period while her husband Phillip Garrido went to prison for violating his parole, her lawyer acknowledged today. SNIP One of the many legal dilemmas Nancy Garrido faces is what she did during five months when Phillip was serving a prison sentence for violating his parole in 1993, just two years after Dugard was snatched off a school bus stop. Dugard was still only 13 when Phillip Garrido was returned to prison. But Nancy...