Tahoe Girl Missing For 18 Years: Alive! (Jaycee Lee Dugard )

[Echo]

I was being sarcastic when I said Michael Moore should do the movie.......

[biteme]

I was being sarcastic when I said Michael Moore should do the movie.......

I know I gave you a thank you
I just get carried away when I get moore and documentary in my head at the same time

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Jaycee Dugard, the Northern California woman who was kidnapped as a child and held prisoner for 18 years, kept a diary in which she wrote of longing for freedom and feeling both emotionally trapped and protective of the man charged with raping her, court documents filed Thursday show.

"It feels like I'm sinking. ... this is supposed to be my life to do with what I like ... but once again he has taken it away," Dugard wrote in an entry dated July 5, 2004, almost five years before she surfaced last summer with the two daughters fathered by her alleged captor Phillip Garrido.

"How many times is he allowed to take it away from me?" she wrote. "I am afraid he doesn't see how the things he says makes me a prisoner."

El Dorado County prosecutors quoted three portions of Dugard's diary in the court papers seeking a protective order barring Garrido and his wife Nancy from trying to contact Dugard or her children, now 12 and 15.
[...]

The documents also reveal new details about Dugard's captivity, saying she was kept in a building in a hidden compound inside the backyard of the Garridos' Antioch home for the first 18 months after her abduction then prohibited from leaving the yard for the first four years.

In another diary entry, dated more than two years after Dugard was snatched from the street outside her South Lake Tahoe home, Dugard wrote, "I got (a cat) for my birthday from Phil and Nancy ... they did something for me that no one else would do for me, they paid 200 dollars just so I could have my own kitten."

A decade later, however, Dugard wrote of the complex emotions surrounding her situation and Phillip Garrido.

"I don't want to hurt him ... sometimes I think my very presence hurts him," she wrote. "So how can I ever tell him how I want to be free. Free to come and go as I please ... Free to say I have a family. I will never cause him pain if it's in my power to prevent it. FREE."

In the court filing, Pierson said Dugard and the two daughters she had by Garrido when she was 14 and 17 had been instructed by the Garridos to run to the hidden backyard if anyone ever came to the door.

He also described a plan that Phillip Garrido allegedly hatched to stay in contact with Dugard if he was ever arrested. Dugard told prosecutors Garrido instructed her to request an attorney who could communicate directly with his "without law enforcement knowledge," the papers state.

Since Garrido's arrest, he has tried repeatedly to put the plan into action, Pierson said.

On the day he was arrested and Dugard's identity was revealed, Garrido advised her to get a lawyer. The next month, Garrido sent a letter to a Sacramento television station stating he wanted to reach Dugard "by attorney mail only."

In January, Garrido's lawyer wrote Dugard saying, "Mr. Garrido has asked me to convey that he does not harbor any ill will toward (Ms. Doe) or the children and loves them very much."

Dugard interpreted the "ill will" remark to mean she was not following the plan and that the letter was another way of manipulating her, the papers state.
[...]

The couple also are requesting permission to visit each other in jail, where they are being held on $30 million and $20 million bail, respectively.

Pierson opposed that request, too, blasting efforts by defense lawyers to portray the pair as the parental figures who deserve jailhouse visits so they can discuss the welfare of their "family."

"The defense utterly fails to recognize that Jane Doe and her children were not their 'family,' but were in fact captives - they were victims," Pierson wrote. "The unfortunate reality is that Ms. Doe and her children may not have fully realized they were captives and victims because the defendants controlled their reality."

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/nat...y/1240558.html

[Chaindrive]

*shudders*

I hope Jaycee never allows him to contact her ever again.

[silverfae]

March 5, 2010 6:05 p.m. EST
(CNN) -- Jaycee Dugard, who police say was kidnapped at 11 and held captive for 18 years, said she is "doing well" as she speaks out in a new home video.

"Hi, I'm Jaycee. I want to thank you for your support, and I'm doing well," Dugard says in the video released exclusively to ABC News, which posted excerpts of the video on its Web site Friday.

"It's been a long haul," said Dugard, "but I'm getting there."

The full statement and video, which show Dugard baking cookies with her mother and playing with her dogs, were scheduled to air on ABC News' "20/20" at 9 p.m. Friday.

It's the first public statement from Dugard since the arrests of her suspected captors -- Phillip Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy, 54.

The Garridos are charged with 29 felony counts in the kidnapping of Dugard, who was 11 when she was snatched from the street in front of her house in South Lake Tahoe, California.

She was 29 when found in August at the Garridos' home in Antioch, California, about 120 miles from her home. Garrido, a registered sex offender on parole at the time of his arrest, is accused of fathering two daughters with Dugard during her captivity.

Authorities say he and his wife held Dugard in a hidden compound behind their home for 18 years. The Garridos have pleaded not guilty.

Dugard now lives in seclusion with her mother, Terry Probyn, and Dugard's two daughters.

"We released this video so that you can see that we are happy and well -- when we have more to share, we will," Probyn says in the home video. "As a mother I am pleading for our privacy in this very public story."

Authorities maintain Dugard does not want to speak to Garrido or his attorneys and have tried to keep her location a secret.

I'll be interested to see this video tonight. I know this outcome was not exactly the best, but it's still nice to see someone who was abducted that isn't dead, and now has some chance at a real life.

[Valasca]

Man said to be biological dad wants to contact Jaycee Dugard

Kenneth Slayton wants to get a message to Jaycee Dugard, the California woman kidnapped as a child and held captive for 18 years.

Slayton would like to get together with Dugard and her two children on Father's Day, but he said he is being blocked from communicating with the 29-year-old he believes is his daughter.

When Dugard went missing in 1991, FBI agents investigating the 11-year-old's disappearance knocked on Slayton's door because the truck driver had been identified as her biological father.

Slayton said he was shocked by the FBI visit because until then he didn't know about Jaycee was his daughter.

The 64-year-old truck driver said he was shocked again last August when he heard a radio report his long-lost daughter had been found alive.

"I almost wrecked my truck," Slayton said.

But Dugard's return to her family did not include Slayton. He said he is desperately trying to change that.

"Since she has been found, I have done everything I could to make contact with Jaycee, but to no avail," Slayton said at a news conference Friday.

Doing everything included hiring celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred.

More at: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/18/...ex.html?hpt=T2

[62julietandvoid]

Man said to be biological dad wants to contact Jaycee Dugard



More at: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/06/18/...ex.html?hpt=T2

I read she didn't want anything to do with him right now. But reserves it for the future. Good call. I'd rather SHE collect any reward from this ordeal rather then him. Funy how pple come out of the woodwork when fame or money is blowing in the breeze.

[akika666]

it needs to be her choice and her getting a payday if there is one. she needs lots of time before huge things like this happen to her. dude needs to back the hell off.

[Whisper]

California lawmakers approve $20 million to settle Dugard claims
CNN) -- The California Assembly on Thursday passed a bill appropriating $20 million to kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard to settle her claims against the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, according to the chief clerk's office.

The bill passed on a 30-1 vote in the Senate and a 62-0 vote in the Assembly, according to CNN affiliate KCRA. Corrections officials entered into the settlement with Dugard, the station said.

Dugard vanished in 1991 at the age of 11. She was found in August 2009, living in a shed in the Antioch, California, backyard of Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender who had been on parole since January 1988. Investigators say Garrido fathered two children with Dugard during her captivity. He and his wife, Nancy, are charged with 29 felony counts in the case. Both have pleaded not guilty.

In a report issued in November, the state inspector general's office found the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation failed to properly keep tabs on Garrido or properly supervise the officers assigned to his case.

"While it is true that Garrido's California parole was never officially violated, our review shows that Garrido committed numerous parole violations and that the department failed to properly supervise Garrido and missed numerous opportunities to discover his victims," the report said.

Parole officers failed to investigate utility wires running from Garrido's house toward the shed where Dugard was held, to check out the presence of a 12-year-old girl during a visit or to act on information the report said "clearly" showed Garrido had violated the terms of his release, the report said.

Video: Kidnapping victim battles father Dugard, who is now 30, her mothers and her daughters had filed a claim saying state corrections officials failed to do their jobs, seeking psychological, physical and emotional damages, KCRA said.
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The language was inserted into a bill concerning claims against the state. Fuentes is chairman of the Assembly's Appropriations Committee, Long said. Every year as part of the budget process, the chair submits two bills for judgments against the state, Long said. It was decided that this would be the quickest way to get it through the Assembly, he said.

Officials thought the state might have a case if it fought Dugard's claim, but it wasn't worth the case going to a jury, Long said.

Because the constitutional deadline for an approved state budget has passed and California is in a new fiscal year without a budget, no appropriations can be made without Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's consent. Schwarzenegger has to request the bill be moved to his desk to sign it, Long said.

Garrido was paroled in August 1988 after serving 11 years of a federal kidnapping sentence. He also served a five-year term in Nevada for rape charges.

The November report from California Inspector-General David Shaw was limited to reviewing the actions of state parole officers in charge of monitoring Garrido from June 1999 until Dugard and her children were discovered. But Garrido was under the supervision of federal parole officers when authorities say he kidnapped Dugard in 1991, and they also "failed to detect Garrido's criminal conduct and his victims," the report says.

Garrido was only "properly supervised" for 12 out of the 123 months he was under California's supervision, "a failure rate of about 90 percent," Shaw told reporters in November.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/01/...ard/index.html

[Lizard]

Nice gesture, California. Where the hell do you think you're going to get that money, considering that your economy has left the toilet and has moved on to the sewer?

[Whisper]

Jaycee Dugard Writing Memoir

NEW YORK -- Jaycee Dugard, who survived being kidnapped at age 11 and held captive for 18 years, is writing a memoir.

Simon & Schuster announced Monday Dugard's book is scheduled to come out next year. Financial terms were not disclosed.

According to the publisher, the 30-year-old Dugard will write the currently untitled book herself and cover her life from her abduction in 1991 to how she is doing now.

Last week, a judge in California temporarily suspended criminal proceedings against Phillip Garrido, the man accused of kidnapping Dugard, citing worries about Garrido's mental state. Garrido faces 29 counts of kidnapping, rape and false imprisonment in the disappearance of Dugard.

Judge Douglas Phimister said he's seen behavior from Phillip Garrido several times in court that was troubling.

"When someone either wants to go to trial for crazy reasons, or not go to trial for crazy reasons, that person is not competent," Susan Gellman, Garrido's attorney, said Friday. "And that's what we're talking about."

A preliminary hearing had been scheduled to start Oct. 7.
[...]

http://www.kcra.com/news/25179023/detail.html

[biteme]

Nice gesture, California. Where the hell do you think you're going to get that money, considering that your economy has left the toilet and has moved on to the sewer?

IOU, same place they get the other billions they're in the hole.

[crimsonsorrow]

Phillip and Nancy Garrido raped Jaycee Dugard twice the day they abducted her from her South Lake Tahoe street, then repeatedly throughout her childhood years, and Phillip Garrido recorded the sex acts on video up through the early part of Jaycee's first pregnancy at age 14, according to details in an 18-count indictment released Friday.
The grand jury indictment, filed Sept. 21, will spare the victim from testifying at a preliminary hearing in the case against the couple. It replaces 29 charges that prosecutors filed within days of the Garridos' Aug. 26, 2009, arrest.

The revelation of the videotaped evidence is new.

Dugard, two El Dorado County investigators and Contra Costa County sheriff's Detective Garrett Schiro testified before the grand jury.

The indictment includes counts of kidnapping, forcible rape, and several counts of forcible lewd acts upon a child, enumerated by date range. It also includes a child pornography count and eight special allegations against the couple, as well as five more against only Phillip Garrido related to his past sexual crimes.

Garrido, 59, was a registered sex offender on lifetime parole for the 1976 rape of a South Lake Tahoe woman he kidnapped. He awaits an evaluation to determine his mental competency.

Nancy Garrido, 44, pleaded not guilty Friday. The couple remain jailed in Placerville.

Prosecutors accuse the couple of abducting Jaycee, spiriting her away to their home outside Antioch and holding her for years in sexual bondage in a hidden backyard compound of tents and sheds, where she raised the two girls that Phillip Garrido fathered.

Phillip Garrido had served 11 years of a 50-year federal sentence for the 1976 kidnapping and was under federal parole supervision when authorities say he and Nancy Garrido kidnapped 11-year-old Jaycee. In 1999 he fell under California's watch in a parole agreement with Nevada. In July, the Legislature approved a $20 million payout to Jaycee Dugard and her two girls, an admission of myriad failures to discover her and the girls, now 12 and 16.

This week, publisher Simon & Schuster announced that Dugard is writing a memoir, to be released next year.

http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_16234986

[Harley_Tech]

Couple Confess to Kidnapping Jaycee Dugard

Updated: Monday, 28 Feb 2011, 6:30 PM CST
Published : Monday, 28 Feb 2011, 6:30 PM CST

(NewsCore) - Phillip and Nancy Garrido, the couple charged with kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991 and holding her captive for 18 years, have confessed to the crime, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.
An attorney for Nancy Garrido said the couple confessed recently during an interview with detectives.
Dugard was found in August 2009, living in a tent behind the Garridos' home, with two daughters allegedly fathered by Phillip Garrido.
She was awarded $20 million from the State of California last year to settle her family's claim that Phillip Garrido was poorly supervised while he was on parole for a previous kidnapping and rape conviction.
A hearing to determine Phillip Garrido's mental competence had been scheduled to begin Monday, but attorneys in the case instead agreed to allow a judge to determine if he is competent enough to stand trial for the crime. Judge Douglas C. Phimister then ruled that Garrido was competent.
Phillip and Nancy Garrido are being held in El Dorado County Jail and face multiple charges that include kidnapping, rape and false imprisonment.

Read more: Los Angeles Times


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[Hellsbells]

Jaycee Dugard suspect to judge: I'm not guilty

(CBS/AP) SAN FRANCISCO - A convicted sex offender pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping and raping a Northern California girl when she was 11 and holding her captive for nearly two decades.

It came as a surprise after an attorney said Phillip Garrido had made a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty. It would have sent him to prison for the rest of his life.

Last week, an agreement was outlined during a closed-door meeting that attorney Stephen Tapson said he attended with prosecutors, the public defender representing Garrido and the judge presiding over the highly publicized case.

If convicted on all counts, the maximum sentence for Nancy Garrido would be 181 years, while Phillip Garrido could get 431 years, according to El Dorado County Deputy District Attorney James Clinchard.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/...g=breakingnews

[Whisper]

Jaycee Dugard suspect to judge: I'm not guilty

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/...g=breakingnews

I saw this as I was just coming in,WTF is he thinking??
Even his lawyer said "no matter what happens he will live in prison the rest of his life"
So why be a GOOF and put her and the rest of them through a fucking trial,this is where the freebees should fucking end.
with all the deficits out there why let him cost you guys even more??
just fucking leave the door open and let someone whack him

[princessgrandma]

I think he thinks that somehow, with a trial, he will gain the contact with Jaycee that he wants. It's going to be hard for that young woman to sit in a courtroom and face this man, but it will be exactly what he wants. Personal contact. He's a creepy sicko who controlled her for all those years and now he wants to try and exert that control again.

I think that, if he ever, by some off-the-wall chance, walks the streets again, he will be a danger to Jaycee and her children. He will stalk them relentlessly and never leave them alone unless he is locked away for the rest of his life. Jaycee is an adult now, but she was a child when Garrido abducted and raped her repeatedly over the years. He is an animal and should be caged as one the rest of his life.

[Hellsbells]

Husband, wife plead guilty in kidnap of CA girl

PLACERVILLE, Calif. – A convicted sex offender and his wife pleaded guilty Thursday to kidnapping and raping a Northern California girl when she was 11 and holding her captive for nearly two decades.

The pleas came as part of a surprise deal with prosecutors that will spare victim Jaycee Dugard and her two daughters fathered by one of the defendants from having to testify at a trial.

Phillip Garrido faces a maximum sentence of 431 years to life in prison after entering guilty pleas to 14 kidnapping and sexual assault charges.

His wife, Nancy Garrido, pleaded guilty to one count of kidnapping and one count of rape. She faces a maximum sentence of 36 years to life.

The couple both waived their right to appeal and were scheduled to be sentenced on June 2.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110428/...ped_girl_found

[TheMorningStar]

Details of the case involving Phillip and Nancy Garrido in the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard, have been released in the form of transcripts from Dugard's private testimony. While a judge removed 34 pages of graphic accounts, including statements of her sexual assaults, from the transcript, 157 pages were made public, which detailed Jaycee's kidnapping and captive life with the Garridos.

Jaycee: "It lasted until I got pregnant."
Question: "Do you know about how much length of time went by until you became pregnant?"
Jaycee: "Three years."
Question: "So this was going on for that entire -- about once a week or more?"
Jaycee: "Yeah."
Jaycee: "Things really changed. He said that he was eventually going to stop having sex with me and that, you know, he was just really trying to change and he wants all to be a family."

http://origin.news10.net/news/articl...imony-released

At his home, Phillip Garrido threatened to use the stun gun on her again and said he had vicious dogs that would attack her if she left the property, she testified.
Dugard was later locked inside a backyard studio without being allowed to leave for an entire year. During later years, she felt helpless because she didn't know where she would go if she escaped.
The document was released after the Garridos were sentenced earlier in the day.
Dugard did not attend the sentencing, saying she refused to "waste another second" in the presence of the married couple she said stole her life.

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world...18-964838.html

[VXIII]

Phillip and Nancy Garrido have started serving sentences in separate California prisons for their roles in the abduction and rape of Jaycee Dugard, the state's corrections department announced Thursday.

The married couple held Dugard captive for 18 years.

They pleaded guilty to charges of kidnapping and sexual assault in late April. This month a judge sentenced Phillip Garrido to 431 years to life in prison. Nancy Garrido was sentenced to 36 years to life in prison.

Authorities received Phillip Garrido on Thursday at California State Prison-Corcoran in Kings County. He will be housed in a protective unit for inmates "whose safety would be endangered by general population placement," the corrections department said in a news release.

Nancy Garrido began serving her sentence Wednesday at Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla.

Dugard was abducted from the street in front of her home in South Lake Tahoe, California, in 1991. She was 11 years old at the time of her kidnapping. Authorities found her in 2009.

During those years, the Garridos held Dugard in a hidden compound on their home's grounds in Antioch, California. She bore two daughters, fathered by Phillip Garrido.

A statement from Dugard -- now 31 -- read by her mother at the sentencing hearing earlier this month called the Garridos "evil" and described her kidnapping by them as a "sexual perversion."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/16/...html?hpt=ju_c2

[Kitty]

@Angelinfl

Jaycee Dugard interview on ABC tonight

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/abc-...id=abc_ss1_ptm

[princessgrandma]

Her book is one I WILL read. At least we know she will tell the truth.

I hope I can catch the interview tonight. I have so much compassion for this woman. To have gone through what she's gone through and live.... that makes her a rare commodity in itself... but she's also picked up and moved on with her children and tried to make the best life she can. You don't hear her whining about the unfairness of it all, though she was held captive for 18 years. I admire Jaycee Dugard so much.

I hope that she and her children can have a wonderful life together. I know she'll never forget the Garridos. That's impossible. But the best revenge is a life well-lived.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Very early into the Jaycee interview but I am MAJOR impressed with this young woman. As a mother, we should all aspire for such children. As a human, we should all aspire to such strength and outlook.

[Silvahalo]

Agree, very impressive. Jaycee has a strong spirit and strength about her, so obvious she's a survivor. She's grown into such a wonderful young lady. I bet her parents are so proud. I'll add that I just love Diane Sawyer. Classy, beautiful woman.

[Kitty]

I believe that Jaycee Dugard is the epitome of grace. People can really learn something from her.

[Valasca]

With the Jaycee Dugard case over, KTVU learned exclusively Monday that Hayward police recently interviewed Phillip and Nancy Garrido in prison about another Bay Area kidnapping that happened over two decades ago.

The department has waited two years to question the Garridos about the mystery of what happened to nine-year-old Michaela Garecht in Hayward almost 23 years ago.

The case still gnaws at Hayward police Capt. Darryl McAllister.

"This is one of those cases that nags at you throughout your whole career," said McAllister.

Last week, investigators got the opportunity to interview the couple about the Garecht case.

Police noted striking similarities between the two kidnapping victims.

"They could almost be sisters," said McAllister. "Both of the interviews lasted over two hours. Neither of the interviews revealed any direct link to the Michaela Garecht case."

Witnesses say a man kidnapped Michaela in front of a grocery store, whisking her away in a car resembling one Phillip Garrido had then. Sketches of the suspect bear a distinct resemblance to Garrido as he appeared at that time.

Investigators now know that convicted sex offender Garrido was living in a halfway house 20 miles away when the kidnapping took place.

Police are pouring over the taped interviews, rechecking facts before they re-interview the Garridos.

"We're not done yet," said McAllister.

And Hayward police say they won't be done until they find out who's responsible for the disappearance of Michaela Garecht.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/28876854/de...rss&hpt=ju_bn6

I totally believe they kidnapped and accidentally killed Michaela.

[Whisper]

I am just finishing up this book she wrote
and the things he did to her I dont think I would ever in a million years be able to come up with a punishment I thought fit the crime
He went way beyond sexual abuse,its fucking disgusting
also something I guess I overlooked or just didnt see anyplace was HIS MOM LIVED IN THE HOUSE
While she was in a tent his mom lived in that house with him and Nancy,
cant tell me she didnt wonder where these 2 babies that lived in the house came from and the woman living in the back yard??cmon

[Dakota Valkyrie]

idnap victim Jaycee Dugard on Thursday sued the federal government and accused it of failing to monitor the felon who grabbed her off a Northern California street as a child and held her for 18 years.

Her captor, Phillip Garrido, was sentenced in June to 431 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping and multiple counts of sexual assault, in a case that resulted from his arrest in 2009 and the stunning rescue of Dugard.

Garrido, who kidnapped Dugard in 1991 when she was 11, had previous federal convictions dating to 1977 for kidnapping and forcible rape in a case stemming from his abduction of a woman in the Tahoe area of Northern California whom he took to Reno, Nevada.

He was sentenced to 50 years in prison, but was released early on parole in 1988 after serving less than 11 years, Dugard's attorneys state in their lawsuit.

Her attorney Dale Kinsella said in a statement that from December 1988 to March 1999 federal parole agents "failed on numerous occasions to properly monitor" Garrido.

"We believe that the years of abuse experienced by Ms. Dugard are a direct result of the U.S. Parole Commission's colossal blunders in the supervision of Mr. Garrido," Kinsella said.
[...]

In particular, the lawsuit states that parole officers failed to follow up on accusations of sexual harassment made against Garrido in 1989 by a co-worker and other women at the nursing home where he was employed.

And Garrido tested positive for drugs multiple times during his first year-and-a-half under federal supervision, but that was not reported to the Parole Commission despite its "zero tolerance" for drug use by parolees, the lawsuit states.

The suit also says that parole officers, despite being required to conduct monthly personal check-ups with Garrido, failed to visit his home in 1990, 1992 and 1994.
[...]

Dugard's family received a $20 million settlement in 2009 through a state victims' compensation fund.

The California inspector general found the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation failed to properly supervise Garrido starting in 1999, when his parole case was handed over from federal officials to the state.

Dugard in her lawsuit seeks general damages in an amount to be determined according to evidence presented in court.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...78M03G20110923

[princessgrandma]

I really hope that she wins this suit. I was just dumbfounded when I read that the probation officers didn't make the on-site visits, or did some half-assed visits with one allowing himself to be laughingly distracted from further checking by Garrido and his wife. To imagine how close these people were to discovering that young woman and her children in the backyard, it makes me sick. How could they see all that crap in the backyard, tents and ramshackled buildings and so forth and not question or at least make an effort to look at a part of it all?

I'm thinking that what happened was like Stockholm Syndrome. She didn't scream or try to attract attention b/c if she failed to get a neighbor's or someone else's attention, there'd be horrible consequences to pay from the Garridos. She couldn't take that chance with two small children involved. She had her dreams, but her goal at that time was to survive, to be there for her children, to raise them as best she could.

To be witness to the the grace and courage that Jaycee carries herself with is amazing. Think about it. She was 11 years old. She basically raised heself and got herself to age 29 with no positive adult participation at all. It is awe-inspiring. There was definitely no positive adult anything from the Garridos. To see what Jaycee did with her life, what she did for her babies, the young woman she became is nothing less than coming extremely close to being a miracle coming to fruition.

Best wishes to Jaycee, her children and the rest of her family. You are safe now. He will never touch you again. Go on and live like there's no tomorrow, but take every tomorrow as a gift.

[biteme]

She has already won this one
Glad she will donate money if she can beat feds

http://www.fox40.com/news/headlines/...,1549898.story

Garrido’s case from 1999 until Dugard was discovered in 2009. Dugard reached a $20million settlement with California for the alleged negligence State agencies committed that resulted in the abuse to continue and Dugard to remain captive.