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catlover79 · 07-11-2011, 02:20 PM

http://www.fox8.com/news/nationworld...,7187188.story

In her first interview since being abducted at age 11, a poised Jaycee Dugard tells ABC News' Diane Sawyer about her harrowing kidnapping, repeated rapes and giving birth in a crude backyard shed.

By Martha Groves, Los Angeles Times

1:27 a.m. EDT, July 11, 2011

As 14-year-old Jaycee Dugard struggled in a crude backyard shed to deliver her baby daughter, the serial predator who had abducted and raped her stepped in to unwrap the umbilical cord that trapped the infant.

"She was beautiful," Dugard said of the child she birthed three years into her captivity in Northern California. "I felt like I wasn't alone anymore. I knew I could never let anything happen to her."

In an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer broadcast Sunday on ABC, Dugard, displaying remarkable poise and smiling often, provided chilling details about the 18-year ordeal she endured at the hands of her captors, an increasingly deranged parolee named Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, who aided the abduction and condoned his rapes.

Dugard's memoir, "A Stolen Life," to be released Tuesday, tells how the Garridos informed her she was pregnant when she was 13. At the time, she knew she was putting on weight and waddling, but she didn't know why.

A naive, toothy-grinned blond when she was taken captive at age 11 in 1991, Dugard is now 31 with brown, shoulder-length hair and impossibly young skin — the result, she said, of years spent with little exposure to the sun. Around her neck she wears a pine cone on a chain.

A pine cone, she told Sawyer, was the last thing she grabbed after Phillip Garrido shocked her with a stun gun and Nancy Garrido dragged her into the car as she walked toward the school bus on the street in front of her South Lake Tahoe home.

Phillip Garrido handcuffed her and raped her repeatedly, she said. She learned the link between sex and pregnancy by watching TV. She gave birth to two daughters and kept them in the hidden compound of sheds and tarpaulins, teaching them math and history despite her own limited education, until she was found in 2009.

Early on, her only companion was a spider she called Bianca. "I would live in my own world," she said. "Physical abuse was all I knew."

The Garridos pleaded guilty in April to kidnapping, raping and confining Dugard in their hidden backyard encampment and were sentenced last month to long prison terms. The plea deal spared the victim from having to testify. During the trial, it was revealed that parole officials repeatedly visited the Garridos' Antioch home but never ventured into the backyard, where they might have found Dugard, despite alerts by neighbors.

Phillip Garrido, 60, who was on parole for rape when he and his wife kidnapped Dugard, was sentenced to 431 years to life in prison. Nancy Garrido, 55, was sentenced to 36 years to life and cannot be paroled until she is in her 70s.

Throughout her ordeal, Dugard said, she thought always of her mother, Terry Probyn, who unbeknownst to Jaycee had launched a ferocious search for her child. At the Garridos' insistence, the captive Dugard denied her own name, coming up instead with an alias, Alyssa.

Why didn't she run? Sawyer asked repeatedly.

"It wasn't something I felt I could do," Dugard said. "There was no leaving."

In a defiant statement read by her mother during the emotional sentencing hearing, Dugard said the man who kidnapped her, held her as a sex slave and fathered her two children "stole my life."

When Dugard finally wrote down for police the name she had not used for 18 years, "it was like breaking an evil spell," she said. "It was like a piece of me came back." Officers told her: "You can see your mom now." Dugard told her mother by

"Come quick." "I'm coming," her mother replied.

martha.groves@latimes.com
Copyright © 2011, The Los Angeles Times

1990 UM fan · 07-14-2011, 09:36 PM

Jaycee Dugard's missing poster was in the background of an Unsolved Mysteries episode. Can't remember which one though (just thought I'd point this out).

Coffeeface · 07-21-2011, 03:05 PM

I would like to see this UM episode if Jaycee had been featured on UM. I saw the Diane Sawyer special. I can't imagine her relief on being found. I thought about buying her book and her pine cone charm (I collect pine cones), but I assume she will be well taken care of for the rest of her life. Good for her. She deserves it.

Supermariobros · 07-26-2011, 10:07 PM

Hi I would like to comment to those who question why Jaycee did not run away sooner. I unfortunately have some personal experience with this because I was taken by a 21 year old man when I had just turned 13. He was very very manipulative and would give me animals to use against me. He would hurt them in front of me to gain my compliance and threatened to harm my family as well. He drove me across several states to a pay phone to have me call home and tell my family that I had run away. (this was the 80s btw)
I did have chances to get away from him but was too scared of the consequences. He always carried guns and when I finally did get away from him he shot himself. I was asked by my family why I did not run sooner (was with him 2 yrs) A child's mind is not that hard to break. Some of the tactics that abductors use are similar to what is used on POWs to break them,and those are soldiers who are trained to deal with that as opposed to young naive teens who did not know such horrors even existed. I hope Jaycee and Shawn are able to find peace in their lives.

sffan · 07-27-2011, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Supermariobros

Hi I would like to comment to those who question why Jaycee did not run away sooner. I unfortunately have some personal experience with this because I was taken by a 21 year old man when I had just turned 13. He was very very manipulative and would give me animals to use against me. He would hurt them in front of me to gain my compliance and threatened to harm my family as well. He drove me across several states to a pay phone to have me call home and tell my family that I had run away. (this was the 80s btw)
I did have chances to get away from him but was too scared of the consequences. He always carried guns and when I finally did get away from him he shot himself. I was asked by my family why I did not run sooner (was with him 2 yrs) A child's mind is not that hard to break. Some of the tactics that abductors use are similar to what is used on POWs to break them,and those are soldiers who are trained to deal with that as opposed to young naive teens who did not know such horrors even existed. I hope Jaycee and Shawn are able to find peace in their lives.

I am so sorry for what you had to go through, I hope you are doing very well now.
As for Jaycee she was only 11 at the time of the kidnapping and by the time she was old enough to run away she was far too brainwashed to think of even trying to. I'm happy she is free now and I wish her and her family a happy, safe life.

tariqbutt · 03-17-2012, 10:16 PM

did anyone read jaycee's book? Is it worth reading? Does it add much new information or clear up questions about why she didnt run sooner ?

WishfulDreamer · 03-17-2012, 10:55 PM

I haven't read it, but I read an excerpt that said she was handcuffed and locked up for a few months. That did a number on her mental state. Nancy also manipulated her by pretending to be an ally and Phillip himself also was really manipulative. He would pretend he cared (i.e. by telling her that the handcuffs had fur so as not to hurt her) and told her that he had a sexual disorder so she was saving other people from being his victims. All around, there was disgusting psychological abuse on top of the physical abuse.

Tao · 03-23-2012, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by tariqbutt

did anyone read jaycee's book? Is it worth reading? Does it add much new information or clear up questions about why she didnt run sooner ?

I know this is an old thread, but I read the book a little while ago and it does seem to clear some things up.

In the beginning, she was locked up pretty tight. She was locked alone in a shed so much, she actually looked forward to seeing Garrido for someone to talk to.
Years in, she did have more freedom and was even permitted to use the internet (Garrido had her working from home on the computer). But by that time she had two little girls and didn't know how she would support them. Garrido had also done a number on her and by this time she believed the outside world to be a scary place.

He also stopped using her for sex, which probably lessened the imminent need to escape. I think it was mostly her kids that held her captive after that. She didn't know how she would support them. I think there also was a bit of a stockholm thing going on.

And the unknown can be scary. It was a scary thought running away with two babies out into the unknown as opposed to a place they were used to where they had food and shelter.

I'd recommend the book. It really details what she went through.

abigail7881 · 03-31-2012, 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by 1990 UM fan

Jaycee Dugard's missing poster was in the background of an Unsolved Mysteries episode. Can't remember which one though (just thought I'd point this out).

Her picture was in the background of a case. I can't think of the guy's name, but it was where the guy got poisoned by his wife with his protein shake, and the wife was being interviewed in the police station and you can see the poster of Jaycee in the background. The main thing I remember about his case was the wife saying "they got Jonathan!" when she went to the hospital to see her husband.

McGillicuddy · 04-01-2012, 02:38 AM

Not to get off subject, but that Garrido should have fried in the chair for what he did to this young woman, for 20 YEARS!

07-11-2011, 02:20 PM	#46
catlover79 God Bless Val Forum Addict Join Date: May 29, 2006 Location: Bewitched in Ohio Posts: 70,376	Jaycee Dugard speaks about 18 years as a sex slave http://www.fox8.com/news/nationworld...,7187188.story In her first interview since being abducted at age 11, a poised Jaycee Dugard tells ABC News' Diane Sawyer about her harrowing kidnapping, repeated rapes and giving birth in a crude backyard shed. By Martha Groves, Los Angeles Times 1:27 a.m. EDT, July 11, 2011 As 14-year-old Jaycee Dugard struggled in a crude backyard shed to deliver her baby daughter, the serial predator who had abducted and raped her stepped in to unwrap the umbilical cord that trapped the infant. "She was beautiful," Dugard said of the child she birthed three years into her captivity in Northern California. "I felt like I wasn't alone anymore. I knew I could never let anything happen to her." In an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer broadcast Sunday on ABC, Dugard, displaying remarkable poise and smiling often, provided chilling details about the 18-year ordeal she endured at the hands of her captors, an increasingly deranged parolee named Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, who aided the abduction and condoned his rapes. Dugard's memoir, "A Stolen Life," to be released Tuesday, tells how the Garridos informed her she was pregnant when she was 13. At the time, she knew she was putting on weight and waddling, but she didn't know why. A naive, toothy-grinned blond when she was taken captive at age 11 in 1991, Dugard is now 31 with brown, shoulder-length hair and impossibly young skin — the result, she said, of years spent with little exposure to the sun. Around her neck she wears a pine cone on a chain. A pine cone, she told Sawyer, was the last thing she grabbed after Phillip Garrido shocked her with a stun gun and Nancy Garrido dragged her into the car as she walked toward the school bus on the street in front of her South Lake Tahoe home. Phillip Garrido handcuffed her and raped her repeatedly, she said. She learned the link between sex and pregnancy by watching TV. She gave birth to two daughters and kept them in the hidden compound of sheds and tarpaulins, teaching them math and history despite her own limited education, until she was found in 2009. Early on, her only companion was a spider she called Bianca. "I would live in my own world," she said. "Physical abuse was all I knew." The Garridos pleaded guilty in April to kidnapping, raping and confining Dugard in their hidden backyard encampment and were sentenced last month to long prison terms. The plea deal spared the victim from having to testify. During the trial, it was revealed that parole officials repeatedly visited the Garridos' Antioch home but never ventured into the backyard, where they might have found Dugard, despite alerts by neighbors. Phillip Garrido, 60, who was on parole for rape when he and his wife kidnapped Dugard, was sentenced to 431 years to life in prison. Nancy Garrido, 55, was sentenced to 36 years to life and cannot be paroled until she is in her 70s. Throughout her ordeal, Dugard said, she thought always of her mother, Terry Probyn, who unbeknownst to Jaycee had launched a ferocious search for her child. At the Garridos' insistence, the captive Dugard denied her own name, coming up instead with an alias, Alyssa. Why didn't she run? Sawyer asked repeatedly. "It wasn't something I felt I could do," Dugard said. "There was no leaving." In a defiant statement read by her mother during the emotional sentencing hearing, Dugard said the man who kidnapped her, held her as a sex slave and fathered her two children "stole my life." When Dugard finally wrote down for police the name she had not used for 18 years, "it was like breaking an evil spell," she said. "It was like a piece of me came back." Officers told her: "You can see your mom now." Dugard told her mother by "Come quick." "I'm coming," her mother replied. martha.groves@latimes.com Copyright © 2011, The Los Angeles Times
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07-21-2011, 03:05 PM	#48
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07-14-2011, 09:36 PM	#47
1990 UM fan Unsolved Mysteries fanatic Senior Member Join Date: Jul 14, 2011 Location: United States Posts: 2,509	Jaycee Dugard's missing poster was in the background of an Unsolved Mysteries episode. Can't remember which one though (just thought I'd point this out).

07-26-2011, 10:07 PM	#49
Supermariobros Member First Time Poster Join Date: Jul 26, 2011 Posts: 1	Hi I would like to comment to those who question why Jaycee did not run away sooner. I unfortunately have some personal experience with this because I was taken by a 21 year old man when I had just turned 13. He was very very manipulative and would give me animals to use against me. He would hurt them in front of me to gain my compliance and threatened to harm my family as well. He drove me across several states to a pay phone to have me call home and tell my family that I had run away. (this was the 80s btw) I did have chances to get away from him but was too scared of the consequences. He always carried guns and when I finally did get away from him he shot himself. I was asked by my family why I did not run sooner (was with him 2 yrs) A child's mind is not that hard to break. Some of the tactics that abductors use are similar to what is used on POWs to break them,and those are soldiers who are trained to deal with that as opposed to young naive teens who did not know such horrors even existed. I hope Jaycee and Shawn are able to find peace in their lives.

03-17-2012, 10:16 PM	#51
tariqbutt Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Sep 10, 2008 Posts: 11	did anyone read jaycee's book? Is it worth reading? Does it add much new information or clear up questions about why she didnt run sooner ?

03-17-2012, 10:55 PM	#52
WishfulDreamer Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 01, 2009 Location: L.A. Posts: 3,865	I haven't read it, but I read an excerpt that said she was handcuffed and locked up for a few months. That did a number on her mental state. Nancy also manipulated her by pretending to be an ally and Phillip himself also was really manipulative. He would pretend he cared (i.e. by telling her that the handcuffs had fur so as not to hurt her) and told her that he had a sexual disorder so she was saving other people from being his victims. All around, there was disgusting psychological abuse on top of the physical abuse.

04-01-2012, 02:38 AM	#55
McGillicuddy Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Sep 28, 2002 Posts: 5,179	Not to get off subject, but that Garrido should have fried in the chair for what he did to this young woman, for 20 YEARS!