Diana Sawyer interviewing Jaycee Dugard
Courageous survivor, Jaycee Dugard, has penned an autobiography entitled "A Stolen Life" chronicling her kidnapping, rape and impregnation as a young girl, by convicted sex offender, Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy Garrido. In released excerpts of the book, Dugard described her abduction at the age of 11, stating she was kidnapped at a bus stop near her home and when she tried to run, Garrido used a stun gun to incapacitate her.
ABC's Diane Sawyer and Jaycee Dugard
Garrido criminally kept Dugard as a slave in his ramshackle backyard, repeatedly forcing himself on her and employing brainwashing techniques used by cults to control people, in attempts at making her docile. He also viciously threatened her with dogs, if she ever tried to leave the backyard. His is the profile of a satanic monster.
Terry Probyn (left) with Jaycee Dugard and her children (Photo Credit: Red Think Media and Wenn)
Dugard stated the day after Garrido abducted her, he showered with her, as she cried uncontrollably. This was also the year he began raping her, during crystal meth induced psychotic episodes. As a result of the rapes, Dugard fell pregnant at age 13. The terrified young girl gave birth in squalor, in the backyard, without the benefit of painkillers.
Jaycee Dugard's book "A Stolen Life"
Dugard's children were forced to call Garrido's equally insane wife Nancy, "mommy" so she "would not feel left out" of his insane, perverse scheme. Garrido began raping Dugard again, shortly after the birth of her first daughter, which led to another pregnancy.
31-year-old Jaycee Dugard in 2011
On June 2, 2011, Garrido was sentenced to 431 years in prison, as a means of ensuring he will not see freedom again nor have the opportunity to inflict the aforementioned horrors on anyone else. His wife Nancy Dugard was given 36-years to life in prison.
Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy in court. Pedophiles are treated very poorly in prison.
The State of California awarded Dugard a $20,000,000 legal settlement, for its failures in detecting that parolee Garrido, had abducted her, but it will never compensate for the terrible things she endured. I pray she will find the happiness that eluded her when she was abducted for 18-years, due to the heinous acts perpetrated against her by a criminal that never should have been free.
