On June 10, 1991, Jaycee Lee Dugard left home for school as usual. As she stood at the bus stop, a car pulled up next to her. 11-year-old Jaycee thought she needed guidance. The driver pulled out the taser. The girl woke up on the floor of the car. Nancy Garrido was holding her. The car was driven by Philip Garrido, a pedophile convicted of sex crimes. The girl remembered little from that day. But the kidnapper’s words stuck with her. “I don’t believe we made it,” he said.
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Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped when she was 11 years old. “I had the scariest moments of my life”
The kidnapping was witnessed by the girl’s father. He failed to catch up with the car. The couple drove the 11-year-old to a house 300 km away from her family. For 18 years, Jaycee Dugard was imprisoned in a soundproof building in the back garden of the Garrid house. On the day of the abduction, Philip handcuffed her and threatened that if she tried to escape, the dogs waiting in the garden would tear her apart. “I had the scariest moments of my life. I was so lonely – years later.
The police regularly visited the kidnapper’s house. Despite this, for years no one became suspicious
Not long after Philip Garrido raped her for the first time. Forbade using her real name, he began calling her Alyssa himself. At the age of 13, she gave birth to her first child. She gave birth when she was alone. Previously, she had watched pregnancy and childbirth programs on a small TV. Three years later, she gave birth to a second daughter. She was a sister to her children, she taught them to read and write herself. She was afraid to run away for fear of her daughters’ lives. But it gave her the will to fight. Philip’s wife, Nancy, seemingly cared for the girl, tried to surround her with care. Seemingly, because Jaycee herself mentioned that she was no different from her husband.
Thousands of people searched intensively for the girl, her parents did not lose hope for years. Worse, she regularly visited the Garrid home. Nancy and Philip met in prison, on the day the girl was kidnapped, the man was on parole. Although the curators visited him often, none of them noticed the sheds and tents at the back of the house.
She spent 18 years in a shed at the back of her kidnapper’s house. “I am the survivor”
In 2009, 18 years after the kidnapping, Philip Garrido traveled with Nancy, Jaycee and her two daughters to the University of California, Berkeley, where he was scheduled to perform at a religious rally. However, his behavior led to him being sent to the station. There, the 29-year-old Jaycee aroused the suspicions of the officers. The woman eventually told the police her real name. After 18 years in captivity, she returned to her family home. In the lawsuit for numerous negligence of the services, she won 20 million dollars. She has written two books, and she also helps people who have gone through a similar hell.
To a man who used and molested me, I was an object. I couldn’t speak for myself. I became a mother. I was forced to pretend that I was the sister of my own daughters. I don’t consider myself a victim. I am the one who survived
– in the book in which she told her story.
Phillip Garrido was sentenced to 431 years in prison. Nancy Garrido was sentenced to 36 years in prison.
Source: Gazeta
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