Missing girl 'back from dead' after 18 yrs!
Amazing story..similarities to the happening in Austria..
The blonde, blue-eyed girl was 11 years old when she was abducted outside her home near Lake Tahoe, California.
After almost two decades the only hope that her parents had left was that one day her body would be found.
Last night that same girl, Jaycee Lee Dugard, was being reunited with her family as a 29-year-old woman after walking into a police station and revealing her identity.
After interviews and DNA tests it is thought that Ms Dugard’s story has been confirmed, bringing an extraordinary end to a missing person case that in 1991 attracted the same kind of media frenzy that the disappearance of Madeleine McCann generated more than two years ago.
The elation of her reappearance soon turned to horror as details emerged of the abuse she suffered. She had been forced to live in a garden shed for almost two decades, had been raped by her captor and gave birth to two children.
Philip Garrido , 58, a convicted rapist and the suspected father of her children, and his wife, Nancy, 55, are being held by police on suspicion of kidnapping to commit rape. Bail has been set at $1 million (£600,000).
Police said that Ms Dugard had spent the past 18 years as a virtual slave, sheltered from the outside world.
Her children, now aged 11 and 15, were also kept locked in the compound. “None of the children have ever been to school, they've never been to a doctor,” said Fred Kollar from the police department in El Dorado County. “They were kept in complete isolation.”
The Times
http://www.kcra.com/download/2009/0828/20591132.mp3
What a SICKOOOOOO!
I didn't drink the kool-aid! -- PM
This guy will get a taste of his own medicine when he gets to jail. All I can say to him is don't drop the soap (they'll probably get him though even if he doesn't drop the soap).
And I can't believe they gave him bail.
The bail is not an issue. Remember that he handed himelf in ad is now "justifying" his actions.
I don't think that a trailer trash redneck will be able to pay one million dollars or even the minimum required 100 K for a Bail Bondsman so its probably the same as refusing him bail.
for me this kind of crime should not be bailable.. and the wife, being accessory to the crime should also be given appropriate sanction by law as almost equivalent to actually committing the crime itself..
Yes, she's out of the kidnap hell, but the rehabilitation will take a lot longer..
Brit
I was reading the news in the New York post early this morning.... Really felt sad for the girl who had been through this for 18 years and the kids! Atleast she is out of this kidnap hell...
Can you Imagine being kidnapped at 11 and repeatedly raped, tortured, beaten,imprisoned, humiliated to the fullest extent of the word for 18 years, the sheer brutality of some so called humans will never seize to amaze me, though I am against the death penalty in general I believe that in cases like this they should make an exception.
she shut up on this! an 11 years old! sexslave!
Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.
she would have given birth at 14?
I just seen this in the paper. Its disgusting! Its like another Joseph Fritzl.
Yesterday, he said: "You're going to find the most powerful story coming from the witness, the victim - you wait.
"You are going to be completely impressed. It's a disgusting thing that took place with me at the beginning. But if you take this a step at a time, you're going to fall over backwards and in the end, you're going to find the most powerful, heart warming story."
in this modern times! And to think that they were allowed to bail? Justice, the American way (isolated, though?????)
"Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship"
Thank God she escaped in just a few years rather than 18 :-(
I didn't drink the kool-aid! -- PM
some people are pure evil..hope all are together n safe now..
Wow, sick people. Allah brings out the truth.
Poor kids. They'll never lead normal lives after this.