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Lifestyle => Tha G-Spot => Topic started by: OG Hack Wilson on August 27, 2009, 06:49:49 PM
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Woman kidnapped as child resurfaces 18 years later:
PLACERVILLE, Calif. – Joyous, miraculous news that a little girl kidnapped nearly two decades ago was found alive gave way Thursday to the horrifying details of how police say she has lived all those years: Kept by a convicted rapist in his backyard as a sex slave and forced to bear two of his children.
Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11 in 1991 when she was snatched from her school bus stop, was locked away from the outside world behind a series of fences, sheds and tents in the back of a suburban home.
Her abductor, investigators said, raped her for years and fathered two children with her, the first when Jaycee was about 14. Those children, both girls now 11 and 15, also were kept hidden away in the backyard compound.
"None of the children have ever been to school, they've never been to a doctor," El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said. "They were kept in complete isolation in this compound."
Dugard, now 29, was reunited Thursday with her mother, but the meeting was tempered with sadness as the family learned their smiling, blue-eyed, blonde ponytailed little girl had spent most of her life as a virtual slave.
"She was in good health, but living in a backyard for the past 18 years does take its toll," Kollar said.
The backyard compound had electricity from extension cords and a rudimentary outhouse and shower, "as if you were camping," Kollar said.
Convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido, 58, was charged with various kidnapping and sex charges. His wife was also arrested, and authorities said she was with Garrido during the kidnapping in South Lake Tahoe.
Garrido was on lifetime parole, and his arrest raises questions about how closely parolees are monitored. But Kollar said a visitor to Garrido's house would not notice anything was amiss — the compound was well concealed by shrubs, garbage cans and a tarp.
Authorities said they do not know if Garrido also abused his daughters, but they are investigating.
The case broke after Garrido was spotted Tuesday with two children as he tried to enter the University of California, Berkeley, campus to hand out religious literature. The officers said he was acting suspiciously toward the children. They questioned him and did a background check, determining he was a parolee, and informed his parole officer.
Garrido was ordered to appear for a parole meeting and arrived Wednesday with Dugard, his wife and two children. During questioning, corrections officials said he admitted kidnapping Dugard. It was not known if he had a lawyer.
Dugard's stepfather, who witnessed her abduction and was a longtime suspect in the case, said he was overwhelmed by the news after doing everything he could to help find her.
"It broke my marriage up. I've gone through hell, I mean I'm a suspect up until yesterday," a tearful Carl Probyn, 60, told The Associated Press at his home in Orange, Calif.
Garrido's compound was located in Antioch, a city of 100,000 about 170 miles from her family's home in South Lake Tahoe. The house was cordoned off with police tape as it was searched by FBI agents and the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department.
People who knew Garrido said he became increasingly fanatic about his religious beliefs in recent years, sometimes breaking out into song and claiming that God spoke to him through a box.
"In the last couple years he started getting into this strange religious stuff. We kind of felt sorry for him," said Tim Allen, president of East County Glass and Window Inc. in Pittsburgh, who bought business cards and letterhead from Garrido's printing business for the last decade. Three times in recent years, Garrido arrived at Allen's showroom with two "cute little blond girls" in tow, he said.
In April 2008, Garrido registered a corporation called Gods Desire at his home address, according the California Secretary of State. During recent visits to the showroom, Garrido would talk about quitting the printing business to preach full time and gave the impression he was setting up a church, Allen said.
"He rambled. It made no sense," he said.
Garrido would talk about holding events at UC Berkeley and mentioned the names of important people as if he knew them. Allen said he had no inkling of Garrido's criminal record.
"We never thought anything bad about the guy," Allen said. "He was just kind of nutty."
In addition to kidnapping charges, Phillip Garrido is being held for investigation of rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with a minor and sexual penetration, said Jimmie Lee, a spokesman for the Contra Costa Sheriff's Department. His, Nancy Garrido, 54, was arrested on kidnapping charges.
The Associated Press as a matter of policy avoids identifying victims of alleged sexual abuse by name in its news reports. However, Dugard's disappearance had been known and reported for nearly two decades, making impossible any effort to shield her identity now.
Garrido has a long rap sheet dating back to the 1970s.
He has a conviction for rape by force or fear and was paroled from a Nevada state prison in 1988, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
In 1991, police believe he was trolling for victims in South Lake Tahoe in a Ford Granada and snatched Dugard from a bus stop outside her home. The case attracted national attention and was featured on TV's "America's Most Wanted," which broadcast a composite drawing of a suspect seen in the car.
Her stepfather said he saw someone reach out and grab her before the car sped away.
"As soon as I saw the door fly open, the driver's door, I jumped on my mountain bike and I tried to get to the top of the hill but I had no energy," Probyn recalled. "I rode back down and yelled at my neighbor, 911!"
Probyn said his wife, from whom he is separated, was devastated by the kidnapping. He said for 10 years after the crime, she would take a week off work at Christmas and on the anniversary of the abduction and spend the time crying at home.
Probyn eventually lost hope that he would ever see his stepdaughter alive. He said he was struggling to understand why Dugard didn't come forward earlier.
"I don't know if she was brainwashed, I don't know if she was walking around on the street, I don't know if she was locked up under key for 18 years, I have no idea."
The mother and daughter met Thursday morning at an area hotel. Dugard retains custody of her children, authorities said.
At the Lake Tahoe Unified School District, employees huddled around television sets and computers to watch the news conference. Their tears of joy that Jaycee was alive became tears of horror and anger when details of her abduction and long captivity were recounted by police.
"Oh my God," murmured Superintendent James Tarwater.
Resident Angie Keil said the Lake Tahoe community rallied around the family, holding candlelight vigils, and in the early days organizing searches.
"Jaycee has always been in our minds, all these years," she said, her eyes moist with tears.
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Associated Press Writers Paul Elias and Terry Collins in San Francisco, Gillian Flaccus in Orange, Calif., Brooke Donald in Antioch, Calif., and Sandi Chereb in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. contributed to this report.
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Wow....the kidnapper was religious. Saw that one comin from a mile away...lol
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Wow....the kidnapper was religious. Saw that one comin from a mile away...lol
LOL
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Wow....the kidnapper was religious. Saw that one comin from a mile away...lol
LOL
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dont worry floydness fat and ugly girls dont usually get kidnapped
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dont worry floydness fat and ugly girls dont usually get kidnapped
:D
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Wow....the kidnapper was religious. Saw that one comin from a mile away...lol
hahah
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LOL what a sick story! :o
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fuckin fuck faces...its been on the news as if it were somethin important
IMPORTANT BEIN SOMETHIN GOOD HAPPENIN TO THE ECONOMY
LIVE FROM LAKE TAHOE
LIVE FROM PLACERVILLE
LIVE FROM CONCORD
FUCK THA GOV'T
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FUCK THA GOV'T
lol u gonna come up missing one day and we all gonna be like..."Whatever happened to that GET YOUR WALK ON" dude?!
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dont worry floydness fat and ugly girls dont usually get kidnapped
LOL
Have you ever seen a kidnapper abduct a girl....circle the block...and drop her back off? I havent yet, but goddamnit it would be funny...lol
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lol...i guess if i get "stolen" for speakin the truth...thats what it is
FUCK THA GOV'T
lol u gonna come up missing one day and we all gonna be like..."Whatever happened to that GET YOUR WALK ON" dude?!
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lol...i guess if i get "stolen" for speakin the truth...thats what it is
FUCK THA GOV'T
lol u gonna come up missing one day and we all gonna be like..."Whatever happened to that GET YOUR WALK ON" dude?!
u know our government can make a muhafucka come up missing like it aint shit lol
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lol
lets get it....tell em get at me in the elements section...i got ryhmesayers ready for war
they thought rodney king was gangsta wit it?
lol...i guess if i get "stolen" for speakin the truth...thats what it is
FUCK THA GOV'T
lol u gonna come up missing one day and we all gonna be like..."Whatever happened to that GET YOUR WALK ON" dude?!
u know our government can make a muhafucka come up missing like it aint shit lol
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dont worry floydness fat and ugly girls dont usually get kidnapped
LOL
Have you ever seen a kidnapper abduct a girl....circle the block...and drop her back off? I havent yet, but goddamnit it would be funny...lol
LMAO!
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I don't support the death penalty but that sick piece of shit should get electrocuted
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then brought back to life, taken out to mickey dees and then thrown in the gas chamber again
I don't support the death penalty but that sick piece of shit should get electrocuted
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The devil lives..
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The devil lives..
he was President for 8 yrs...
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LOL
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id keep rihanna hidden for 18 years..and do shit to her I wouldn't do to a farm animal
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id keep rihanna hidden for 18 years..and do shit to her I wouldn't do to a farm animal
cmon man...be real with us. Youd tear that shit up...
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3411/3563839982_f8018430ce.jpg?v=0)
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i could. don't you wonder why your mom never talks about her childhood?
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id keep rihanna hidden for 18 years..and do shit to her I wouldn't do to a farm animal
cmon man...be real with us. Youd tear that shit up...
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3411/3563839982_f8018430ce.jpg?v=0)
id fucc it but i aint eatin it
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id keep rihanna hidden for 18 years..and do shit to her I wouldn't do to a farm animal
cmon man...be real with us. Youd tear that shit up...
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3411/3563839982_f8018430ce.jpg?v=0)
id fucc it but i aint eatin it
glad to see you set some standards for yahself...lol
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lol^^^^
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oooohhh baby i like it raaaaaw
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oooohhh baby i like it raaaaaw
lol smack that swine ass
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oooohhh baby i like it raaaaaw
lol smack that swine ass
like that ol sayin...pussy has no face..just imagine it's rihanna
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swine ass has no face
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lol
swine ass has no face
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More reason to say fuck the law.
Who the FUCK paroles a rapist? Serving 50 muthafucka years, an admitted weirdo... Who the FUCK paroles a rapist?
The shit that goes on, men..
Rapists and Child Sex Offenders NEED life TO death penalty sentences. You got registered sex offenders gettin' probation for flashing children, yet you swing at an officer you doin' 10 years no parole. Oh - my - Godddddddddd.