Re: Jaycee Dugard found ALIVE...Kidnap victim walked into station, say cops

by Justice4all on Sat Feb 06, 2010 9:40 pm

Cali, I agree that the Garrido's assets should be paid to Jaycee as compensation for her ordeal all those years, plus support for her two daughters. It is an insult that an abduction victim only gets $2,000 worth of financial aid from the state. I wonder why law enforcement chose a home for her that costs $2,500 a month when they knew how little help she would receive from the state.

by Justice4all on Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:11 pm

Trust for Jaycee Dugard continuing to receive donations

Contra Costa Times
Posted: 02/08/2010 04:10:12 PM PST
Updated: 02/08/2010 04:10:33 PM PST

A story Saturday about a need for contributions to a trust for living expenses and counseling needs for kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard and her family has prompted more donations said Mari Hanes, associate pastor of East Bay Fellowship.

The Danville church has pledged a year's rent money for the family and is also raising money through a sale of donated fine jewelry at Mark Kahn Jewlers in Alamo.

Money donations should be sent to: Jaycee Dugard Trust, PO Box 596,

Atwood, CA 92811. For more information about the jewelry sale, call the store at 925-837-3262.

— Kelly Gust

http://www.insidebayarea.com/crime-courts/ci_14359992

by Justice4all on Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:14 pm

I'm glad that there are plenty of caring people who are donating to Jaycee. She deserves all the help she can get after being held prisoner for 18 years.

by awaiting justice on Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:25 am

That is wonderful J4A... This family wud need all the support it can get.. Also, I am thinking that any assets that Belonged to P.G should be frozen .. Iassume he has put them up for his legal bills, but hopefully a Certificate of Lis Pendance can be put on the prop by Jaycees lawyer so that no property transaction can be done, without a courts ruling on entitlement

Also because of his 2 kids they wud have dibbs on the prop too....??

Lastly, I wud hope that the government will take care of this family and all their counselling needs for as long as necessary... Its really the least that can be done for them...

Im also thinking there will be some kind of lawsuit against LE as there were several complaints filed with LE about "ppl living in the bakyard " I wudnt be surprised if they are offered some kind of settlement as clearly it wasnt thoroughly checked...

by Justice4all on Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:55 pm

Dugard diary shows conflicted emotion on captivity

Story Published: Feb 11, 2010 at 4:25 PM PST
By LISA LEFF Associated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Jaycee Dugard, the Northern California woman who was kidnapped as a child and held prisoner for 18 years, kept a diary in which she wrote of longing for freedom and feeling both emotionally trapped and protective of the man charged with raping her, court documents filed Thursday show.

"It feels like I'm sinking. ... this is supposed to be my life to do with what I like ... but once again he has taken it away," Dugard wrote in an entry dated July 5, 2004, almost five years before she surfaced last summer with the two daughters fathered by her alleged captor Phillip Garrido.

"How many times is he allowed to take it away from me?" she wrote. "I am afraid he doesn't see how the things he says makes me a prisoner."

El Dorado County prosecutors quoted three portions of Dugard's diary in the court papers seeking a protective order barring Garrido and his wife Nancy from trying to contact Dugard or her children, now 12 and 15.

The motion came in response to papers filed last week by the Garridos' defense lawyers trying to force prosecutors to tell them where Dugard is living and if she has a lawyer. A hearing is set for Feb. 26.

District Attorney Vern Pierson said Dugard's writings show that Phillip Garrido controlled her in the past and was trying to exert continued psychological pressure on her from jail.

Dugard, now 29, has "emphatically stated to our office that she does not want any contact with the defendants or their attorneys," Pierson said in the documents. "The people ask this court to protect Ms. Doe and to, once and for all, put an end to the defendant's manipulation."

The papers referred to Dugard as "Jane Doe" because she was 11 when she was kidnapped and sexually assaulted.

The documents also reveal new details about Dugard's captivity, saying she was kept in a building in a hidden compound inside the backyard of the Garridos' Antioch home for the first 18 months after her abduction then prohibited from leaving the yard for the first four years.

In another diary entry, dated more than two years after Dugard was snatched from the street outside her South Lake Tahoe home, Dugard wrote, "I got (a cat) for my birthday from Phil and Nancy ... they did something for me that no one else would do for me, they paid 200 dollars just so I could have my own kitten."

A decade later, however, Dugard wrote of the complex emotions surrounding her situation and Phillip Garrido.

"I don't want to hurt him ... sometimes I think my very presence hurts him," she wrote. "So how can I ever tell him how I want to be free. Free to come and go as I please ... Free to say I have a family. I will never cause him pain if it's in my power to prevent it. FREE."

In the court filing, Pierson said Dugard and the two daughters she had by Garrido when she was 14 and 17 had been instructed by the Garridos to run to the hidden backyard if anyone ever came to the door.

He also described a plan that Phillip Garrido allegedly hatched to stay in contact with Dugard if he was ever arrested. Dugard told prosecutors Garrido instructed her to request an attorney who could communicate directly with his "without law enforcement knowledge," the papers state.

Since Garrido's arrest, he has tried repeatedly to put the plan into action, Pierson said.

On the day he was arrested and Dugard's identity was revealed, Garrido advised her to get a lawyer. The next month, Garrido sent a letter to a Sacramento television station stating he wanted to reach Dugard "by attorney mail only."

In January, Garrido's lawyer wrote Dugard saying, "Mr. Garrido has asked me to convey that he does not harbor any ill will toward (Ms. Doe) or the children and loves them very much."

Dugard interpreted the "ill will" remark to mean she was not following the plan and that the letter was another way of manipulating her, the papers state.

Phillip Garrido's lawyer, Deputy Public Defender Susan Gellman, wrote in an e-mail that contacting a witness to determine what happened is part of her job as a defense attorney, and the information she has been seeking is a matter of routine in criminal cases.

"For the district attorney to hint that it is somehow improper or nefarious is disingenuous to say the least," Gellman wrote. "I am not the 'tool' of any man, as he has been intimated in today's filing."

Nancy Garrido's court-appointed defense lawyer Stephen Tapson did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.

The Garridos have pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The couple also are requesting permission to visit each other in jail, where they are being held on $30 million and $20 million bail, respectively.

Pierson opposed that request, too, blasting efforts by defense lawyers to portray the pair as the parental figures who deserve jailhouse visits so they can discuss the welfare of their "family."

"The defense utterly fails to recognize that Jane Doe and her children were not their 'family,' but were in fact captives - they were victims," Pierson wrote. "The unfortunate reality is that Ms. Doe and her children may not have fully realized they were captives and victims because the defendants controlled their reality."

http://www.kimatv.com/news/national/84177787.html

by Justice4all on Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:02 pm

The Garridos should be barred from trying to contact Jaycee or her daughters. I don't think any rapist should have any rights to children they fathered as a result of a rape.

by Piper on Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:10 pm

There is no way in hell they should have any contact with Jaycee or her children. Any attempt to contact Jaycee or any other family member should be considered another felony crime.

by awaiting justice on Fri Feb 12, 2010 6:27 pm

Reading those entried from Jaycee was painful...
I doubt that she feels much differently today... I suspect the help she and her children are getting have made some kind of a difference. Its hard to imagine that warped reality which is all they knew will go away...I think the youngest may learn to feel a different way, but it is hard to think that jaycee and her oldest will ever not have to work on disregarding the way they truly feel whilst knowing what is right...

by Justice4all on Sat Feb 13, 2010 12:38 am

Newly released parole documents detail Phillip Garrido's life before Dugard kidnapping arrest

February 12, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO - Parole records show Phillip Garrido complained in 2008 about having to wear a monitoring device because he had not been in trouble with the law for 19 years — nearly as long as he allegedly held Jaycee Dugard captive in his backyard.

The documents released Friday by California corrections officials also show that less than a month before he was arrested last summer, Garrido initialed papers promising not to have contact with girls between 14 and 18 years old.

Garrido was living at the time with the daughters he sired with Dugard, who were 11 and 14.

Officials released the documents after several news organizations sued. The paperwork doesn't include personnel records or medical or psychological records.

Garrido has pleaded not guilty to the kidnapping.

http://www.startribune.com/nation/84283377.html

by Justice4all on Fri Feb 26, 2010 3:15 pm

Dugard, girls and mom file claims against state

Kevin Fagan, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, February 26, 2010

(02-26) 11:39 PST SACRAMENTO -- Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard and her family have filed claims against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in an action that will most likely lead to a lawsuit, contending that parole agents bungled their monitoring of her alleged abductor.

"Various lapses" by the department and the agents who checked in on convicted kidnapper and rapist Phillip Craig Garrido for a decade meant that Dugard was held captive longer than she would have if the monitoring had been done effectively, the family contends.

Dugard, 29, the two daughters she had by Garrido, and her mother, Terry Probyn, filed their claims with the state Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board on Jan. 25.

Because Dugard remained a virtual sex slave in Garrido's secret backyard compound near Antioch for more than a decade, the family says, she and her family suffered "psychological, physical and emotional damages."

The claims don't ask for a specific dollar amount of compensation, indicating only that they exceed $25,000, said Rachel Wall, spokeswoman for the compensation board.

If the board rejects the claims at its meeting March 18, the family's next recourse will be to file a lawsuit.

"Because they are seeking damages in excess of $25,000, this will likely go to civil court," Wall said.

Authorities discovered Dugard and her daughters were being kept in Garrido's backyard in August, after police and parole officials became suspicious when he turned up at UC Berkeley with the girls to distribute religious flyers.

Dugard was kidnapped in 1991 at age 11 from South Lake Tahoe. Authorities say she was imprisoned in the Antioch-area home from then on by Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy Garrido, 54.

Phillip Garrido was convicted in 1976 of kidnapping and raping a woman in South Lake Tahoe, and was under a lifetime parole order. Federal parole agents oversaw his monitoring until 1999, when California parole agents started supervising him, but none discovered Dugard.

A report issued in November by the state Inspector General's Office cited mistakes by parole agents that included treating Garrido as a low-risk offender and failing to notice electrical hookups at his house that led to the secret backyard compound.

The Garridos are to be in El Dorado County Superior Court this afternoon before Judge Douglas Phimister to request that they be able to contact Dugard or her representative in preparation for their trials on kidnapping and rape charges. The couple also want to visit each other in jail. Prosecutors are opposing both requests, saying Phillip Garrido has long manipulated and intimidated Dugard and her children.

County Deputy Public Defender Susan Gellman, attorney for Phillip Garrido, said in court filings for today's hearing that her client has "signs of serious mental illness" and "has been hearing voices of angels for years" - but she still wants him to be able to contact Dugard.

She argues that Garrido's desire to contact the mother of his two children is sincere, and is not intended as "harassment, intimidation or dissuasion of a witness."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/26/BA481C7R0C.DTL

by Justice4all on Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:02 pm

Judge: Dugard suspects can talk to each other

By LISA LEFF AND BROOKE DONALD
Last updated February 26, 2010 5:27 p.m. PT

PLACERVILLE, Calif. -- The Northern California couple charged with kidnapping Jaycee Dugard and holding her captive for 18 years must be given the opportunity to speak to each other while in jail, a judge said Friday.

Phillip and Nancy Garrido have been held separately since their arrests in August and denied access to each other. Their lawyers argued they had a constitutional right to visit to talk about the case, their finances and their hopes for Dugard and the two daughters Dugard had with Phillip Garrido.

Prosecutors and jail officials strongly opposed the request. Jail officials had said arranging such visits would overburden the staff, while the county district attorney scoffed at the suggestion that the Garridos had any role to play in promoting Dugard's well-being.

But El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Douglas C. Phimister on Friday scolded the county sheriff's department, which runs the jail, for being unwilling to facilitate communication between the two inmates. Phimister argued that jail officials routinely find ways to arrange calls and visits to inmates that are monitored "when it is to our advantage."

"These are two people who are potentially facing the rest of their lives in prison," he said. "To allow them 10 minutes to talk to each other is not unreasonable."

Phimister ordered jail officials to allow Nancy Garrido, if she chooses, to place two five minute phone calls to her husband over the next several weeks. He said Phillip Garrido would not be allowed to contact his wife for now because of claims made by prosecutors and Nancy Garrido's lawyer that she was controlled by him during their 29-year marriage.

The judge scheduled another court hearing for April 15 to discuss whether the couple, who have pleaded not guilty, would be allowed face-to-face visits in the future.

Outside of court, Nancy Garrido's court-appointed lawyer, Stephen Tapson, told reporters he had no doubt his client would try to call her husband as soon as it could be arranged. She broke into tears as the judge outlined his plan for the two phone calls, Tapson said.

"She loves him," Tapson shrugged, adding that he still thinks Nancy Garrido was manipulated by her husband during the years Dugard was held captive.

At Friday's hearing, the judge also appointed two lawyers to represent Dugard's two daughters, who were fathered by Phillip Garrido.

Phimister said the girls need their own lawyers because the defense is seeking access to the interviews they gave authorities after the Garridos' arrests and because they would likely be called as witnesses if there is a trial.

Meanwhile, Dugard and her family have taken the first step to sue the state of California for lapses officials made while she and her daughters were allegedly held captive by the Garridos.

Dugard, her two daughters and her mother, Terry Probyn, each filed claim forms in late January against the Department of Corrections, said Jon Myers, a spokeswoman for the state's Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board.

Dugard's spokeswoman, Nancy Seltzer, said the family members haven't decided whether they'll file a lawsuit.

"We are simply preserving Jaycee Dugard's right to file a lawsuit at a later date, if that is something she decides is in her family's best interest," Seltzer said.

By law, victims have six months from the time of the incident to file a personal injury claim against the state.

The forms do not ask for a specific dollar amount, only saying damages exceed $25,000.

The damage or injury specified on the form was for "psychological and emotional injury" and the circumstances that lead to the damage or injury were described as "lapses by the Corrections Department."

A messages left with the Santa Monica, Calif.-based attorney listed on the claims, Dale Kinsella, was not immediately returned.

Prosecutors say Dugard was kidnapped from outside her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991 by the Garridos, then taken to Antioch, Calif., where she lived with two daughters fathered by Phillip Garrido in a ramshackle backyard compound.

Phillip Garrido had been under parole supervision because of a 1977 conviction for raping a 25-year-old woman. He was released from prison in 1988 and placed under federal supervision until 1999, when California took over.

According to an investigation by the Office of Inspector General, mistakes in how California monitored Garrido began right away. Among them, he was wrongly classified as a low-risk offender, which meant looser controls on him, and one agent did not try to confirm the identity of a young girl he saw at the house while on a visit, instead trusting Garrido's claim that she was his niece.

The secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Matthew Cate, has acknowledged serious errors in the handling of the case.

http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1110ap_us_kidnapped_girl_found_claims.html?source=rss

by Justice4all on Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:04 pm

It is sad that Jaycee has to sue in order to get adequate compensation for what she had to go through. The system failed her on so many levels starting with not making Garrido serve his full 50-year sentence for rape.

by Piper on Sat Feb 27, 2010 11:29 am

I agree, J4A. Too many times these rapists only serve a mere fraction of their sentence.

by Estee on Sat Feb 27, 2010 11:35 am

I believe there is NO amount of money that can serve as restitution for what that poor girl and her children went through...They will never forget the crimes committed against them...The years of freedom they missed out on and the sexual abuse that Jaycee endured will never be erased in their minds....

by awaiting justice on Sat Feb 27, 2010 1:12 pm

Exactly Piper, and here we are continuing to appease the Garrido's and ensuring that that their "reasonable" requests are met....

Nothing about these 2's requests are reasonable. The fact that they are allowed 3 squares and a roof over their head is baffling. They have no place here on earth. They not only ruied Jaycee's life but her entire families and 2 innocent childrens lives too, who were born into heinous crimes againt them and their mother. These 2 have ruined the lives of so many yet, get to have their needs and wants considered..

We see Jaycee having to take legal action for all the violations that were against her becasue of incompetance..

WTF is wrong with this picture...

by Snaz on Mon Mar 01, 2010 1:18 am

Dugard, family file claims against Calif.
Cite 'lapses' by state officials in handling of her alleged kidnapper

updated 5:59 p.m. ET, Fri., Feb. 26, 2010

ANTIOCH, Calif. - Jaycee Dugard and her family have taken the first step to sue the state of California for lapses officials made while she and her daughters were allegedly held captive by a convicted sex offender.

Dugard, her two daughters and her mother, Terry Probyn, have each filed claim forms against the Department of Corrections, Rachel Wall, a spokeswoman for the state's Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board, said Friday.

Dugard's spokeswoman, Nancy Seltzer, said the family members haven't decided whether they'll file a lawsuit.

"We are simply preserving Jaycee Dugard's right to file a lawsuit at a later date, if that is something she decides is in her family's best interest," Seltzer said.

By law, victims have six months from the time of the incident to file a personal injury claim against the state. Dugard was found in August.

The forms do not ask for a specific dollar amount, only saying damages exceed $25,000.

A messages left with the Santa Monica, Calif.-based attorney listed on the claims, Dale Kinsella, was not immediately returned.

Mistakes in monitoring
Prosecutors say Dugard was kidnapped from outside her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991 by Phillip and Nancy Garrido, then taken to Antioch, Calif., where she lived with two daughters fathered by Phillip Garrido in a ramshackle backyard compound.

Phillip Garrido had been under parole supervision because of a 1977 conviction for raping a 25-year-old woman. He was released from prison in 1988 and placed under federal supervision until 1999, when California took over.

According to an investigation by the Office of Inspector General, mistakes in how California monitored Garrido began right away. Among them, he was wrongly classified as a low-risk offender, which meant looser controls on him, and one agent did not try to confirm the identity of a young girl he saw at the house while on a visit, instead trusting Garrido's claim that she was his niece.

The secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Matthew Cate, has acknowledged serious errors in the handling of the case.

The Garridos have been charged with raping and abducting Dugard. They have pleaded not guilty and have an appearance in El Dorado County Superior Court later Friday on defense motions to allow them to visit each other in jail.

Their lawyers also want contact information for Dugard and permission from the court to communicate with her. Prosecutors oppose the motion.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35607056/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

by Justice4all on Thu Mar 04, 2010 5:49 pm

Jaycee Dugard case: ABC to air new home video of kidnap victim and family

Associated Press
Posted: 03/04/2010 08:45:52 AM PST
Updated: 03/04/2010 08:45:53 AM PST

NEW YORK — ABC says it will air recently taped home video Friday of kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard, who was rescued last August after 18 years in captivity.

The network says Dugard, her mother, Terry Probyn, and her half-sister Shayna will be seen and heard for the first time on-camera since she was abducted in 1991 near her home in South Lake Tahoe. She was held prisoner in the backyard of her captor.

Dugard now lives with her mother and her two daughters, allegedly fathered by her abductor, in the East Bay.

Excerpts from the video of Dugard, now 29, are scheduled to air on "Good Morning America," ''20/20" and "Nightline."

http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_14512175?source=most_viewed&nclick_check=1

by tish on Thu Mar 04, 2010 5:55 pm

I saw this earlier, but was disappointed that they didn't say WHEN they would air video...

by Justice4all on Thu Mar 04, 2010 6:03 pm

I wonder if they are going to air the whole video since the article just says excerpts are scheduled to air on "Good Morning America," ''20/20" and "Nightline." It wouldn't surprise me if "Good Morning America" plays an excerpt, then tells you to tune into "20/20" for more, and then "20/20" plays a different one and tells you to tune into "Nightline" for more.

by Piper on Thu Mar 04, 2010 6:36 pm

Since they are stating "excerpts" will be aired - who's going to show the entire video?....And when is right! I hate it when these news releases only throw us half a bone!