Jaycee Dugard found ALIVE/Phillip Garrido Sentenced To Life In Prison

Jaycee Dugard: Parole Agents Blew Opportunities to Rescue Me

Entertainment Tonight
July 7, 2010

A new report from the California attorney general's office alleges that state parole agents interacted with Jaycee Dugard and her older daughter while they were allegedly being held captive by Phillip Garrido, but the agents "failed to investigate their identities or their relationship to Garrido."

The report was sent to lawmakers before they voted last week to settle with the Dugard family for $20 million, says the Associated Press.

Dugard and her daughters -- allegedly fathered by Garrido -- claimed they might have been rescued sooner if parole agents had followed up on potential leads presented to them, says the AP. They also claim the agents didn't properly supervise Garrido beginning in 1999.

Dugard was allegedly held in the backyard of Garrido and his wife’s home for 18 years. Garrido has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping and raping Dugard.

http://wonderwall.msn.com/movies/jaycee-dugard-parole-agents-blew-opportunities-to-rescue-me-1560106.story

(From February 2010)

Jaycee Dugard's Diary Entries Revealed

Posted February 11, 2010 4:02:00 PM

In court on Thursday, an attorney read emotionally charged diary entries reportedly written by Jaycee Dugard, the alleged rape and kidnap victim who was purportedly held in the backyard of an Antioch, CA man's home for 18 years.

People.com reports that El Dorado County Deputy District Attorney James Clinchard recited several of Dugard's diary entries in court because lawyers for Dugard's alleged captors, Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy, wish to learn the current whereabouts of Dugard and the two daughters Garrido is accused of fathering with her.

"How can I ever tell him how I want to be free?" Dugard reportedly wrote in 2003, six years prior to charges being brought against the Garridos, who are accused of abducting Dugard outside her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991 when she was 11.

She also reportedly wrote about her alleged captor in 2003: "I don't want to hurt him. … Sometimes I think my very presence hurts him. … 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!"

People.com says that in 2004, Dugard wrote: "It feels like I'm sinking. I'm afraid I want control of my life. . . . This is supposed to be my life to do with what I like . . . but once again he has taken it away. How many times is he allowed to take it away from me? I am afraid he doesn't see how the things he says makes me a prisoner . . . Why don't I have control of my life! I feel I can't even be sure my thoughts are my own."

The site says Clinchard told the court that Dugard "has emphatically stated to our office that she does not want any contact with [the Garridos] or their attorneys" and she has requested that the district attorney's office protect her privacy.

Clinchard reportedly said the diary entries illustrate Philip Garrido's alleged attempts to control Dugard, and he requested that the court "once and for all put an end to [Garrido's] manipulation."

The court is set to hear motions on Feb. 26, says People.com, which adds that Dugard's spokeswoman says Dugard knew Clinchard would present some of her diary entries in court.

http://www.etonline.com/news/2010/02/83989/index.html

Schwarzenegger signs $20 million Jaycee Dugard settlement

By Don Thompson
Associated Press
Updated: 07/10/2010 12:33:20 AM PDT

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a $20 million state settlement Friday with a woman who was held captive near Antioch for 18 years and the two daughters she bore to her suspected abductor.

The settlement signed Friday acknowledged the state's repeated missteps in supervising Phillip Garrido.

The convicted rapist was on parole when authorities say he kidnapped Jaycee Dugard in 1991 from near her South Lake Tahoe home. She was 11 at the time.

The settlement will provide Dugard, now 30, and her daughters with enough money to provide a lifetime of therapy and education. Her daughters are 15 and 12.

Debate among lawmakers and statements from negotiators in the state Attorney General's Office indicated officials decided to settle the claim by Dugard to avoid what could have been an even larger award had the case gone to a jury. They also acknowledged no amount of money could compensate Dugard for her ordeal.

Dugard and her daughters filed the claim in February with the state, saying California parole agents failed to follow up on numerous clues that could have led to their rescue years before they finally surfaced in August.

Dugard told her attorneys that she and her eldest daughter spoke with parole agents, but the agents failed to follow up.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/timesstar/localnews/ci_15479787

Yay...........................!!

A great example of narrow minded investigations that chase and ruin the wrong person, where it clearly denies the victim of any help....

To think that Kyron and Haleigh are still missing where LE are doing the same thing as in Jaycee's case...

To know what happened to Jaycee is unthinkable. LE's narrow mindedness, poisoned society against her step father... it also didnt take very long for LE to convice Jaycee's family of his unjustified/incorrect guilt.

To think that this example of such a miscarriage of justice is high profile in the media, yet in Kyrons story, the exact same thing is happening.... We need to ask ourselves how judging families in similar cases, is helping... We need to look at our inluence in assisting LE to continue to work similar cases by blaming the family from the getgo..Jaycees horrible experience shud not be in vain..cant we learn anything from her nightmare? There are too many similar stories to think that this one is so isolated.. We are foolish to think these crimes dont happen.. How many victims are out there, or have been killed and thrown in the trash by monsters like her captors? How mnay victims dont we find becasue we dont look.. Its easier top blame the family where we potentially ruin their lives, after they have already suffered such an unimagineable loss... How are we helping?

KIDNAP SEX SLAVE JAYCEE DUGARD SUED BY DAD
08 August 2010

KIDNAP sex slave victim Jaycee Dugard is facing fresh agony as her dad takes legal action over her £12.5million compensation payout.

She has been hit by a legal claim from the biological father she’s never seen following the compo ­payment for her 18 years of misery.

Kenneth Slayton, 64, has launched a court paternity ­petition despite the fact Jaycee, now 30, has issued a public statement saying she “never wishes to see” him.

Slayton, who says he is suffering from cancer, has vowed: “I will never give up the effort to make contact. I want to ­protect and love her.”

El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson, who is ­ prosecuting Jaycee’s jailed abductors Phillip Garrido, 58, and his wife Nancy, 54, said: “It’s a sad ­commentary on our society that a man professes all he wants is to love and protect her and, damn it, he’ll sue her for the right to do it.”

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/148116/Kidnap-sex-slave-Jaycee-Dugard-sued-by-dad/



This is just WRONG! I don't even know what to say but that. What a horrible way to treat your daughter, let alone one that has gone thru what she has.

Isn't it amazing how $$$$ brings the cockroaches out from under the floor boards...Sorry that he has cancer, but where does he get off thinking that he has the right to any of her $$$..?...

I don't care if she doesn't want to see her bio dad, but what about her step dad? That guy was accused and investigated for a long time in this case. She should make contact with him, even if her mom does not want to.

She is a big girl now, and this man was the only father she knew for 11 years. He is the one I feel sorry for.

Jaycee Dugard's alleged kidnapper may undergo psychological exam before trial

By SAM STANTON - McClatchy Newspapers
Friday, Aug. 20, 2010

PLACERVILLE, Calif. -- New questions arose Friday afternoon over whether Phillip Garrido is mentally competent to stand trial in the 1991 kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard.

With the one-year anniversary of Dugard's reappearance after 18 years of captivity coming next week, a judge in El Dorado Superior Court said there still is a question over whether officials will seek a psychological exam of Garrido before the case goes forward.

Read more: http://www.bnd.com/2010/08/20/1371462/jaycee-dugards-alleged-kidnapper.html

Picture sales of Dugard, daughters decried as privacy invasion
Mental competency questions of her alleged kidnapper come up in court

msnbc.com
updated 8/20/2010 11:27:32 PM ET

PLACERVILLE, Calif. — A spokeswoman for Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped as a young girl and held captive for 18 years, criticized the purported sale of unauthorized photos of Dugard and her daughters to media outlets.

The criticism came as key questions were raised Friday over the mental competency of Phillip Garrido to stand trial in Dugard's 1991 kidnapping.

In a statement Friday, Nancy Seltzer said Dugard, now 30, is not a celebrity and neither are her two minor age girls, and that they should be able to “lead as normal a life as possible without being treated as a curiosity by onlookers and their cameras.”

"Someone wise once told me that our privacy was dependent on the morality of the one doing the observing," said Seltzer. "I'm saddened by the photos of Jaycee and her daughters being offered to the media.”

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38793573/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

Who are making the pictures and offering them to the media? I thought it was the media that was making the pictures.

Jaycee Dugard's Spokesperson Blasts Unauthorized Pics

August 23, 2010 2:33 PM
Posted by Kevin Hayes

SACRAMENTO (CBS/ KOVR) A spokesperson for Jaycee Lee Dugard and her daughters is blasting a photographer who "secretly" took pictures of Jaycee Lee Dugard and her daughters and is offering them for sale to the media.

Read more:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20014428-504083.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody

Jaycee and her girls are living in hiding again. They need to be free to go wherever they want. Maybe the public's curiosity will begin to cease over time.

It's sure taking a long time and costing a lot of money to prosecute two people who are obviously guilty.

Veteran prosecutor: Garrido trial could take years and cost millions

George Warren
August 26, 2010



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El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Douglas Phimister had scheduled the preliminary hearing to begin Oct. 7, but that date was suddenly thrown into question when Phillip Garrido's attorney indicated she had some doubts about her client's mental ability to assist in his defense.

"Given the current pace, the preliminary hearing may not happen until deep into the year 2011," said Portanova. "The trial may not be for another year or two after that, if it happens at all. It could be two, three, four years away," he said.

In the meantime, the meter's running for El Dorado County taxpayers. Both of the Garridos' attorneys are on the county payroll, as are the prosecutors, investigators and expert witnesses.

Read more: http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=92604&catid=2

Jaycee Dugard: Where is she now?

Cristina Mendonsa
August 26, 2010

SLIDESHOW: Jaycee Dugard pictures

SACRAMENTO, CA - After 18 years trapped in a dirty shed and trashy backyard, Jaycee Dugard and her two daughters are traveling, finishing their education and exploring a world kept from them for most of their lives, according to Jaycee's family.

Two family members who spoke to News10 on the condition they remain anonymous said Dugard and her children have not sequestered themselves in their compound.

Dugard has been seen in Old Sacramento, at amusement parks with her children and after receiving her driver's license last January, she has enjoyed taking road trips.

Read more: http://www.news10.net/news/article.aspx?storyid=92582&catid=188

Jaycee Dugard: One year later

C. Johnson
August 26, 2010

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In our special section "Jaycee Dugard: One Year Later," News10 talked to several participants in the case, including Contra Costa County sheriff Warren Rupf, who admits his department missed opportunities to uncover what was happening in the Garrido home.

News10 also spoke with others about the case, including former Garrido business associate Tim Allen as well as corrections department officials, who defend the state's oversight of Garrido.

Read more: http://www.news10.net/news/article.aspx?storyid=92563&catid=188

I'm glad to hear Jaycee her daughters are out enjoying life, that is really good to hear. All the time and money being spent on Garrido is ridiculous, he admits what he did. The two children that were produced from Jaycee's capture and rape is more than proof. There is no reason for this to be carried out longer than it already has been.

Board denies claim in Jaycee Dugard kidnapping

Associated Press

Posted on September 16, 2010 at 5:31 PM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The board that considers compensation for California crime victims has denied a claim by the mother of kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard.

The Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board on Thursday rejected Terry Probyn's claim that she deserved to be compensated for emotional injury because state parole agents did not find Dugard while she was being held by her alleged kidnappers.

Read more: http://www.ktvb.com/news/national/103096539.html

I think if anyone should sue it would be the step-dad. He also loved Jaycee, missed Jaycee and was always considered a POI in her disappearance.

If I were him, I would have already filed a suit against the local LE, state LE and FBI as well as the city officials, county officials and state officials.

Garridos indicted by grand jury to speed up case

By Sam Stanton
Last Modified: Wednesday, Sep. 22, 2010 - 7:44 pm

Prosecutors in the kidnap-rape trial of Phillip and Nancy Garrido apparently have changed gears, moving to get the El Dorado County grand jury to indict the couple and move the case to trial without going through a preliminary hearing, Nancy Garrido's attorney said this afternoon.

Stephen Tapson said he had been told that the couple were indicted by the grand jury Tuesday or this morning but that he would not receive official word until a transcript of the grand jury session was completed.

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/09/22/3049516/garridos-indicted-by-grand-jury.html

Judge halts criminal proceedings against Garrido over concerns about mental state

By Lisa Leff
Associated Press
Updated: 09/24/2010 04:19:17 PM PDT

PLACERVILLE -- A judge temporarily suspended criminal proceedings Friday against the man accused of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard when she was a child and holding her prisoner for 18 years near Antioch, citing concerns about the defendant's mental state.

El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Douglas Phimister made the decision after a short pretrial hearing for Phillip Garrido.

Phimister said he had concerns about Garrido's mental competency to participate in his defense on 29 counts of kidnapping, rape and false imprisonment in the 1991 disappearance of Dugard. A preliminary hearing in which prosecutors would have laid out their evidence against Garrido had been scheduled to start Oct. 7.

The judge did not halt proceedings against Garrido's wife, Nancy, who faces similar counts. The two are accused of holding Dugard captive in a backyard jumble of tents and sheds for nearly two decades until they were arrested in August 2009.

Read more: http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_16165593