A new report from the government shows that Jaycee Dugard was brainwashed into protecting her kidnapper, Phillip Garrido. Parole officers visited the house that Jaycee Dugard lived in with Nancy and Phillip Garrido and Jaycee told them she was from Minnesota and hiding from an abusive husband for five years.
"She was terrified of being found, she said, and that was the reason she could not give the parole agent any information," according to the report from the California's Inspector General.
Parole officers discovered the truth that Phillip and Nancy Garrido kidnapped her in 1991 and is the father of her two daughters, Angel, age 15, and Starlet, age 11, after they interviewed everyone separately.
When parole officers came to the house on August 26 Jaycee refused to show identification, and said her name was Alyssa. Dugard said she was "aware that Garrido had taken the girls to UC Berkeley (to apply for a permit to host a religious event), and that he was a sex offender who was on parole for kidnapping and raping a woman," the report states.
"She added that Garrido was a changed man and a great person who was good with her kids," the report continues. "Alyssa subsequently stated that she didn't want to provide any additional information and that she might need a lawyer."
Garrido told parole officers that all three young women were "sisters and that the father was his brother, who lived nearby in Oakley, Calif."
At a later interview, "Garrido admitted he was the father of the two girls ... and to kidnapping and raping Alyssa," the report says. It was only then that "Alyssa identified herself as Jaycee Dugard and confirmed that she had been kidnapped and raped by Garrido."
The report also contains information from Dr. Carole Lieberman, a forensic psychiatrist at UCLA, who said that Jaycee "was protecting Garrido out of fear, a distorted sense of loyalty, and a need to feel connected to the father of her children." Lieberman added that Jaycee Dugard was probably also concerned about her daughters learning the truth about their father, and that she was probably embarrassed about never trying to return to her real family.
The Jaycee Dugard kidnapping is similar to the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping in that both were held hostage for an extended period of time and found alive. Elizabeth Smart testified against her kidnapper Brian David Mitchell on October 1, 2009. Smart testified that she was raped 3 or 4 times a day, and tied to a pole by Mitchell and his wife. To read Smart's shocking testimony, click here.
Sources: KTVN and People
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Comments
You find children in a sex offender's house and everything is okie-dokie! Huh? These lazy, incompetent Parole Agents deserve nothing less than termination! Ofcourse, CCPOA will come to their rescue with all manner of rediculous excuses why they don't deserve to be fired. HOGWASH! I hope the family sues the socks out of all the lames who allowed this tramp to continue victimizing innocent children. Makes me wanna puke!
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