Officers lead Nancy Garrido from the El Dorado County jail to be taken to her arraignment at a courthouse in Placerville, Calif. on Friday, Aug. 28, 2009. Garrido is being accused with her husband Phillip Garrido of kidnapping then 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard 18 years ago in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. (AP)
For several years, the woman accused of helping to kidnap and hold captive Jaycee Lee Dugard, worked as a nursing and physical therapy aide in Contra Costa County, Calif.
Nancy Garrido and her sex offender husband, Phillip, allegedly kidnapped Jaycee in 1991, when she was only 11. She was held for 18 years in the family’s backyard and bore two children to Phillip.
Police say Nancy helped her husband isolate and sexually attack the girl for almost two decades, but those who worked with her are shocked by the recent revelations in the media.
From Dec. 1994 through Mar. 1998, she worked full time for Contra Costa ARC. According to Barbara Mazie, the agency’s executive director, Nancy had stellar references as a nursing and physical therapy aide.
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Jaycee Lee Dugard (AP)
"The people who received services through her, they liked her very much. She was a good employee and she was well-liked by the people she worked with," said Maizie. "They cannot believe that this is possible. They're totally shocked."
Nancy’s resume had her nursing aide credits dating back to 1981, and Mazie said she worked only with adults.
According to the Contra Costa Times, when Nancy began working for the agency, Dugard would have been in her teens and pregnant, or have just given birth to the first of two daughters that Phillip fathered.
Mazie would not disclose why Nancy left the agency’s employ, but a neighbor of the Garridos, Helen Boyer, said she stopped to take care of Phillip’s bedridden mother Patricia Franzen.
Many speculate that Nancy’s training could help explain how Jaycee was able to deliver two healthy babies in the backyard compound where the couple kept her captive. Jaycee’s two daughters, Starlet and Angel are now 15 and 11.
Nancy and her husband have pleaded not guilty to 29 felony counts, and her attorney has hinted at an insanity defense, claiming she may not know what she was doing at the time of Jaycee’s kidnapping.
To read the criminal complaint against the Garridos, click here.
To see the early search for Jaycee, click here.
To see photos surrounding the case, click here.
To see photos of missing children found alive, click here.
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This *&% about women being robots needs to end here. I advocate and insist on the Death Penalty for Nancy "the disgusting creep" Garrido. And her delightful husband. In fact, I volunteer to pull the switch. For free.
Garrido should get a death pinalty. He is disgusting.
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