Jaycee Lee Dugard case: Read the Department of Corrections Report Regarding Phillip Garrido

November 7, 11:49 PMCrime ExaminerCindy Adams

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Phillip Garrido (AP Photo)

Many believe the failure of authorities to read convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido’s parole file, resulted in a series of blunders, keeping Jaycee Lee Dugard a prisoner in his backyard compound for years.

California’s Inspector General David R. Shaw said the state’s parole operations have “systemic problems that transcend parolee Garrido’s case and jeopardize public safety.”

Garrido’s parole agents never spoke to his neighbors, did not enforce a rule requiring him to stay within a 25-mile radius of his home, and they allowed him to “regularly skip drug testing,” according to the Sacramento Bee.

Although he was released on lifetime parole for a 1977 rape conviction, federal officials allowed California parole to keep track of him since he lived with his mother in Antioch. According to the report, this supervision was limited and for a 10-year period, he was only visited by parole agents 60 times. The Bee reports that corrections officials have said that a parolee who is a sex offender may warrant up to four visits a month.

Read the report below: 

To read Garrido's 1976 case file, click here.

To see video of the initial press conference regarding Jaycee's case, click here.

To see the early search for Jaycee, click here.

To see photos of missing children found alive, click here.

To watch breaking news and events streamed live over the Net, click here. 

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