I read that a neighbour called the sheriffs department saying that he was a deranged sexual deviate with people locked up in his backyard. A deputy went to the house and stayed on the front verandah, spoke to the kidnapper and left. That was 3 years ago.

I am glad this girl survived this harrowing experience and is now free as an adult.

My sympathies are with her, her innocent children and her parents.


As a mother, this is the worst nightmare, for 18 years to have no idea whether your child is alive or dead, to be left to imagine the worst possible scenarios.

I agree with the author, this crime was made possible by the gross incompetence of our justice system and parole system. Shame on everyone

I am glad this girl survived this harrowing experience and is now free as an adult.

My sympathies are with her, her innocent children and her parents.


As a mother, this is the worst nightmare, for 18 years to have no idea whether your child is alive or dead, to be left to imagine the worst possible scenarios.

I agree with the author, this crime was made possible by the gross incompetence of our justice system and parole system. Shame on everyone.

It is strange. he was jailed for 50 years, got out on PAROLE after just 11 years, why do the morons let him out? He is obviously a sicko deranged male human, kidnapped and raped a 25 year old casino worker who gave him a ride home one night, he broke the social contract among humans which says you shall not rape or kill another person, and he did. So of course, he is going to do more anti-social things when he gets out on parole. what stupid idea parole it. WHO invented that? Cut off his balls and and keep him away from human contact for life. but now, out he goes at age 36, ready to do more mischief. and he does.....sad story, sigh.

As for the poor woman, now 29, she was obviosuly a victim brainwashing and programming by him and his robot wife, and Jaycee really felt he was her benefactor. That's how these things work. brainwashing does work. Call is Stockhoilm syn, call it Jaycee Syndrome....but she will eventually get out of the trance, just like Patty Hearst did, she will be okay, considering,,,but it will take time. 10 years or so. She will be okay. Her kids will be okay. But it's sad sick story all around. Why does USA prison system led antisocial people out on PAROLE? what the idea behind that? Save money? Rehabilitate the sickos? never. keep in for life!

Natalie, Jennifer, Dan. You're so right, all of you. I understand that they let people out early, mostly because of overcrowding. But to NOT monitor him closely is the real crime here. Shame on the lot of them!

She is 29 now - her eldest daughter is 15. That means she delivered a baby at age 14, alone, in a shed. 14. I ache at the thought and wonder how she'll ever be okay. Or how the 15 year old that's never gone to school will adapt.

You and me both.

Her actual imprisonment is over. But by my calculation, she had her first baby by this human Piece O' Shit and pervert when she was fourteen.

Fourteen. She lived imprisoned and cut off from the world in this guy's backyard in a crude shed for years. It horrifies me to think what her life was like for the past eighteen years.

I do commend the Berkeley police officers who saw him with the children he fathered on Jaycee Dugard, and acted on their suspicions that the girls did not behave like normal children aged eleven and fifteen.

But the Antioch police dropped the ball in so many ways it's disgraceful.

@Boomer,@ Shiral: I know. It's awful, and whenever I think about this awful crime and the incompetent public officials, I keep getting this grinding feeling in the pit of my stomach. Those 18 years must have been hell.

Nor were she and the children she was forced to have far too young ever given any proper medical care. It just boggles the mind. Aside from the obvious wrongness of her viewing this awful man as a 'benefactor' she was lucky to survive the experience of childbirth without proper help. A painful, possibly traumatic experience for women even when they give birth in a hospital with proper care. Honesly, I hope Garrido gets bludgeoned to death by angry cons for what he put that poor girl through. He's one of the few people on Earth who deserves that fate.

@shiral: Bravo!