The kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard #.2

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Jaycee Dugard Exclusive: 'It's Been a Long Haul'

Jaycee Dugard Speaks for the First Time in Exclusive Home Video

March 5, 2010

The home video shows a portrait of a healing family -- a mother and her two daughters baking cookies, riding horses and laughing together.

It's the first glimpse at the freedom kidnap survivor Jaycee Dugard has enjoyed since her rescue last summer from the backyard lair where she was held captive for nearly two decades.

"Hi I'm Jaycee. I want to thank you for your support and I'm doing well,"

Dugard said in her first public statement since the arrest of her alleged captors. She is seated, dressed in a black shirt and jeans and a pink baseball cap, and feeding two spaniels.

"It's been a long haul," she said, "but I'm getting there."

See the exclusive home video on "20/20" tonight with Chris Cuomo and Elizabeth Vargas at 9 p.m. ET

Dugard, her mother Terry Probyn and the two daughters Dugard gave birth to in captivity -- believed to have been fathered by suspect Phillip Garrido -- have been living in a secret location in California since late summer.

The home video first shows Dugard, her 19-year-old half-sister Shayna and Probyn decorating Christmas cookies. They listen as their mother talks about the recipe they used.

At one point, they all laugh as Shayna makes a mistake decorating her cookie.

"I've never gotten to decorate a cookie before," she said.

In another Christmas scene, the trio sits by a roaring fireplace under their Christmas stockings.

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/TheLaw/ja...ry?id=10009310

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Jaycee Dugard Opens Up, Shares Her Home Videos

Friday, March 05, 2010



NEW YORK — Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard, held captive for 18 years in a ramshackle backyard compound, was seen cooking with her sister and mother and riding horses in recently shot home videos aired on ABC Friday.

The appearance by Dugard, 29, represents the first time she has been seen and heard on video since she resurfaced six months ago after being kidnapped outside her South Lake Tahoe, California, home in 1991.

In one video clip, Dugard's mother, Terry Probyn, thanks the public for its support and asks people to respect the family's privacy.

"Please give us the time we need to heal as a family without the prying eyes of photographers and the press," says Probyn, addressing the camera in an outdoor setting. "We released this video to show that we are happy and well, and when we have more to share, we will."

"Hi I'm Jaycee," says Dugard in another clip, wearing a black shirt, jeans and a pink baseball cap. "I want to thank you for your support, and I'm doing well.

"It's been a long haul, but I'm getting there."

Several seconds of video show Dugard — a round-faced brunette — in the kitchen with her mother and her half-sister, Shayna, decorating Christmas cookies and laughing.

ABC played excerpts from their home videos during "Good Morning America," with additional clips planned later Friday on "20/20" and "Nightline."

Photographs of Dugard, her mother and her half-sister were published in People magazine in October, along with a statement from Dugard saying that she was happy to be back with her family.

Convicted sex offender, Phillip Garrido, and his wife, Nancy, are awaiting trial on charges that they kidnapped Dugard when she was 11 years old and sexually assaulted her for several years.

Prosecutors say she was kept in a tent-compound in a secret backyard at the couple's Antioch, California, home. The Garridos have pleaded not guilty.

Dugard had two daughters, now 12 and 15, by Phillip Garrido. The girls were not pictured in the People magazine spread to protect their privacy, and ABC did not say whether they would appear in the home videos.

Since being reunited with her family, Dugard has avoided the spotlight while living in an undisclosed location in Northern California.

Court documents suggest she is cooperating with El Dorado County authorities who are prosecuting the Garridos. Through a spokesman, she has said she is willing to testify, should there be a trial.

Over the past six months, Dugard also has taken steps to reintegrate into society. She got a driver's license last month and obtained birth certificates for her daughters. ABC reported that she is completing her high-school equivalency degree and hopes to attend college.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,...est=latestnews

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Saturday, Mar. 20, 2010

California boosts its monitoring of sex offenders

Policy changes come after 2 high-profile cases of lapses

SACRAMENTO — California parole officials said Friday they have ordered increased monitoring of all sex offenders after recent high-profile lapses, most notably in the case of a young woman who was held captive for 18 years by a convicted rapist.

The new policy requires parole agents to more closely track the movements of offenders using GPS-linked ankle bracelets.

It also requires agents to visit high-risk sex offenders at their homes twice a month, up from just one monthly visit.

The policy change memo independently obtained by The Associated Press came after agents were criticized for not discovering a convicted sex offender was allegedly keeping Jaycee Dugard hidden at his Contra Costa County home for 18 years.

The new orders won't impact Stanislaus County's Probation Department.

Chief Probation Officer Jerry Powers said sex offenders under his jurisdiction are visited each month, and the offenders with GPS bracelets are monitored more closely with weekly check-ins. "There just isn't the resources," to visit all offenders more frequently, he said.

State corrections officials are also reviewing whether they should have revoked the parole of John Albert Gardner III, a convicted sex offender now charged with murdering one San Diego County teen and being investigated in the death of another.

"We basically have higher level tracking not only on high-risk sex offenders but even on low-risk sex offenders," said Gordon Hinkle, spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. "This is basically areas that we felt needed improvement."

The policy changes are a response to a report in November from the department's inspector general that criticized it for missing chances to catch Phillip Garrido, who is now charged with kidnapping and sexual assault in the Dugard case.

"Public safety is of paramount importance," Margarita Perez, deputy director of the department's Division of Adult Parole Operations, said in the policy memo distributed to parole agents on Thursday.

Authorities say the convicted rapist fathered two children with Dugard after she was taken from a South Lake Tahoe street in 1991, when she was 11.

Garrido and his wife, Nancy Garrido, have pleaded not guilty.

Greater use of GPS tracking

The new policy requires increased use of GPS tracking of those considered less likely to re-offend.

Forty lower-risk offenders are supervised by each parole agent, compared with 20 high-risk offenders per agent.

Melinda Silva, president of the Parole Agents Association of California, predicted the increased workload will overwhelm agents charged with tracking the movements of 40 sex offenders.

"We need to get them to 20-to-one," she said. "If they want to improve supervision, they've got to reduce caseload."

The change in policy also followed questions over the monitoring of Gardner, who has pleaded not guilty to murdering 17-year-old Chelsea King and assaulting another woman in the same park north of San Diego.

He also is under investigation but has not been charged in the slaying of 14-year-old Amber Dubois.

Records show officials decided not to send Gardner back to prison, even though he violated a condition of his parole by living too close to a daycare center.

http://www.modbee.com/2010/03/19/109...onitoring.html

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Judge Denies Garridos' Request To Visit One Another In Jail

POSTED: 12:15 pm PDT April 15, 2010
UPDATED: 12:31 pm PDT April 15, 2010

PLACERVILLE, Calif. -- A judge has denied a request for kidnapping suspects Phillip and Nancy Garrido to visit one another in jail.

However, the judge did grant them two more phone calls on a date yet to be set.

The couple is accused of the abduction of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was found last year in the Bay Area. She was kidnapped as a girl in 1991 from the El Dorado County community of Meyers, prosecutors said.

Phillip Garrido, a sex offender, is accused of fathering two daughters with Dugard.

A court hearing on Thursday afternoon was expected to focus on privacy issues involving Dugard and daughters.

http://www.kcra.com/news/23163285/detail.html

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Jun 24, 2010 3:29 pm US/Pacific

El Dorado County D.A. Criticizes Jaycee's Father

EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif. (CBS13) ―The El Dorado County District Attorney's Office on Thursday criticized Jaycee Lee Dugard's biological father for using the legal system to enter back into her life.

Kenneth Slayton, who is being represented by attorney Gloria Allred, filed a lawsuit against his daughter recently to "establish a parental relationship" after she said she wanted nothing to do with him or his family.

In a statement today, District Attorney Vern Pierson personally responded with disdain to several inquiries about his office's stand on the lawsuit.

"Frankly, it's disgusting. First, a man abducted and then forced himself upon Jaycee for 18 years. Now, her biological father seeks to force himself upon Jaycee using his attorneys and the legal system. It's a sad commentary on our society that a man who professes that all he wants (for his now 30 year old daughter) is to love and protect her, and damn it, he'll sue her for the right to do it."

The DA's office says the right of who Jaycee meets and when she meets them has been taken away from her for long enough.

Almost immediately after Jaycee was found last August, Slayton publicly announced he was her father, and retained a lawyer to help him establish his paternity.

Dugard's mother, Terry Probyn, has never denied Slayton was the father. She said she told Slayton about the pregnancy and about his daughter's birth, but he showed no interest. He was also told by authorities when Dugard was kidnapped, the statement said.

Last October, Slayton said he had never met Dugard because he did not know she existed until he briefly became a suspect in her 1991 kidnapping.

Outside of a court hearing regarding the suspects in Dugard's abduction, Slayton said he hoped to forge a relationship with Dugard. He said he attended the hearing for Phillip and Nancy Garrido, who have pleaded not guilty in the case, because "Jaycee Lee Dugard needs a father. She needs a masculine role model."

Dugard has been living privately in California with her mother and the two daughters she bore with Phillip Garrido while in captivity.

http://cbs13.com/breakingnews/jaycee...2.1771177.html

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July 1, 2010

Legislature OKs $20 million for kidnap victim Dugard

The state Legislature voted this morning to give kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard $20 million to head off a potentially larger judgment against the state for failing to adequately supervise her alleged kidnapper, prison parolee Phillip Garrido.

The $20 million was placed into an otherwise routine "claims bill," Assembly Bill 1714, on Wednesday. It passed the Senate 30-1 and the Assembly 62-0, sending it to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Because the bill cleared the Legislature in the new fiscal year and the state has not approved a budget, the governor will have to formally request that the measure come to his desk. Schwarzenegger spokesman Aaron McLear said the governor will ask for the bill and sign it.

Dugard was 11 years old when she was kidnapped off the street near her home in South Lake Tahoe in 1991, and authorities say she was held prisoner for nearly two decades in Garrido's Antioch home. He and his wife, Nancy Garrido, face numerous charges relating to the case and potentially face life in prison.

Dugard's attorneys filed multiple claims with the state Victims Compensation and Government Claims Board, alleging that Garrido was not adequately supervised while on parole for years following a 1977 conviction for kidnapping and rape. The claims were held in abeyance while negotiations with the state over a settlement continued.

The original case was in Nevada but California assumed responsibility for parole supervision after the Garridos relocated to California.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, according to information supplied to senators, agreed to submit the claims to mediation, and last week, a retired judge, Daniel Weinstein, mediated the case, resulting in the $20 million settlement even though the state continues to deny the specific allegations in the Dugard claims.

The $20 million will compensate Dugard and her two children for the counseling they will require and her lack of education during her years of confinement.

The move is unusual, because the claim has not reached the court. State analysts believed a jury award could be more expensive and deny Dugard compensation in the meantime.

"While CDCR is legally protected by well-established immunities, DOJ recognizes this case has a unique and tragic character," the legislative analysis says. "Although defendant's chances of prevailing ... appear good, DOJ states a potential damages award by a jury could be extremely high."

http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalert...-for-kidn.html

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Report Says California Parole Agents Spoke with Jaycee Dugard in Captivity

Published July 07, 2010

SACRAMENTO, Calif.--A report prepared by the state attorney general's office says California parole agents spoke to the woman who was held captive by a paroled rapist for 18 years and bore his two children, but never bothered to follow up.

The revelation about how parole agents missed another opportunity to rescue Jaycee Dugard is contained in a report obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press under the California Public Records Act.

Dugard, now 30, said parole agents spoke with her during her captivity, and with the older of the two daughters she bore to Phillip Garrido. Garrido has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping and raping Dugard, who was 11 when she disappeared.

The document was prepared by the attorney general's office and sent to lawmakers in advance of their vote last week to settle with the Dugard family for $20 million.

Dugard and her daughters, ages 15 and 12, claimed that state parole agents failed to properly supervise Garrido starting in 1999 and did not follow up on reports and observations that might have led to their rescue.

They finally surfaced last August, after living for nearly two decades in a compound in the backyard of Garrido's house in the eastern San Francisco Bay-area city of Antioch.

Previous reports from the state corrections department and an independent inspector general said parole agents had discovered one of the girls Garrido had fathered with Dugard but accepted his explanation that she was a niece. That contact was made in 2008 when the girl was 12.
Those reports made no mention of any contact between parole agents and Dugard while she was being held captive.

Inspector general spokeswoman Laura Hill declined to comment on the attorney general's internal report to lawmakers. Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said she could not immediately comment.

The report from the state attorney general's office gave a stark outline of the reasons the state agreed to settle the family's claim with such a large sum. In part, it said the claim is supported by a number of allegations, including "that agents saw and spoke to Ms. Dugard and her eldest daughter but failed to investigate their identities or their relationship to Garrido."

Attorney general's spokeswoman Christine Gasparac said the allegations were made by Dugard through her attorneys during settlement negotiations with the state. She said she could provide no other details, such as when the contact with parole agents occurred, and added that the state will not try to verify Dugard's statement because the damage claim against the state has been settled.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has said he will sign the settlement.

Dale Kinsella, Dugard's lawyer, said he could not comment on what was said during settlement negotiations. Dugard's spokeswoman, Nancy Seltzer, also had no comment.

The six-page attorney general's report also said the $20 million settlement with the Dugard family appears justified because of "the uniquely tragic circumstances."

It estimates it could cost $7 million to provide Dugard and her daughters with a lifetime of therapy and counseling and at least $450,000 to educate Dugard and her daughters, none of whom attended school during their captivity.

In their claim against the state, the Dugard family members claimed psychological, physical and emotional damages.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/07...-didnt-follow/