Jaycee Lee Dugard: Phillip Garrido 'kidnapped, drugged and repeatedly raped 14-year-old nearly 40 years ago'
The monster who held Jaycee Lee Dugard captive for eighteen years was released by police after being arrested for raping and drugging a 14-year-old-schoolgirl 37 years ago, it was revealed last night.The extraordinary new development raised new questions over why Phillip Garrido was allowed to remain free to abduct Jaycee when she was eleven-years-old.
Police said the earlier attack happened in Antioch, California - the same town where Jaycee was locked up in Garrido’s back garden prison - in April, 1972.
Left, Phillip Garrido's mugshot after his arrest in 1977 for the rape of Katherine Callaway, and right, a police photograph of Garrido from the 1976 investigation into Callaway's rape. Yet another woman raped by Garrido has now come forward
He was freed on parole in 1988, only to snatch Jaycee from the street three years later as she walked to school.
Authorities in the northern California town have also come under fire after failing to catch Garrido earlier even though neighbours complained several times about children living in the registered sex offender’s garden.
Police said yesterday that the victim in the 1972 attack was drugged with barbiturates after meeting Garrido and an accomplice at the town library and driven to a nearby hotel where she was repeatedly raped.
Memories: Jaycee's family have released more pictures of their daughter, which is all they had to remember her by during her years in captivity
‘After being given more barbiturates, she woke up in the motel. She remembers Garrido being there and she remembers being repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted by him,’ said Antioch police Lt Leonard Orman.
‘At some point a day or two later her mother and father find her there.’
He said Garrido, who was still with the girl at the motel, was arrested and charged with rape and providing drugs to a minor.
‘But it seems that the prosecution was dropped,’ he added.
The earlier victim contacted police last week after Garrido’s arrest.
‘She has a lot of concern about what Mr Garrido has done since the 1972 incident.
‘I think there is a good chance there were other victims,’ he added.
The Antioch public library where Phillip Garrido was accused of kidnapping and repeatedly raping a 14-year-old girl more than 30-years-ago
Police search the shed next to the Antioch home where Jaycee was held for 18 years. Her aunt said the family are not questioning her about her ordeal
While the rest of the world was shocked by the unfolding details of her long ordeal, Jaycee and the two daughter she had with captor Phillip Garrido looked forward to a new life with their family.
‘There’s a sense of comfort and optimism. Jaycee and her girls are happy. The darkness and despair has lifted,’ said Tina Dugard, 42, who spent five days with them after their back garden prison was finally discovered.
The aunt offered the first eyewitness account of the emotional reunion as it was revealed that Garrido’s wife, Nancy, went to work caring for the handicapped while she kept Jaycee locked up at home to be repeatedly raped by her evil husband.
Neighbours have been hanging pink ribbons as a sign of solidarity outside Jaycee's mother's house in Riverside, California
‘The people who received services through her, they liked her very much,’ said Barbara Maizie, executive director of the state-registered Contra Costa agency in northern California.
‘She was a good employee and she was well liked by the people she worked with. They cannot believe that this is possible. They’re totally shocked,’ she added.
All the time that Garrido lovingly worked with the disabled, Jaycee was forced to live in a tent hidden in the couple’s back garden.
Garrido worked for four years for the agency, between 1994 and 1998, after showing her bosses an immaculate CV with reference for her nursing care dating back to 1981.
One of Jaycee’s biggest regrets is allowing her parents to worry about her for so long.
‘She’s in a state of shock, but Jaycee also feels guilty for not having called her mum or dad or anyone - even though she was a captive,’ said her step-grandmother Wilma Probyn.
But Tina Dugard, a schoolteacher from Riverside, California, said the reunion has gone incredibly smoothly.
Rapist Phillip Garrido, who fathered Jaycee's two children
Children Starlite, fifteen, and Angel, eleven, have been kept away from the news on TV and in the newspapers.
‘Right now, it’s about reconnecting,’ said Tina.
While in captivity, Jaycee taught her daughters how to read and write.
‘They are educated and bright,’ Tina said of the children.
Tina said she was not sure how her niece was able to teach her daughters how to read and write.
But she said that during her five-day visit she was staring up at the sky on a starry night with one of Jaycee's daughters, who then pointed out the names of constellations.
Seeing a plant, the other daughter said: 'That's a nasturtium. It's edible. Do you want to eat it?'
Ms Dugard said that Jaycee remembered who she was the moment they met, flinging her arms around her saying: 'Auntie Tina'.
'I looked at her and I knew right away,' she said. 'After 18 years, you have a sense of: 'Could this possibly be true?'
'She absolutely knew who I was. She remembered me right away. ... It was one of the happiest moments of my life.'
'I went forward and cried and hugged her and held her as tight as I possibly could. It was surreal, and it was fabulous.'
Ms Dugard said the family are not grilling the girls about what happened while they were in captivity with Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy.
She would not comment on aspects of the ongoing investigation, such as how Jaycee and her daughters were treated by the Garridos.
She said Jaycee's daughters 'know what's been going on,' but they have not been allowed to watch television or read any coverage of the Garrido story.
The Garrido home has now been boarded up, fenced off, and red-tagged by the Contra Costa County building inspectors, who have deemed the home unsafe
Ms Dugard wouldn't say whether the two girls, as some media outlets have reported, had believed Jaycee was their older sister.
They know Jaycee is their mother but for now it's about getting to know each other again.
'It's all about strengthening those bonds that really didn't weaken, but needed to be brought back together,' she said.
'There's a sense of comfort and optimism, a sense of happiness,' she said. 'Jaycee and her girls are happy.
'People probably want to think that it's been this horrible, scary thing for all of us. [But] the horrible, scary thing happened 18 years ago, and continued to happen for the last 18 years.
'The darkness and despair [has lifted]. [There was] laughing and crying and sitting quietly and holding hands.'
She said that Jaycee and her daughters to be in good health and are very close.
'She does seem like a 29-year-old woman,' she said of Jaycee. 'She's fabulous, and she's beautiful.
'All three are very tight. There was a lot of sitting next to each other.'
Police are making a thorough search of the Garrido property. A bone fragment was found earlier this week
She recalled the youngest daughter sitting beside her sister on a love seat and throwing her legs over her - just like a sister would do.
They have played board games and watched the movie Enchanted on DVD, on another night.
They talked about recent movies, and Jaycee said she wanted to see the Sandra Bullock romantic comedy, 'The Proposal.' Jaycee also read a lot.
'She likes mysteries,' Tina added.
The girls also played Nintendo. One of the girls loves the Zelda games, and both love Super Mario Smash Brothers.
The girls talked of their love of animals, and climbing trees.
Ms Dugard said she was optimistic about the girls, adding: 'I'm a teacher. I know kids. And I can tell you that they are a normal 11- and 15-year-old.'
Ms Dugard still has the Barbie doll she had bought for her niece the first Christmas she went missing in 1991. It is still in its box, sitting on a table in her living room.
Jaycee was kidnapped earlier that year after her family moved to South Lake Tahoe, from Orange County.
'I kept thinking: 'Tomorrow. They'll find her tomorrow',' she recalled. 'Then it was: 'For sure by the weekend.'
'Then it was: 'By Thanksgiving. I know it won't pass'. And then: 'For sure it will be Christmas.' '
Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy, 54, were arrested last week and charged in the kidnapping, rape and imprisonment of Jaycee. The couple has pleaded not guilty.
Ms Dugard said that her other niece, Jaycee's sister Shayna, is bonding with the sibling she hasn't seen since she was one.
Shayna told her sister, Jaycee, that she was so happy to meet her, Ms Dugard said. There was an 'instant connection... it was almost a genetic connection ... an instant sense of family, for all of us.'
'The fact that (Jaycee) is home sinks in in little pieces...she's there, and we know she's there, but sometimes you're just taken aback by the joy, and it bursts out.
'I may never know what happened [to Jaycee]," she said. "But she's home.'
Article from: Mail Online.
