Amelia Cunningham
Legal Writing/Research
Borgert
August 05,2011
The Kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard
On June 10, 1991 a young girl named Jaycee was at her bus stop waiting to got o school. At this time she was eleven years old. As she waited for her bus a strange car pulled up and a man and woman got out of the car and snatched Jaycee up. Her father got on a bike and tried to catch up to the car but was not successful and they got away. The cops were called immediately but she was not found, in fact she remained missing for more than eighteen years. There were many leads but they all turned up dry.
On August 25, 2009 a convicted sex offender named Phillip Garrido visited the campus at US Berkeley with two young girls. Their behavior at that time was so bizarre that it got people’s attention and Phillip and the two girls were led to a parole office along with a fifty-four year old women named Nancy Garrido. Nancy and Phillip were arrested for kidnapping about 10 years earlier which they pled guilty to but were out now. The Garrido’s had kept Jaycee in a tent in the back yard for eighteen years along with the two children Jaycee bore. Phillip had been sexually abusing Jaycee from the time she was kid napped all the way up till she was found.
Before Jaycee was kidnapped a young girl from California named Katherine Callaway was kidnapped by Phillip, he also sexually assaulted her. He was arrested and sentenced to 50 years but was released in 1988.
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While Jaycee was being held captive she had had two daughter and they grew up thinking and telling everyone that they were Jaycee’s sister not their mother. Their living quarters consisted of a couple of tents in the back yard, they had camping-style bathrooms and shower as well. They had a privacy fence and lots of tall trees so the neighbors would stay out of their business. What is really crazy is the police had visited the Garrido’s quite frequently over the years but never gave the backyard more than a quick inspection. What should have really got the police’s attention were the electrical cords that ran from the house to the tents.
There were definitely some missed opportunities to rescue Jaycee and her children. First Jaycee was kidnapped in the same location as Katherine, Phillips first victim. Second the fire department had responded to a call to the Garrido’s home about a child with a shoulder injury, but none of information was released to Phillips parole officer; you see he was not allowed to have any contact with children or be near them. Third, one of Garrido’s neighbors called the police and reported that there were children living in tents in the backyard, and when the police showed up they just talked with Phillip at the front of the house for thirty minutes, and just informed him that he would get a code violation if there were people living outside the property and left. Fourth, and this one blows my mind, the California office of the Inspector General issued a report, and their central finding were that Garrido was incorrectly classified as needing only low-level supervision, when he went to inspect Garrido’s house the parole agent found a 12 year old girl and just accepted Phillips excuse that she was his brothers daughter and did nothing to verify this.
On August 24, 2009 Phillip had visited the University of California wanting to hold a special Christian event on the campus dealing with his “God’s Desire” program, the special events manager Lisa Campbell thought that Phillip’s behavior was very odd and asked him to make an appointment for the next day. So the next day when Phillip showed up for his meeting he had also brought along Jaycee’s two little girls and introduced then as his daughters. Everyone though the children were acting strange as well and they did a background check on Phillip and found he had been convicted for rape and phoned his parole officer. So later that day two parole agents drove to Garrido’s home and handcuffed Phillip, but they found no one home. So they told Phillip to report in the next day to discuss their concerns about the two girls. The next day Phillip arrived at the parole office with his wife, the two little girls and Jaycee. The officers then separated the girls from the Garrido’s. When they did this Jaycee Aka Alyssa stated that she was the girl’s mother, the police were like “you look to young to be a mother,” and Jaycee just laughed and said she was 29 and got that a lot. The police continued to question her and she stated she might need a lawyer. She was showing signature signs of Stockholm syndrome. A little later Jaycee finally admitted she was from Minnesota and had been kidnapped. Phillip and his wife were placed under arrest. Jaycee was then reunited with her mother. What was really sad was Jaycee and her kids had developed an emotional bond with Phillip and cried when they found out he was being arrested. On June 28, 2011, Phillip Garrido was sentenced to 431 years, and he wife received 36 year to life. Jaycee is now living with her mother and her children and is very happy.
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