Abducted girl returns home after 18 years
August 28, 3:01 AM
A young woman walked into a San Francisco Bay police station on Wednesday and identified herself as Jaycee Lee Dugard, who had been abducted from South Lake Tahoe 18 years ago. The young woman was abducted by a sex offender while she was walking to school, according to reports on CNN. Ms. Dugard had two children with the sex offender in the past 18 years. They were not allowed to go to school and were kept in isolation in a backyard compound in Antioch, California. Phillip and Nancy Garridow were taken into custody in connection with the abduction of Jaycee Dugard in 1991.
It is amazing story, both encouraging and sad. Encouraging, because this missing child finally came home. Sad, because of what she must have endured over the past 18 years.
CNN Anderson Cooper interviewed Elizabeth Smart and her father. Smart had been abducted two years ago and was held for several months. Anderson Cooper questioned Smart about her advice to Jaycee Lee Dugard. Smart replied that no one knows what she has been through and that it is important that she be allowed to talk about her experiences in her own time. Anderson Cooper interview withEd Smart and Elizabeth Smart.
August 27, 2009
360 Interview: Elizabeth Smart and her father, Ed
Posted: 11:55 PM ET
Anderson CooperAC360° Anchor
An 11-year-old California girl snatched from the street in front of her house in 1991 had two children with the man accused of taking her and lived in a secret backyard shed, authorities said Thursday.
The 18-year mystery of what happened to Jaycee Dugard ended this week when a sex offender admitted to corrections authorities that he abducted her.
Since her kidnapping, Dugard has lived in her alleged abductor’s backyard, in a shed. All of this played out in a residential neighborhood.
We spoke to Ed Smart and his daughter Elizabeth. The Smarts lived through a similar nightmare, when Elizabeth was snatched from her bedroom in the middle of the night in 2002. She was found nine months later.
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