Counter Pedophilia Investigate Unit

On Friday, August 28; CNN broadcast an interview with Phillip Garrido, the man who admitted to abducting young Jaycee Dugard 18 years ago and holding her captive in the backyard of his residence in Antioch, California.   The registered sex offender and kidnapper called it a “powerful, heartwarming story.”

Jaycee Lee Dugard was just 11 years old when she was kidnapped on her way to school in South Lake Tahoe. Her stepfather, Carl Probyn, witnessed the abduction by a man and a woman in a gray Ford and pursued the vehicle on his mountain bike, but was unable to catch up. He asked a neighbor to call 911, but the kidnappers had a two minute head start. For years Probyn has been a suspect in the disappearance of his stepdaughter, the veil of suspicion unfairly dogging his life

The kidnapper and his wife, Phillip and Nancy Garrido, held Jaycee Dugard in a backyard compound, hidden from the sight of neighbors. For 18 years Jaycee was kept in isolation in a soundproof shed in a backyard compound that was so hidden from view that neighbors did not know it existed.  Jaycee was molested and raped and had two children  with her abductor, a registered sex offender. The children are now 11 and 15 years old.

At one point a neighbor had reported seeing children in the backyard, but the sheriff who visited the Dugards did not pursue the report any farther than to talk to Phillip and Nancy Garrido at their front door. As a registered sex offender, Garrido would have had visits by a parole officer, but apparently the officer never conducted a thorough investigation of the property.

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