Woman found after 18 years

[gribz]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8225621.stm

Read this and Madeline McCann sprang to mind.

At least she is still only 29 and has plenty time to live some live.

[sac123abc]

yeah screw the fact that she was molested over and over by the sick F8$& and she got pregnant twice by him and she didnt have a childhood and he took her childhood, womenhood from her.

Yeah gribz I guess she is lucky, NOT

[gribz]

yeah screw the fact that she was molested over and over by the sick F8$& and she got pregnant twice by him and she didnt have a childhood and he took her childhood, womenhood from her.

Yeah gribz I guess she is lucky, NOT

Who mentioned she is lucky??? Dont get me wrong, that bastard should be hung. But rather than dwelling on her hell for 18 years (the memories wont go away) she can go on now and live life. Its all about mental strength for her and having good people around her now.

[ozpixie]

We have to hope she gets the support and whatever other help she needs and is left alone by the jackals of the media and the ambulance chasing lawyers.

[clozaril]

looking at US websites and it isn't their top story yet it's top story here in pedophilia obsessed UK.

[krakhead]

At first I thought - Wow! What an amazing game of hide and seek THAT was! :D

:o

Anyway - a fantastically delusional quote from the kidnapper -

"If you take this a step at a time, you're going to fall over backward and in the end you're going to find the most powerful, heart-warming story," he said.

"I tell you here's the story of what took place at this house and you're going to be absolutely impressed.

WTF?! Just goes to show the power of self-delusion doesn't it? This guy has flipped his reality tunnel upside down enabling him to perceive his abduction, kidnap, imprisonment and sexual assault of a minor as a "a heart-warming story"

[tyler]

There is something not quite right about all these abduction stories in the press the past few years. This seems to be a new phenomenon. I don't ever remember reading about so many cases like this as I grew up.

There is the Austrian girl held in a cellar by her father, a German girl, the Belgium girls and more.

What's behind all this? I see they drag the McCann case into it as well.

Any ideas?

[coco]

http://news.aol.com/article/kidnapped-girl-jaycee-dugard-walks-into/643351

PLACERVILLE, Calif. (Aug. 27) — A little girl snatched on her way to school was kept hidden from the world behind a series of fences, sheds and tents for nearly two decades, even giving birth to her suspected abductor's children in the suburban backyard compound less than 200 miles from the home where she was taken.

Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was 11 when she was abducted from a South Lake Tahoe street in 1991, was taken directly to the house and sheltered from the world in a secret, leafy backyard, investigators said Thursday.

Her abductor, investigators said, raped her and fathered two children with her, the first when Jaycee was about 14. Those children, both girls now 11 and 15, also were kept hidden away in the backyard compound behind the Antioch home.

"None of the children have ever been to school, they've never been to a doctor," El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said. "They were kept in complete isolation in this compound."

Even a parole agent who visited 58-year-old Phillip Garrido's home didn't have an inkling about the hidden compound, Kollar said. Garrido is a registered sex offender on federal parole for rape and kidnapping convictions.

"The way the house is set up, the way the backyard is set up, you could walk through the backyard, walk through the house, and never know," Kollar said.

But neighbors said there were clues even before a parole agent on Wednesday noticed Dugard, now 29, who accompanied Garrido, his wife and the children to a parole office.

Neighbor Diane Doty said she could see the tents and often heard children playing in the backyard, the corner of which abuts her own backyard. She said she even suspected the children lived in the tents, but her husband said she should leave the family alone.

"I asked my husband, 'Why is he living in tents?'" she said. "And he said, 'Maybe that is how they like to live.'"

Garrido, 58, is being held for investigation of various kidnapping and sex charges. Authorities said his 54-year-old wife, Nancy Garrido, was with him during the kidnapping in South Lake Tahoe and she also has been arrested.

The case broke after Garrido was spotted Tuesday with two children as he tried to enter the University of California, Berkeley, campus to hand out religious literature. Officers said he was acting suspiciously toward the children. They questioned him and did a background check, determined that he was a parolee and informed his parole officer.

Garrido was ordered to appear for a parole meeting and arrived Wednesday with Dugard, who identified herself as "Allissa," his wife, and two children. During questioning, corrections officials said he admitted to kidnapping Dugard.

Investigators said he did not yet have an attorney.

Dugard was reunited Thursday with her mother as her family learned that their blue-eyed, blonde ponytailed little girl had spent most of her life in captivity. Police said they had no evidence that she had ever reached out to anyone beyond the compound walls.

"She was in good health, but living in a backyard for the past 18 years does take its toll," Kollar said.