The Antioch area remained in the spotlight Sunday, as major media organizations continued their coverage of the Jaycee Dugard case and suspect Phillip Garrido.
On Sunday, the New York Times published a story about the 40-some images shot by English photographer Nick Stern of the compound where, authorities say, Garrido kept Dugard, while a second piece explored how the case may affect a vote Monday that the California Assembly is scheduled to take on prison reform. That vote would save money and parole more prisoners early.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times weighed in with a story on the Antioch area's high concentration of sex offenders.
According to the New York Times story about the photos, the images were published Sunday in The Sunday Times of London, The New York Post and some web sites. Based on an interview with Stern, a photographer from Los Angeles, the New York Times said he jumped a fence Friday and "did not consider the lot — which was surrounded by a fence and dotted with trees — a crime scene.
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It's a nightmare that shoots fear through the heart of every parent. Your child is abducted, and you never hear from her or about her again.
In 1991, 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop near her South Lake Tahoe home. Last week, 29-year-old "Allissa" admitted she was Jaycee and had been imprisoned for 18 years as a sex slave by "Creepy Phil" (neighbor's words) Garrido in sheds and tents concealed in his backyard in Antioch, Calif., some 170 miles away.
She bore him two daughters, the first when she was 14. According to the El Dorado County Sheriff's office, neither Jaycee nor either of the girls had ever been to a doctor, or to school.
Political correctness protected Creepy Phil, but ultimately did him in.
First, PC twisted the investigation of Jaycee's kidnapping.
For all these years, law enforcement has been fixated on their prime suspect in Jaycee's abduction: her stepfather, Carl Probyn. His life was made a living hell of investigation followed by more investigation by one agency and then another. His grief-stricken wife divorced him.
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