When a child or children are abducted, life for a parent comes to a halt. Intense worry and thoughts of horror invade the senses, leaving you wondering why someone would do such a horrible thing to little ones so young and trusting. Innocence is a child’s right, and no creature has the right to take that from them.
You do everything you can think of to aid authorities in the search. You spin frantically from one thought to the next, only to drop from exhaustion once the centrifugal force of your anxiety reaches its terminus. Then it begins again in your dreams.
Needless to say, this is a horrible place for any child or parent to be. But if the clouds finally do roll away and that child reappears like Jaycee Lee Dugard, what can you do but live in that house of elation that has been baking slowly, hidden away in that corner of your heart? A mother-and-child/father-and-child reunion is pure joy. It is a housewarming.
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A 29-year-old woman presented herself at a San Francisco Bay area police station early Wednesday and told law enforcement officials that she was Jaycee Lee Dugard, who had been abducted from her school bus stop on June 10, 1991 when she was 11-years-old. El Dorado Sheriff’s Lt. Les Lovell said, “We’re 99 percent sure it’s her. DNA tests are being conducted and the woman is r
eported to be in good condition.The blonde, pony-tailed girl implicated her captors, 58-year-old convicted sex offender Phillip Craig Garrido and his 54-year-old wife Nancy Garrido. Both were arrested on Wednesday and are being held at the Contra Costa County Jail in the abduction of the South Lake Tahoe elementary school girl. Officers have reportedly searched the couple’s home in Antioch for evidence.
Garrido has spent time in prison following a conviction for rape and is now a registered sex offender - see photo below.
The woman’s mother Terry Probyn has spoken to Jaycee by telephone and is convinced it is her missing child. Probyn and her 19-year-old daughter are flying from their Orange County California home to meet with Jaycee in Northern California. Jaycee’s sister was just a year old when the girl went missing.
Dugard’s step
father Carl Probyn had been under suspicion as a possible accomplice to the crime by the FBI for many years because he was at the scene of the abduction. He reported that a couple had snatched Jaycee from her bus stop and sped away in a car. He gave chase on his bicycle but quickly lost sight of the vehicle.Several of the photos of Jaycee were age enhancements provided by Missing & Exploited Children that depict what she would have looked like at age 20 and as an adult. View Phillip Garrido mugshot from the California Sex Offenders registry and CBS video coverage below.
Phillip Garrido mugshot - courtesy wikiJaycee Lee Dugard enhancement p2
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