Jaycee Duggard was 11 years old when she was snatched off the street by two people in a car near her home in South Lake Tahoe in full view of her step-father in 1991. She had been kept in backyard sheds at the house of her kidnappers for 18 years and is the mother of two girls, 15 and 11, fathered by Philipp Garrido, a convicted and listed sex-offender, who kidnapped her with his wife. The man was on the UC Berkeley campus near San Francisco with the two young girls 25 August when his behavioiur with the two girls aroused suspicion. Police made a background check and took him into custody. Duggard, now 29, has been reunited with her mother. BBC, CNN

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  1. David Ray Says:
    August 31st, 2009 at 9:12 pm

    Though the degrees of horror vary a great deal, & this latest case is as bad as it gets short of murder, there is always the history of denial, people who witness yet do nothing, as I described in my memoir, The Endless Search, years of betrayal not only from the abductor but from all directions.
    David Ray http://www.davidraypoet.com

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