Kidnap girl Jaycee Lee Dugard worked in abductors’ business

Jaycee Lee Dugard became so accustomed to life imprisoned in a secret garden in California that she helped run her kidnappers’ family business.

The 29-year-old became the “front” for a printing company owned by Phillip and Nancy Garrido and run from their home in Antioch, near San Francisco. The prisoner dealt with its clients in person and by phone and e-mail. One customer of the firm, which printed business cards, described her as its “design genius”.

Dugard was abducted as an 11-year-old from her home in South Lake Tahoe, in northeastern California, in June 1991. She reappeared last week when Garrido, a convicted rapist, walked into a police station to talk to his parole officer. He was accompanied by Dugard, the two daughters, aged 15 and 11, she bore him during her captivity, and by his wife.

Phillip and Nancy Garrido denied 29 charges including kidnap and rape in court in El Dorado county on Friday. The FBI has confirmed it is seeking evidence that Garrido, 58, murdered up to 10 women, including some prostitutes, in the San Francisco area in the late 1990s.
Dugard is said to be relishing her freedom and is planning a trip to Disneyland with her family. The first words she said when reunited with her mother, Terry Probyn, at a motel last week were, “Mom, I have kids.”

Source:The times