First thoughts
MOST of us are familiar with Jaycee Dugard’s story. We’re aware that the American was kidnapped at age 11; and that she was kept in a back yard until her release 18 years later. We learned, with horror, of her jailers, the mentally unstable Phillip Craig Garrido and his strange wife Nancy. We could only imagine what Jaycee had been through, missing out on life, and giving birth to two daughters, one at just 14.
Two years after her release, Jaycee has penned her story. It’s a heartrending account detailing all that has happened to her from that terrible day, June 10, 1991, until the present. It’s difficult reading about the initial weeks and months of her capture; of her imprisonment in a tiny room, where she was left handcuffed; of the first rape; and of the sexual marathons when Garrido would keep going by taking drugs.
