Kidnap victim: My life was stolen

A kidnapping victim who was held captive for 18 years has said her life was stolen by her abductors.

Jaycee Dugard made her first public statement about her ordeal in an emotional declaration her mother read on her behalf today at the sentencing hearing for defendants Phillip and Nancy Garrido.

The defendants pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping Dugard when she was 11.

She was confined to a hidden backyard compound where she eventually lived with two daughters fathered by Phillip Garrido.

In her victim impact statement, Ms Dugard says she hated every second of every day for those 18 years.

Ms Dugard told Nancy Garrido that her actions were evil and wrong.