Jaycee Dugard

Jaycee Dugard is suing the federal government for not properly monitoring Phillip Garrido, the man who abducted her when she was 11.

Jaycee was the woman who was kidnapped in 1991 when she walked to school one day and was taken prisoner by Phillip Garrido, a convicted rapist, and his wife. The couple kept Jaycee a prisoner in their backyard and forced her to give birth to two of Garrido’s sons over the course of 18 years.

When she was kidnapped in 1991, her kidnapper was out of parole for kidnapping and rape charges and all those years she spent captive in Garrido’s backyard, his parole officers never suspected that he was hiding Jaycee back there.

For the first 8 years of her kidnapping, Parole officers from the California Department of Corrections visited the Garrido home over 60 times, even talking to Dugard on at least one occasion but did nothing to help her.