On June 10, , Jaycee Lee Dugard , an eleven-year-old girl, was abducted from a street while walking to a school bus stop in Meyers, California , United States. Searches began immediately after Dugard's disappearance, but no reliable leads were generated, even though several people witnessed the kidnapping. Dugard remained missing for over 18 years until , when a convicted sex offender , Phillip Garrido, visited the campus of the University of California, Berkeley , accompanied by two adolescent girls, who were discovered to be the biological daughters of Garrido and Dugard, on August 24 and 25 of that year.
The unusual behavior of the trio sparked an investigation that led Garrido's parole officer , Edward Santos Jr, [ 2 ] to order Garrido to take the two girls to a parole office in Concord, California , on August Garrido was accompanied by a woman who was eventually identified as Dugard.
Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were arrested after Dugard's reappearance. On April 28, , they pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping Dugard. Investigators revealed that Dugard had been kept in concealed tents, sheds, and lean-tos in an area behind the Garridos' house at Walnut Avenue in Antioch, California , where Phillip repeatedly raped Dugard during the first six years of her captivity. During her confinement, Dugard gave birth to two daughters, who were aged eleven and fifteen at the time of Dugard's reappearance.
On June 2, , Garrido was sentenced to years to life imprisonment ; his wife, Nancy, was sentenced to 36 years to life. Garrido is a person of interest in at least one other missing persons case in the San Francisco Bay Area. As Garrido had been on parole for a rape at the time of her kidnapping, Dugard sued the state of California, which had taken over his parole supervision from the federal government in , [ 3 ] on account of the numerous lapses by law enforcement that contributed to her continued captivity and sexual assault.
Dugard also sued the federal government on similar grounds pertaining to Garrido's time as a federal parolee, but in a 2β1 ruling, the 9th U. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed that suit because Garrido had not victimized her at the time he was placed under the supervision of the federal parole system and that as a result of this, "there was no way to anticipate she would become his victim. Her second book, Freedom: My Book of Firsts , was published in Jaycee Dugard's biological father, Ken Slayton, was not involved in her life, nor in the investigation that followed her kidnapping.
