CA Dept. of Justice Says it Failed in Monitoring Paroled Sex Offender
State lawmakers early this monthy voted to pay Jaycee Lee Dugard and her family a $20-million settlement for the state's failure to rescue Dugard earlier than the 18 years she was held captive by a paroled sex offender. California's Department of Justice prepared a report for lawmakers with legal analysis of the case prior to the vote. The report concluded that the California Department of Corrections and Rebabilitation and parole agents did meet Dugard on a supervised visit with her captor and could have rescued her, but failed to identify her.
Dugard was kidnapped by Phillip Garrido in 1991 while she walked to school. Garrido kept her for 18 years in a shack in the back of his ramshackle compound outside of Oakland. Dugard was raped repeatedly and gave birth to two daughters, now 12 and 15. Dugard, now 30, and her daughters were all denied access to school and medical services. Garrido was eventually arrested after a UC Berkeley police officer became suspicious when he saw Garrido with the two young girls passing out religious fliers on campus and called police.
