JAYCEE LEE DUGARD: A HAPPY SMILE REASSURES US ALL
The first Public images of Jaycee Lee Dugard are published by People Magazine. Jaycee said, “I’m so happy to be back with my family”, she told the magazine. “Nothing is more important than the unconditional love and support I have from them.” How marvellous Jaycee looks. Conveying hope to so many families with missing children and inspiring the rest of us. I am both moved and inspired to see a photograph of Jaycee that is a testimony to how well she is recovering now she is back with her mother and family.
Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped in 1991 when she was just 11 years old. An ordinary, normal short walk from her home in South Lake Tahoe, California to the school bus stop, within sight of the house, ended with Jaycee being snatched. Carl Probyn, Jaycee’s stepfather, standing in the garage entrance of their home, watched her walk towards the school bus stop a short distance away. The family’s world fell apart when a woman then grabbed Jaycee and hauled her into a gray sedan before speeding off. Carl’s fervent efforts to chase after the gray sedan on his bike were hopeless.
Angel, 15, and Starlit, 11, are Jaycee’s daughters, apparently fathered by Phillip Garrido, 58; a registered sex offender who police say raped her repeatedly over the years. Phillip Garrido’s home was outside Antioch, CA. It was in the backyard and backgarden that Jaycee and her children lived. They had never been to school or seen a Doctor.
The house is in the name of his ailing mother who lives there with Garrido and his wife, Nancy, 54.
This backyard area, overhanging by mimosa trees and hidden by a high fence, featured a hellish warren of four tents and five shacks.It was in this cluster of grimy tents and windowless shacks that Jaycee and her two daughters lived.
Now Phillip and Nancy Garrido face a combined total of 29 felony charges, including forcible abduction, rape and false imprisonment in connection with the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991. Garrido remains in custody at the El Dorado County Jail in Placerville, California, as he and his wife Nancy Garrido await trial.
Jaycee and her two daughters are now living in seclusion with her mom, Terry Probyn, 50, and family. A family spokeswoman said Jaycee was riding horses, cooking meals and thinking of collaborating on a book.
These photos are almost too good. If we are not careful we could allow ourselves to mask over or dismiss or even diminish Jaycee’s horrific ordeal from the age of 11 years old to a 29 year old mother of two.
They do however give us all hope. The sort of hope that comes from seeing another human being putting on a heartwarming smile even after suffering 18 years of hell.
It is truly inspiring.
Lets all wish her well on her road to recovery.
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