Accused Jaycee Kidnapper's Parole File Released
Saturday, February 13, 2010
AP
Jaycee Lee Dugard, shown in this family photo, was kidnapped at age 11 and allegedly held as a sex slave for 18 years.
Jaycee Lee Dugard, shown in this family photo, was kidnapped at age 11 and allegedly held as a sex slave for 18 years.
SAN FRANCISCO — Newly released parole records show that accused kidnapper Phillip Garrido complained in 2008 about having to wear a monitoring device because he had not been in trouble with the law for 19 years — nearly as long as he allegedly held Jaycee Dugard captive in his backyard.
The 120 pages of records released Friday by California corrections officials paint a portrait of a convicted rapist who, once he was released from federal and Nevada state prisons, appeared to grudgingly comply with the conditions set by parole agents. The parole followed his imprisonment for a 1977 conviction in the rape and kidnapping of a Nevada casino worker.
Numerous details on Garrido's background and Dugard's captivity have emerged since he was arrested in August, but the new documents that cover the period from June 1999 to the arrest shed more light on his activities and the approach taken by law enforcement. He and his wife, Nancy Garrido, have pleaded not guilty.
They were made available after several news organizations sued to have them made public. The parole file had previously been turned over to the Office of the Inspector General, which issued a report last fall blasting corrections officials for lapses in oversight and missing chances to catch Garrido sooner.
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The paperwork shows that in recent years, agents thought Garrido sometimes acted oddly. At least one agent saw a girl, who Garrido said was his niece, at the home. An agent also wrote notes about "cursory" visual inspections of the house.
"(Garrido) was acting very strange, weird to say the least by ranting on about God and loudly saying songs, other than that, nothing out of the ordinary," an agent wrote in June 2008.
When he was ordered to meet with his parole agent in April 2008 to receive an ankle monitor to check his whereabouts, Garrido submitted a one-page letter arguing that he should not have to wear it in part because he had founded a church and wanted to travel to the University of California, Berkeley to discuss his religion. The presentation, he claimed, "will gain the attention of world leaders."
"Be informed if you so choose to place me on this program I am advised to have an attorney present. The reasoning here is simple it concerns the continued progress and perfectly clean record I have with the State of California and the fact that I have nineteen years behind me. The program is as stated for: High Risk Sex offenders. The Sheriff's office has me at low risk and as a continued cooperative indivudal."
Saturday, February 13, 2010
AP
Jaycee Lee Dugard, shown in this family photo, was kidnapped at age 11 and allegedly held as a sex slave for 18 years.
Jaycee Lee Dugard, shown in this family photo, was kidnapped at age 11 and allegedly held as a sex slave for 18 years.
SAN FRANCISCO — Newly released parole records show that accused kidnapper Phillip Garrido complained in 2008 about having to wear a monitoring device because he had not been in trouble with the law for 19 years — nearly as long as he allegedly held Jaycee Dugard captive in his backyard.
The 120 pages of records released Friday by California corrections officials paint a portrait of a convicted rapist who, once he was released from federal and Nevada state prisons, appeared to grudgingly comply with the conditions set by parole agents. The parole followed his imprisonment for a 1977 conviction in the rape and kidnapping of a Nevada casino worker.
Numerous details on Garrido's background and Dugard's captivity have emerged since he was arrested in August, but the new documents that cover the period from June 1999 to the arrest shed more light on his activities and the approach taken by law enforcement. He and his wife, Nancy Garrido, have pleaded not guilty.
They were made available after several news organizations sued to have them made public. The parole file had previously been turned over to the Office of the Inspector General, which issued a report last fall blasting corrections officials for lapses in oversight and missing chances to catch Garrido sooner.
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The paperwork shows that in recent years, agents thought Garrido sometimes acted oddly. At least one agent saw a girl, who Garrido said was his niece, at the home. An agent also wrote notes about "cursory" visual inspections of the house.
"(Garrido) was acting very strange, weird to say the least by ranting on about God and loudly saying songs, other than that, nothing out of the ordinary," an agent wrote in June 2008.
When he was ordered to meet with his parole agent in April 2008 to receive an ankle monitor to check his whereabouts, Garrido submitted a one-page letter arguing that he should not have to wear it in part because he had founded a church and wanted to travel to the University of California, Berkeley to discuss his religion. The presentation, he claimed, "will gain the attention of world leaders."
"Be informed if you so choose to place me on this program I am advised to have an attorney present. The reasoning here is simple it concerns the continued progress and perfectly clean record I have with the State of California and the fact that I have nineteen years behind me. The program is as stated for: High Risk Sex offenders. The Sheriff's office has me at low risk and as a continued cooperative indivudal."
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