Friday, August 28, 2009

In One Story: Hell, Miracle, Sex Offender & Religious Fanatic

In this story:

Jaycee Lee Dugard, now aged 29, was reunited with her mother on Thursday after revealing during an interview with her kidnapper's parole officer that she was the victim of one of California's oldest unsolved crimes. It was her first known appearance in public since her abduction. She disappeared when a man and a woman pulled her kicking and screaming into a car at a school bus stop just yards from her home in South Lake Tahoe.

...Police said Phillip Garrido, a 58-year-old registered sex offender and religious fanatic, and his wife Nancy, 54, have been arrested in connection with the case and were expected to be charged on Friday with rape, kidnapping, lascivious behaviour with a minor and other offences.

...Terry Probyn, Jaycee's mother, was flying to northern California from her home in the south of the state, after first receiving a call on Wednesday from the FBI telling her that a woman had turned up at police station claiming to be her daughter. Her stepfather, Carl Probyn, who witnessed her abduction, said Jaycee's reappearance was "definitely a miracle".

..."I'm feeling great! ... It's like winning the lotto. I've gone through hell," Mr Probyn said, conceding that police and even members of the extended family had regarded him with suspicion for months after the kidnapping.

4 comments:

yoni said...

good eye, mr. medad. i don't know if anyone else got what you were pointing out here but i did, and i approve.

jacob watson said...

I say burn him

thomas jones said...

This is crazy, to believe that the search stopped and she was alive accepting the fact that people gave up on her...damn.

Lisa said...

It is a miracle that she is alive. I pray that she can recover from this ordeal.