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Phillip Garrido, 60, a serial sex offender, was given the maximum possible sentence of 431 years to life in prison last month after pleading guilty to kidnapping and 13 sexual assault charges, including rape and committing lewd acts captured on video. She said she would think that despite her own terrible pain, “I have to comfort him?”

“He would tell me what an awful man he was,” Dugard said. Without going into many details, Dugard talked about the long, drug-fueled sex sessions Garrido would put her through, and said that to her great confusion he would cry afterward. “Some sounds and smells just don’t leave you.” “I can still hear it, consciously, when I’m awake,” Dugard said. She recalled the soundproof door of the backyard studio that Garrido shut and locked each time he left her. “I tried not to cry because I couldn’t wipe them away,” she said, “and then they get itchy.” There was no time to be embarrassed.”ĭugard said she tried to hold in her tears because of her cuffed hands. “I lost control of my bladder,” Dugard told Sawyer in one of many moments in the interview where she appeared astounded she was talking about herself. She said she heard Garrido laughing and telling his wife Nancy Garrido “I can’t believe we got away with it,” calling the moment “the most horrible moment in your life, times 10.” She described walking to the school bus stop on the day of a fifth-grade field trip and being zapped with a stun gun on a South Lake Tahoe street at age 11. You just do what you have to do to survive.” I can’t imagine being beaten to death, and you can’t imagine being kidnapped and raped. Asked by Sawyer how she stayed sane, Dugard said: “I don’t know. The interview came on the eve of Dugard’s memoir about her time in captivity, “A Stolen Life,” which will be released Tuesday.ĭugard told Sawyer there was “a switch” she had to shut off to emotionally survive her rape and imprisonment. The blond hair she had in now-familiar photographs from her childhood is now reddish-brown, and she wore a red sweater and a necklace with a pinecone charm on it, representing the last thing she touched before her 18-year captivity. I didn’t know how I was going to do that, but I did.”ĭugard appeared younger than her 31 years as she talked to Sawyer on a couch and on a porch at her California home. She said she didn’t know how she could protect the child, but said “I knew I could never let anything happen to her. “It was very painful,” said Dugard, 31, as tears welled in her eyes. When Sawyer asked how old she was at the time of the birth in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Antioch she said “14” with a small, incredulous laugh and a shake of her head. Barzee cannot legally be held in the Utah State prison beyond the length of her sentence.SAN FRANCISCO - Jaycee Dugard, the California woman kidnapped in 1991 and held captive for nearly two decades, talked through tears about both the pain and determination she felt as she gave birth to her captor’s child in his backyard while she was still just a girl.ĭugard was clear and composed throughout the interview with ABC News’ Diane Sawyer on her show “Primetime” that aired Sunday night, but grew emotional when she talked about seeing the first of two girls fathered by Phillip Garrido. Barzee will have spent 15 years in custody, which is the maximum amount of time allowed by her state conviction and sentence. "This is not an early release or a discretionary release. "The Board has heard concerns and requests to reconsider releasing Wanda Barzee," the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole said in a statement on Thursday. The board agreed, and moved up her release date on Tuesday. She was previously scheduled to be released in January 2024, and the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole denied her an early parole at a hearing in June of this year, the AP reported.īut Barzee was convicted on both state and federal charges, and her attorney, Scott Williams, argued that time she had already served in federal prison must be credited towards her state conviction, according to the Salt Lake City Tribune. Elizabeth Smart shocked about abuser's early release: 'She did appalling things while I was in captivity'
