Jaycee Dugard to Sue: 'Abduction and Abuse a Result of US Government Failings'
Jaycee Dugard is suing the U.S. government for not monitoring the sex offender who kidnapped her. Phillip Garrido, who was a registered sex offender at the time of Jaycee’s abduction, was granted an early parole in 1988 for a 1977 kidnapping and rape of another woman.
It was during his parole that Garrido and his wife Nancy managed to kidnap 11-year-old Dugard in 1991. Dugard was subsequently raped, gave birth to two children fathered by the kidnapper, and held captive for 18 years.
According to Reuters, Dugard’s attorney Dale Kinsella said that from December 1988 to March 1999, parole officers “failed on numerous occasions to properly monitor” Garrido.
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"We believe that the years of abuse experienced by Ms. Dugard are a direct result of the U.S. Parole Commission's colossal blunders in the supervision of Mr. Garrido," Kinsella told Reuters.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. It is not known how much she is suing the government for, but Dugard’s spokeswoman said all proceeds will go towards her nonprofit organization, the JAYC Foundation, which was set up to help other kidnapping victims and families of those abducted. .
To date, Dugard and her daughters have been awarded $20 million settlement from the state of California for the government’s failings. Her kidnapper Phillip Garrido was sentenced to 431 years to life in prison and his wife Nancy to 36 years life in prison.
