jc lee dugard was 11 years old when she was kidnapped everyone thought there's no way she's still alive pretty young innocent child we've never heard of a child being found after 18 years new details in the jc dugard case very happy to be in front of you under these circumstances when she reappeared everyone was wondering how did she survive that long i can't fathom how i kept it together how could she have been abducted in broad daylight jc's stepfather watched helplessly from a distance this has never happened before every parent's worst nightmare why is it
that probation officers failed to find her 60 times that's what i don't get i offer my apologies mr mesner we just want to ask you a question they hear a report they're kids living in a backyard and they're not curious at all find out how her captors evaded authorities if you stay in this front room place you in restraint because right now i'm searching the house oh he's an arrogant little guy isn't he and what happened 18 years later that led to her rescue i happen to just turn and see the two young girls and
something's not right what's the one mistake parents should never make but you never think it's going to happen to you pure hell for 18 years how did j.c reid dugard come face to face with death and escape i wanted to see her more than anything jc walks up the hill in front of her house to catch the school bus when she reaches the road a grey car pulls up beside her and cuts her off she freezes the man inside rolls down the window and his hand shoots out and i just feel numb he shocks her
with a stun gun my whole body is tingly i don't know what it's from she falls instantly to the ground unconscious before he grabs her and shoves her inside the back of the car 9-1-1 this is dangling on pioneer boulevard my daughter was just kidnapped top of the hill was a great forge a man or woman in the car she comes to face down on the floor in the back seat of a car the man behind the wheel is philip garrido a convicted sex offender holding her down on the floor as his wife nancy after
we were driving for a while i heard the driver say i can't believe we got away with it and he started laughing it was like the most horrible moment of your life the gurritos drive their captive 150 miles to a blue house in a neighborhood near san francisco garrido strips off her clothes and puts a blanket over her head he takes the naked child into this shed completely proof he tells her he's going to put her in handcuffs he sees me hesitating and picks up the stun gun he explains to me that he took me
so i could help him with his problem so he wouldn't have to bother anyone else he says that by me giving him an outlet i am saving others and then he said he'd be back later and he shut the soundproof door and then the other door with the lock have you seen jc lee dugard 120 miles away her loving mother searches relentlessly for her missing child she even goes on national tv to plea for help pretty young innocent child and it's time that she comes home what followed was a massive search for jaycee friends have
been searching with her all day and evening police started searching police set up a roadblock and go door-to-door parole officers come to the garrito house j.c dugard is being held captive just 30 feet away you can hear nancy garrido attempting to distract the officer pestering it what does a parole agent do for his parole league man you can come into office and we'll discuss that appropriate time right now i'm going to search and i'm really up if you stay in this front room and i don't have to place you in restraints because right now i'm
searching the house and so the parole officer leaves i'm doing everything i'm supposed to do i know it they never looked hard enough in the backyard there is a window above my bed there is a towel and blinds covering the window so i can only see a little bit of light i grabbed the corner of the towel with my teeth and wiggled and maneuvered until i could see out of the window as best i could she sees moonlight streaming from the towel it makes her think of her mother we would always sit on the porch
and we would debate whether the full moon or the crescent moon was the better moon just always made me think of her i sing to myself the song we used to sing together i see the moon and the moon sees me god bless the moon and god bless me i miss her so much i wanted to see her more than anything worried i'd forget what she looked like girl what she sounded like would she forget me that night 120 miles away her mother looked up at the same moon thinking of her june 2nd i miss
her i wonder what she thinks about i wonder if she ever thinks about me sometimes i hope she doesn't because i don't want her to be sad and sometimes i wonder if she is happier that i'm not around anymore [Music] and when garrito happened to notice the little girl had signed her name jacy on that journal i actually wrote my name and i tore it out when he saw it because he said you had to yes that was the last time i remember crying just tears running down my face her mother is still pleading with
everyone to keep on searching for her she is coming home that gives me a lot of hope a lot of optimism somebody's you know feeding me dreams for a reason asking police to keep looking she never gives up hope even as one year passes and a second she even kept jacy's little bedroom untouched and i definitely like to be in here being next to her even though she's not here she's still in my heart and two hours away in the backyard jc dugard is still bolted in not allowed to go outside one night the gurritos
are with her and then they tell you they think you're pregnant yeah jc dugard started to feel strange she starts to go into labor no one is around she's alone trapped in the shed the contractions last into the night i twist and turn and try to find a comfortable position but nothing helps it seems like it is taking forever and the baby is still not coming i've never been in so much pain in my life she came out and then i saw her she was beautiful i i felt like i wasn't alone anymore i had
somebody and i knew i could never let anything happen to her i didn't know how i was going to do that but i did three years later another birth in the backyard hi my name is terry i have an 11 year old daughter named jc lee dugard i've not seen jc in seven years there was an extensive search in the beginning we did a massive poster mailing we did everything we possibly could to help find her and all i can think about all i can remember is not being able to hold her and hug her
and kiss her by this time august 2009 jc dugard had long since stopped looking at the moon as she used to do with her mother it was just too painful but mysteriously this night for some reason i looked up and the moon was just bright and beautiful and 120 miles away someone else has also grown 18 years older jaycee dugard's mother also looks up i had gone to my second job and got home about 8 30 9 o'clock and i was tired and hungry and wore out and i remember looking up at the moon and
i said okay jace where are you it has now been 18 years philip garrido is increasingly taking his delusions public he decides to go on the campus of uc berkeley so he came in wanting to host an event on campus and he says uh you're going to love this i need to talk to you i've got something that you the entire world is going to want to know while he's talking i happen to just turn and slightly and i see the two young girls that were standing on the outer off and i look over at
the girls and so i said well whose children are these and he says they're mine so i said hi girls how are you come on in and and they sort of just kind of stayed propped and so i looked at him and i look at the girls and he's going on and on and he's extremely animated and they are not i went to allison and asked her if she could i told her what i had i said ally this is this guy is in my office he's got these two young girls something's not right the
two women engaged garrito in conversation pretending to be interested in his delusional rant and as soon as they could ran to check who he was they discovered in horror he is a sex offender and i'm thinking he's on parole he's huge um and he's got this record this this violent record this is not going to be good the family is separated the questioning continues there's a problem a frightened guard keeps sticking to the script garrido has given her and keeps saying her name is alyssa she asked again for my name and i told her i
couldn't tell her i felt like i had just been waiting for the right question she asked for my name again i said i couldn't say it i wasn't trying to be difficult i told her i haven't said it in 18 years i told her i would write it down i wrote down my name for the first time in 18 years jc lee dugard it was like breaking an evil spell in that moment i felt free stunned police officers asked if she wanted to call her mother they're like you can see your mom and i'm like
i can i can see my mom i remember saying come come and i remember telling you i'm coming baby i'm coming i was convinced that this day would never happen for the longest time i couldn't remember what she looked like finally i took a deep breath and made myself walk through the door and there she was i knew it was her instantly with arms wide open i walked to her and she was smiling and crying and she put her arms around me and i felt so safe and whole again she was my mom and she
was holding me as we stood there crying on each other's shoulders she pulled back a little to look me in the eye and hold on to my shoulders she said to me i knew i would see you again today her two babies are attending college they're so resilient and they're beautiful and loving it's taken a lot of time and it hasn't come overnight you know you have to put in the hard work and cry and for sure laugh about everything that you can i didn't want to give one more minute to philip and nancy they
took 18 years of my life i am so lucky and blessed for all the wonderful things that i do have life is too short to think about all the things you don't have i had my girls to give me strength and perhaps deep inside the dim hope of seeing my mom again even if it is just one thing or person you have to be thankful for that is enough i could not have gotten through my ordeal without believing that someday my life would make sense life's adventure is important it is important to live each day
to its fullest whatever life brings you
