Jaycee's mother reading a victim impact statement to the judge.

An 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped on a street in her neighborhood and was held against her will as sex slave for 18 years until she was discovered and rescued in 2009.  Yesterday, her tormentors were sentenced to life in prison and given the maximum sentence by the judge. Jaycee’s mother read a victim impact statement from Jaycee who said she “did not want to spend one more minute of her life looking at the man and woman who stole her life.” Although nothing can return 18 years of living in fear and pain, brave Jaycee is now living in peace with her family.

The Guardian – Jaycee Dugard kidnapper handed long jail term; Phillip Garrido sentenced to 431 years for the crime Link to this video.

A convicted sex offender has been jailed for life for kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard when she was 11 and holding her captive for 18 years.

Phillip Garrido, 60, was sentenced to 431 years by a California court after pleading guilty to kidnapping and 13 sexual assault charges, including six counts of rape and seven counts of committing lewd acts captured on video. His wife, Nancy, 55, who also pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 36 years in prison.

El Dorado County district attorney Vern Pierson described Garrido as “a sexual predator who stole the childhood and innocence from an 11-year-old child”. Garrido fathered two daughters by his victim.

Before the couple were sentenced, Dugard’s mother, Terry Probyn, read out a statement by Dugard, who is now 31, in which she described her 18-year ordeal at the Garridos’ hands.

“I chose not to be here today because I refuse to waste another second of my life in your presence,” Dugard wrote, addressing Phillip Garrido. “Everything you ever did to me was wrong, and I hope one day you will see that. I hated every second of every day for 18 years. You stole my life and that of my family.”

Dugard called Phillip Garrido a liar, and said what his wife did to her was evil. She said she hoped both of them would have as many sleepless nights as she had.

“There is no god in the universe that would condone your actions,” she said, addressing Nancy Garrido.

Dugard was grabbed by Nancy Garrido from the street where her family lived and forced into a car driven by Phillip Garrido on 10 June 1991. The abduction took place as Dugard’s stepfather watched her walk to a school bus stop.

The couple held Dugard prisoner at their home in Antioch for the next 18 years, four months and 16 days. She was initially locked in a shed and then confined to a series of tents she would later share with the daughters fathered by Garrido and delivered by his wife.

Dugard said in testimony to a grand jury that she was zapped with a stun gun while being taken from the street at age 11 and kept under a blanket in a car as she was driven to the home of Phillip and Nancy Garrido.

She said she heard a man laughing as he said, “I can’t believe we got away with it.”

At his home, Phillip Garrido threatened to use the stun gun on her again and said he had vicious dogs that would attack her if she left the property, she testified. She was so afraid of her abductors she never tried to escape, according to the documents, which were released after the Garridos were sentenced.

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