Thursday, July 14, 2011

Jaycee Dugard: Memoir of captivity hits bestseller list

The front cover of Jaycee Dugard's A Stolen Life

BBC News

US kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard has described her 18 years in captivity in a memoir, which moved to the top of the Amazon bestseller list on the first day of its release.
In the book, A Stolen Life, Ms Dugard describes her loneliness and dependence on kidnappers Nancy and Phillip Garrido, who abducted her aged 11.
The book also details times when Ms Dugard, now 31, was raped by Garrido.
He is serving 431 years in prison for 14 counts of kidnap and sexual assualt.
Ms Dugard was abducted from near her home in South Lake Tahoe in 1991 as she walked to a school bus stop.
She was kept with her two daughters, now 13 and 16, in the backyard of the Garrido home in Antioch, California, in a compound of tents and sheds.

In her memoir, Ms Dugard recounts the grisly benchmarks of her time in captivity on the Garrido property.
She describes her life as a prisoner in detail, including the day she was seized by her tormentors and the day she went into labour with the first of two children conceived at the compound.
"I would live in my own world," Ms Dugard says in her book.
"Physical abuse was all I knew," she adds, referring to sexual assaults by Phillip Garrido, who would take methamphetamines to prolong his ability to rape the girl.
Full story at BBC.

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