Jaycee Lee Dugard

Anthony Sowell's Neighbor Says Police Knew About Cleveland Rapist's House

New York Times | IAN URBINA | Posted 11.02.2009 | Home


A neighbor of the convicted rapist in Cleveland who was arrested Saturday night after six decomposed bodies were found in his house said Monday that t...

America Can Do Better -- Stopping Child Abuse Deaths

Michael Petit | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics


Michael Petit

Children at grave risk of being abused or killed need the government's protection and we should have a national approach for doing this because the heavy toll exacted by abuse and neglect is both economic and moral.

Jaycee Dugard's Family: Left Behind

Lisa Cohen | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living


Lisa Cohen

Jaycee Dugard's face is everywhere this week. I've been thinking a lot about her story, because of the similarities to the Etan Patz case, which I've spent the last five years living and breathing for the first-ever book written on it.

Jaycee Dugard's New Photo & Interview: "I'm So Happy To Be Back"

People | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home


After being held against her will for 18 years, much of it in a backyard hell straight out of a horror film, Jaycee Dugard wants the world to know: ...

Letterman, Whoopi, and What Oprah Really Wants

Trish Kinney | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living


Trish Kinney

Someone told me that Oprah had offered a million dollars to Jaycee Dugard, so I set off to investigate.

A Prosecutor's View: Sex Offender Registries in Light of Garrido

Robin Sax | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living


Robin Sax

If just one child is saved from a sexual assault, a kidnap or a murder because of registration, then we have protected that child.

Save a Kid; Bring a Molester to Church

Patrick Boyle | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living


Patrick Boyle

Jaycee Dugard's kidnapping story got me thinking about the day I got a call from a distraught child molester. I had gotten to know Carl well when he ...

The Horrors of Sexual Trafficking, American-Style

John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


John W. Whitehead

Even the most well-cared-for children can fall prey to sex trafficking and become global sexual commodities.

Jason Linkins

Orange County Register Publishes The Single Most Tasteless Sports Column In The History Of Written Language

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media


Oh dear. On Labor Day, the Orange County Register published a column by Mark Whicker that I fear is the odds-on favorite to be the Worst Newspaper Co...

Jaycee Dugard Parade: South Lake Tahoe Celebrates Jaycee's Return

AP | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home


SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — The town where Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped 18 years ago celebrated her astounding reappearance with a parade Sund...

Garrido Recorded Love Songs Suggesting He Was Fond Of Young Girls

AP | Posted 10.21.2009 | Home


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Shawn Hornbeck Relates: Jaycee Dugard Brainwashed, In Shock

people.com | Posted 10.20.2009 | Home


If anybody could know the torment Jaycee Dugard endured during her 18 years in captivity it would be Shawn Hornbeck, 18, who spent four years and thre...

Blame America (and Jesus) for the Jaycee Dugard Kidnapping

Michael Wolff | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics


Michael Wolff

There is a great morbid curiosity about Jaycee Dugard and her imprisonment, but nobody is drawing any conclusions about what this might say about the American character.

Jaycee Lee Dugard: Nancy Garrido Worked As Nursing Aide

Contra Costa Times | Posted 10.18.2009 | Home


If she helped strip a young girl of her innocence and perpetrated a heinous, 18-year-long crime that has shocked the world, Nancy Garrido never showed...

Just Listen: Jaycee Lee Dugard

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living


Mark Goulston, M.D.

Imagine Jaycee's personality as a car that was happily going about her life 18 years ago, before she was abducted by the Garridos and taken to the compound that we are now seeing pictures of.

Media Offer Cash For Interviews In Jaycee Dugard Case

AP | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media


ANTIOCH, Calif. — Revelations that Jaycee Lee Dugard was allegedly imprisoned for 18 years at a convicted sex offender's home have sparked cash-...

Jaycee Lee Dugard: Girls Find Out She Is Really Their Mom

People | Howard Breuer | Posted 10.17.2009 | Home


It would seem like more than two girls could bear: The man they called "daddy" turns out to be a registered sex offender thrown in jail, and now they'...

Jason Linkins

Larry King Asks Strange Question About Food In Interview With Garrido Victim (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media


On last night's edition of Larry King Live, the late night host was reporting on the recent arrest of Phillip Garrido, a monstrous psychopath who abdu...

Will DJ AM Quote About PTSD Get People To Finally Listen?

Michelle Renee | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment


Michelle Renee

Getting people to take notice of PTSD as it relates to youth and adults who have survived violence, abuse and trauma -- outside of those returning from combat -- has been an uphill climb.

Sex Offender Lists Need to be For Sex Offenders, Not Pranksters

Doyle Albee | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics


Doyle Albee

Let's to do everything in our power to stop true sexual crimes, including ensuring the names on lists of sexual offenders deserve to be there.

Psycho Kidnapper-Rapist Phillip Garrido Should be Put to Death

Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics


Andy Ostroy

In 1988 Phillip Garrido was released from prison after serving eleven years for kidnapping and raping a Nevada woman. He was supposed to serve fifty ...

Costra County Sheriff Warren E. Rupf Apologizes For Mistakes In Jaycee Dugard Kidnapping Case

The New York Times | MARIA NEWMAN and JESSE McKINLEY | Posted 09.28.2009 | Home


Law enforcement authorities were in Phillip Garrido's house at least twice in the last three years, but never discovered that a young woman he had all...

Phillip Craig Garrido: Kidnapper Of Jaycee Lee Dugard, Speaks To Reporter: It's A "Heartwarming Story" (VIDEO)

Posted 09.28.2009 | Home


Phillip Craig Garrido, the man who allegedly kidnapped Jaycee Lee Dugard nearly two decades ago when she was just 11years-old, spoke to a reporter fro...

Carl Probyn: Jaycee Lee Dugard's Stepfather Talks About Her Return (PICTURES)

Posted 09.28.2009 | Home


MSNBC interviewed Jaycee Lee Dugard's stepfather Carl Probyn Friday morning. 18 years after watching his stepdaughter's abduction, Probyn recounts ...

Jaycee Lee Dugard Reappears After 18 Years; Sex Offender, Wife Arrested

Posted 09.27.2009 | Home


By JULIET WILLIAMS and SAMANTHA YOUNG, Associated Press UPDATE PLACERVILLE, Calif. - The father of a man suspected of kidnapping a girl 18 years ag...