Looking forward to the segments on Jaycee and her 18 years as captive of that man. I have been wondering what she was told that kept her from leaving. I'm sure some of the reason she stayed was her children – it would be harder to escape with them in tow and I doubt she would leave them.

Re: the people stuck in the fire: I hope they are ok, but I don't get why they didn't go. If the officials say "Get out of Dodge", then you get out of Dodge. Is it the possiblitly of looting? Heck, they could rob my house blind, as long as my family and I were safe. Did they think "oh, it won't touch us"? Mother Nature" decides how any kind of storm or fire will pan out, no one can predict it. It's a shame they didn't listen to the warning.

my god, who is the woman on the live feed, i can't hear but I feel like someone needs to hold her or comfort her.

At a town hall meeting on health care in Petaluma CA. Press should cover these more people are very upset. Both sides. Press needs to really see what is going on. This country is Very divided.

This is an unbelievable story but what I want to know is who delivered the children when they were born ?

I would like to know about the wife of this animal, what part did she play in this?

Why is no one asking about Garrido's wife and her part in all this?

And even I know that Garrido probably used the girls as leverage against Jaycee and that's why he took them everywhere.

will we here from jaycee herself or the daughters in this horrific situation and what is the wife of this monster saying

anderson cooper is hot

Good Grief, that woman is minimizing what that NUT done. I'm glad she re canted on defending him, because that was exactly what she was saying in the beginning.

Just wondering what the wife's roll was in this despicable situation. How long have they been married? How screwed up is she? As bad as her husband evidently.

Thank God for Anderson Cooper for keepin it real! Thanks for interviewing that last woman you had on there in a way that showed she wasn't defending that man and woman who abducted that young girl.

I have a question. What kind of prenatal care did Jaycee receive and where did she deliver her babies? I really hope and pray that this young woman and her children will receive the love and support they need to heal from this horrifying injustice.

This man is a dispicable piece of human trash. He should never see the light of day again. Anyone who interviews him is only helping his sick mind.

Jaycee's story makes my stomach hurt every time I think about it. Every detail of this story is gut-wrenching and totally unbelievable if not for the pictures and reports.

How many other women or children are out there like this poor woman and her children.....Please law enforcement and child protective services...do your job and find them!! Neighbors, report suspicious behavior and then follow up to be sure your report has been acted upon!!

Their is so much forcus on Phillip, his wife is as guilty, why not mention her on the news. How long has he been married to his wife?

This story is so upsetting, I fear for every little girl, blond hair blue or brown eyes. I cannot sleep, angry angry. If some high official daughter is kidnapped then I bet the laws will changed. Sex offender's do not change. Their has to be stricker laws for these people.

Thank you

How did he get caught, I don't believe he walked in and turned himself in unless, he knew they were on to him.

Two police officers were suspicious, but how did they come in contact with him to start with?

Jaycee and her children have a long road to recovery from the sick and twisted mind that controlled thier lives. I am quick to assume his molestations extended to the small children as well. May God stay close give these three the strength needed to grow.

I think that it was wrong of the guy for doing this as well as the children for not alerting outside people. If it was me I would have ran no matter what. aren't I right?

I take exception to this Molina woman who seems to be defending this kidnapper and rapist. Just becaues he has a big house? And the young girls seem to be clean and well dressed?? These are not Antioch values. Why was this woman willing to overlook the strange behavior that was so obvious to the Berkeley police? There is a claim of racial discrimination against the Antioch Police Department by many new residents of this city. Is it possible that this woman – who called herself a VICTIM during your story – was too self absorbed in her own victimhood to empathize with three white girls who have been raped and victimized themselves? This is a problem in Antioch that you should be looking at.

The whole thing is a bizzare. This kind of terrible crime is not common in Nigeria. I really feel sorry for her father and mother and for her children. It is a heart broken story, but we should be glad she survived.

That is something I hadn't thought of as a reason for her loyalty (if you will) to that monster which I agree totally

Did Jaycee have a medical person to deliver her children

If someone would have reported a marijuana plant in that back yard an army of cops would have been there!

maybe she was just waiting for the right time and place to to turn him in, and it sounds like to me she did it. she wanted a place to be safe and for her girls to be safe as well, God Bless her

First of all, I want to say "Alissa" (Jaycee) keep your head up! Jaycee was able to survive a tragic event that lasted 18 years of her life. The Garrido's have done this young woman a cruel injustice by stripping her of a healthy life. Anyone that is capable of doing such an inhumane act deserves the maximum penalty of the law. Then with the leud act Garrido had committed a few years earlier before the abduction of Jaycee should not unnoticed. It is obvious that something is not clicking correctly within this individual.

Jaycee had children at age 14,as a minor, who signed the consent form when she gave birth? And when she gave birth the second time, that in itself, at that age, I find a little unusual and certainly would have sparked my interest??????

08-31-09 2009 1050 pm ET
Understanding the magnitude of this life shattering event will never be ours as a society, but can we all learn from it? Blame and responsibility ripple outward and we have to consciously ask out loud can this never ever happen again? Can we help? Can we love enough to help healing take place? God alone sees all and knows all can we avail ourselves to devine wisdom and vision so that this world can be a better place or are we destined to slowly self destruct?

I can understand how someone can be kidnapped and could be hid out for years.
My Daughter bought a house in Paradice, Ca. and food came up missing... from all of the familys sleeping bags to pots, pans, heaters and food galore.
There was total histeria in the house hold. All kinds of things were stolen.
Come to find out when she moved there was a guy cleaning out the basement in the house for the realstate office . There on the lawn were the gurls dirty sleeping bags , the new pots and pans I bought her for Christmas and a heater and also all kinds of canned goods and other food they had taken.
There were at least three guys living there ... the kids saw them and zap they would be gone. The police were even called and there was two guys in their motor home (not knowing my Granddaughter stayed home from school that day) There is a feild behind the house a the police saw them there and did nothing. They were able to see what was going on and see in the bathroom and bedrooms. When the worker showed my daughter she called the police and they wouldn't even come to look at it.
Some police are not there to help people and there are others that are worth their weight in gold.
Places like this need to be chcked and the people that buy the place need to be checked. There are a lot of sex affenders around there.

The parole officer who appeared is not revealing the complete truth to the public or he is very naive. I live behind a sex offender's home just like that girl. Each time the officer's visit it is a very brief in and out thing as if it is a bother. I have motioned to them several times as they were pulling out of the driveway and they just ignore me. I have directly contacted the sheriff's dept. and I recieve the same treatement. Reality is officer's are paid to keep their mouth's shut so they can do whatever. This sex offender is a multiple offender who served no time in jail, is an active alcoholic, hangs around this one little girl, is gone all night all the time as he pleases, and has at least a dozen firearms displayed in his home. What is wrong with the authorities that they allow this to continue. I do not buy the excuse they are too busy to protect children and who says it has to be a child? The system regarding sex offenders needs to be revamped more than our health care system. I watch the so called customers of this animal speak as if they did not know anything but I would be watching them as well. Notice they are all young men? I don't believe them.

An 11 year old girl was kidnapped, raped repeatedly year after year, gave birth to two children while still a minor and no one understands how the neighbours/authorities knew nothing or worse DID nothing. When 11 year old girls are forced into "marriage" raped and give birth to children while still minors WE are the neighbours who know about it and yet continue to do nothing. The only difference is the compounds in Utah (etc) are not derilict tents in a dirty backyard with one crazy beast to focus all our rage on. Do we continue to forget the other girls going thru the same thing as Jaycee Dugard did, RIGHT NOW in FLDS compounds – WE are the neighbours shown on tv, living our lives as other scared little girls cry silently.

What role did the wife of Phillip Garrido play in all of this?

it's hard to listen to this ordeal. your's is the first discussion i've heard. I don't get it. would we be better off not knowing about this?

Anderson Cooper,

I treat aduilts who have suffered from severe and pervasive traumas like incest, molestations, and torture. To understand how the little girl lives disavowing the painful circumstances one would have to understand the ability of a childs imagination. Jacyee may have went into her head hiding from the painful molestation/ rapes by creating an alternate selfstate called "alter personalities". Basically the "real little girl named Jaycee" hides as an 11 year old little girl inside her head and lives on the outside as the name the kidnapper gave her. The personality that now lives as a woman will disavow any problem living a normal liffe believing her reality to be what the kidnapper wants. Look up Dissociative Identity Disorder – may explain the perceptions of normalcy that everyone saw as she lived in the community.

Respectfully,

Dy Wolpert, APRN, NP, CNS

Dear AC: Please don't forget about the Baskin children who were abducted and brainwashed by their own grandparents back in the late 1980's from Murfreesboro, Tn and were found in Feb. 2009. These children's mother's parents were suppose to return the kids to their parents, but instead ran off with them , telling tales saying that their own daugher and her minster husband were Satanic worshipers (not true). No one has talked about this. Have the children (now adults ) seen their parents? This was on Unsolved Mysteries along time ago long before there was much cable tv , before AC360. These 2 kids were brainwashed by their own grandparents.... Jan Nashville ,TN

How could Jaycee give birth to the two girls in such living conditions
without being exposed?

How were they educated without the authorities consenting to home
schooling or did they attend public or private schools?

I am sure that there is so much more to be revealed!

This horrible story that is unfolding w/ jaycee is on belief! Why was this man released after just 11 years serve for the first kidnapping? He should of stay the full 50 years. If he would of then these poor girls wouldnt of suffered! I wish the best for jaycee and her family. I wish this man and women to get the max in prison.

Anderson, I treat Traumatized patients at Rader Programs. This girl needs lots of help. Please help her get the right treatment. It could be equally traumatizing to force this girl back to her family. The girl needs somone safe. The girl may view all people unsafe.

Dy Wolpert, APRN, NP, CNS
Rader Programs

I am completely disgusted that Anderson Cooper, whom I considered to be the last remaining legitimate newsman at CNN would allow, let alone interview, anyone who would possbile stand up for the sick, demeted, animal, Phillip Garrido. There is really only one place for Garrido and that is to spend eternity in hell!

Did she received Medical care while pregnant?

This woman you interviewed appears to be misdirected. She does seem to be defending Garrido Or should I say deflecting the attention away from this atrocity committed by this man who, in my opinion, should receive NO mercy, No understanding, only the worst punishment allowed by the law. Water-boarding would not be good enough.

First of all, where are the birth certificates for the two little children fathered by the monster? where were they born? which hospital? And under what name? Blindness in our societies legal force is caused by nothing less then wisdom. Or should I relay a mesg. of blindness to there are too many to account for!!!

How did the children feel to see their mother living in a tent and their father living in a house? Where did the children sleep?

It must be remembered that Jaycee was under complete control and learned to cope in complete fear. Once control is established a simple tapping much like clicker training in a dog can keep her under control. With 2 captors it is very easy to establish a good guy bad guy
routine. It's going to be tough to recover but she is tough or she would not have survived.

Re: Ms. Molino(former business client of Garrido) –Did she think that Jaycee was a daughter of the Garridos?

Also, does she know whether or not Jaycee called Garrido "Dad" ?

Does she know how Jaycee's daughters referred to Garrido?

The media is causing more damage to these children. I can't believe the media including Anderson Cooper is continuously saying that this girl was RAPED for 18 years. While media is cashing in on the sad sick situation of these poor victims, does anyone have enough moral fiber to say I will not victimize these people any further. RAPE is a violent word and action. Why don't these people consider the effect on these children to hear that their father continuously raped their mother. What about the effect on Jaycee to constantly hear that she was RAPED for 18 years.
If this is what happened to Jaycee then maybe just maybe the media might want to stop RAPING her and her children and let them heal.
Its a given that this man and his wife should be put away forever but should Jaycee and her children be persecuted, humiliated and sold out by the media in the name of Journalism and RATINGS. And please don't say it is in the good for these victims.

Iwith all this girl has been through and her two girls being this mans biological children. if he owns the house and property, wouldnt her daughters get ownership of everything soon as he is convicted so they can sell it to pay for some of whatever longterm treatment they most likely will need.

I am a former Parole officer from Nevada. I supervised parolees under intensive supervision and residential confinement conditions with ankle monitors. I had sex offenders and murders on my caseload. The rule of thumb when you make a home visit to these types of parolee residence you go through the house and outling property in checking to see if there are any violations of the subject parole conditions each time you visit.. The parole agent should have done a better job years ago. I do not buy the comments that the parole agent could not see. It was simple he never looked. Our job on the streets is to look into these cases more throughly because of the criminal history of these serious offenders can never be discounted at any stage of the supervision.

Can we see inside Garrido's house?
Where were the girls born, and do they what is going on, and that father is a rapest?
We pray for Jaycee and her girls and that they have a healthy wonderful life.

I wonder... will Jaycee and her children ever be able to live a normal life. Will they ever be able to cope in a real world? 18 years is a long time but I assume Jaycee remembers her life before this crazy person stole her life from her. But what about her children. This is their father and this is the only life they have ever had. Everyone needs to pray for these three girls.

I hope I was clear on mt question.
Do Jaycee's daughters know what is going on, and do they know Garrido is a rapest?

I feel that people can only be helped when the ask or show the need to be helped. Duguard apparently portrayed a happy life. She probably appeared as a young lady in love with an older man especially after birthing not one but to of his children. She was not completely isolated and had more that one opportunity to flee. If she was really scared to leave but wanted to a perfect place would have been at the hospital. The intial mistake with Phillip Garrido, was letting him out after his first offense. He should have been under supreme supervision.

Jaycee Dugard... poor kid...

Who can justify someone elses motives... someone elses actions?

Garrido: this is really about him: so in separation

wishing Jaycee all the privacy and hope she requires for the remains of this ordeal...

Garrido... Motive... Hatred for females: yet some twisted compassionate intent that maybe he could raise a young girl not to be so menevolent... yet like a disordered priest who molests his own alter boys... he brings pain upon true love and defies rational intent.

Garrido acted: yet likely he is mentally insane due to the actions taken against him in his own life. incite of truth comes to even the most sinister of us.

Garrido acted: yet as I would forgive all those who follow occult intent to bring heinous events against humanity as they are entrapped: I as an individual must also provide Phillip Garrido with this respect.

The man is not really a criminal: he is just insane; he let his chivarly take a second step, he attacked his own conscience and allow those who caused his schizophrenia to overtake him when unable to conquor all and provide the truth... lost before he started.

Insane: because of the life he lived and the notions of others action which almost forced him. To commit crimes of indecency.

Punishment must come: acts can not be so easily forgiven: admonishments, atonement is often in these cases ni-impossible: the victim might forgive: but the pain to the family will always be a regret, the losses greater to only allow some absolution but never total forgiveness.

Prisons should be a sperm free facility: sensual relations of all types should be forbidden in prison. To have this man free of his insanity: requires a mind free of semen. Letting the truth to his own life: be both a punishment and a release: while he contemplates his own crimes for a lifetime.

None of us are really innocent in this world. Some just blame Christ and make all sin his fault... his burden... answered in his death...

Truth?

The only way to prevent such tragedy in the future: is to understand life to its fullest: when we take a step out of ourselves: and find rational to attempt to force good: to force life into better behaviour... One must know themselves before one finds love for another. In most cases: people of this world love another just to experience: and have no rational to the purpose of life and to share love for a childs creation. We rush to inhibitions and pleasures... many just go insane in such relations: as the world around them seems sick.

To attempt to be better than someone's current parents... to attempt to be stronger than someone else's father.

Crimes have been committed: and evidence in this case if obvious: but we are all victims of past sins, the past sins of others, and even our own vices. The chain reaction of this man's evil intent: is born of others intents against humanity itself.

Truth: will stop these people: truth will set them free: and make most face their own guilt: on their own terms.

The Buddhists do not believe that punishment works: when Moses ordered those who broke order to be stoned to death... To exile: to just turn your back and wipe your feet as you leave their domestic places... To punish by stripping civilization from an individual: to teach them the end result of what they sow: to force them to live in to face the truth of a world where you always have neighbors even to let them learn of what a neighborhood where civilization has failed truly is like: to just let them experience the hell of life without civil intent... hell on earth is a world where law does not exist...

Equality: but one can not raise a hand: or violate the first oath of civilization: the oath of chivarly.

People like this Garrido must learn: that justice is social: it can not be a private manner: when we act to punish a person and take an eye for an eye: that chain never stops until we are all blind.

The truth can not set this man free. His crimes are real. But perhaps the truth can prevent future crimes: and release many found entrapped and enslaved in like situations. Remorse and the truth can cause severe outbursts: life threatening at times: yet civilization requires total truth: else distrust leads to total decay and its final damnation to all.

What causes mental illness?

Stop the raptures: and revoke the related responses of revenge and disquieting intent.

Law is real: and in many places sorcery is still against the law... it only just recently left the law books in England... yet: notwithstanding Saudi Arabia...

Feminist Extremism: ends with the truth: and the insanity is invokes in the unjust responses of some.

Words: the truth is the greatest weapon: yet it must be weilded softly to perserve chivalry and return the minds to reason: and forge ahead with equality in a real civilization. Civilization is the final product of faith: faith in true love gives just reason for civilization. To provide children with a better life than our own.

Kidnapping and eventual stockholm situated love affairs are not a healthy lifestyle or future expectation for children. It is why man has written law against it. When a person is just: their conscience will inform them of wrong doings: and those who learn from their mistakes and take the time to draft a new law to prevent that pain of hinder conscience in others...

It is a sinister world we live in; when total truth to sexual relationships is found hidden; kept secret... It leads men to sinister ends.

I would if I were to try such a case want to know what the father of this lost once little girl would like done. The same of her mother. Then in reflection to the greater laws of life: answer that respect with true justice intended. Nothing can force a person to reform: but compassion can make it easier for them to find the route they need to try.

Well i can say this for one thing...this man should pay for what he did to J.c and her family. My heart goes out to her and her family. I would hope for the best for her and her family to continue on in a reality where they are now...within J.C's Family. I would hope the man who kidnapped J.C will face justice and his maker.
I am also saddend though it took so long to figure out what happend to this little one. I hope that J.C will remember and know that her parents love her as well as her entire family – The Garridos.
In a free society noone should be afraid of gettting kidnapped. This is all to bad. Now stricter rules will come into play. This first official complaint should have been taken more seriously by law enforcement but was not.
This little girl had to pay the price for that. She wasn't just kidnapped but she was raped by the kidnapper. Her childhood was taken away because law enforcement couldn't get its act together. They all blame Phillip Garrido. He may have been the primary cause however law enforcement chose to do zilch about it. Until they could get media coverage on it. I'm not just ashamed of The Garridos but i am also ashamed of law enforcement that was called out the first time to this place. When someone knows someone has been kidnapped. It should have been reported. I must say that in all our best interest to help each other out.

It is very easy to say that Jaycee should have been able to get away. Abductors use isolation, rape and threats to control their victims. Perhaps in the beginning, there would be attempts to escape or resist. However, she is contained totally by him, totally dependent on him for food, medicine, and other basics. The abuse has gone on for years. It became the life she knew, and even if she hated it, it was the life she had been conditioned for.

Abused women show a lot of the same signs. They stay with an abuser, and even defend him. This often occurs after years of isolation and abuse. I can't begin to imagine how an 11 year old girl, who became a mother at 13 could even cope with the reality of the situation. She had to view it as a 'sort of marriage' to add a degree of normalcy to a life she had no control over.

I hope that he and his wife spend the rest of their natural lives in isolation. Monsters like these two people should be shown no mercy.

Anderson, This is so sad to think of a child being treated in this way. This is horrible for her parents. But there is a case on trial in Knoxville, Tn at the present time where the two young people kidnapped, tortured for days then killed by 4 other so call humans....these parents will never hug, kiss or see there children alive again......why is this not National News?

Hi speak in español. saludos elby

The indictment refers to her as Jane Doe, and yet she is named and publicised all over the place.
For me this young lady and her family have suffered enough without all the publicity. I personally believe the Media should behave in accordance with the indictment and refer to her as Jane Doe, and be prohibited from publishing her name by Law.
Also if it were my family I would want no public attention until we had restored the comfort of our family relationship,outside the media purview.
But hey ho no doubt the family got paid by the media to give information etc and that should be banned by law as well.
Regards,
Hodgson.

@Annie Kate Yes this is a very unusual case. Why didn't she secretly call someone or send out an e-mail, or just walk over to the police station and say who she was? Is it possible that this illicit and bizarre relationship was actually love? I imagine your vw is the best, she was looking out for her children. Having said all of that, we are in the land of speculation fully. Many of these questions and many more will probably be addressed in a police report and come up in a trial. And that is what I truly have to say. These are all actual people and though it is the very nectar of blogging to wildly imagine what is going on with them in the name of creativity, it is also the very ambrosia of the law, and sustenance of our democracy to protect their rights. Adhering to that, and to journalistic discipline might just lead to justice and even, miraculously some kind of good result.

Where is Jaycee's real dad because I only see her step-dad..

I think the lady is right, the medai has it wrong she is talking sense, they invited her girls to the party and they acted normal...Most likely he kept them hidden but they had tv etc

PLEASE STOP CALLING THIS MONSTER AN ANIMAL. I have fish, a cat, and two turtles that would never hurt anyone. Can you please respect that and call this MONSTER A MONSTER?

Anderson Cooper,

You have not focused on the wife. Does she have a history? Did she particpate in the previous kidnapping? What role did she play?

Anderson:

I'm very concerned about Jaycee, of course. Her daughters, however, are about the age SHE was when she was kidnapped. How are they going to fare when they learn their father was their mother's kidnapper and keeper?
And how are these girls going to be schooled from now on? I can't imagine that they'll just start public school in January. I cannot even begin to imagine how much these three have missed, or how they will integrate fully into society again. Last, I worry Jaycee was kept with the help of drugs. I can't imagine her state of mind.

As a victim of sexual violence, I can only commend Jaycee for strength and courage and the tenacity to overcome all odds...I can only say that to go through that many years with a "pedophile" will certainly take alot of healing and know from my heart that you have so many people hoping only the best for you...xo

CHEVY SHUTUP!

Just curious how come some comments on AC live do not make it in and yet, many are repeated from the same people. I have followed the rules.

There has been no information on the real father in this case. Who is he and where is he?

I can't believe this woman seems to be defending this monster...

WOAH ! ! ! Lady pump your brakes. I know you are not defending anything about that MONSTER! ARRRGGGHHHHH ! ! ! I don't know what her point is ... we don't need to see anymore than we have inside that home. I am scared! Death penalty would take too long America ...

If the UK indeed used the Lockerbie bomber in a gas/oil deal with Lybia, they took a page from the Bush/Cheney handbook of government: lie, manipulate & cheat.

She was obviously brainwashed by that animal

The Jaycee Dugard situation makes a great case for more women in law enforcement. Over the years, men who came in contact with Garrido shrugged their shoulders – while women consistently sensed that something was wrong.

Is a search warrant required to enter the house/yard of someone on parole?

Why didn't they search the house.yard in 2006 after the 911 call.

Why was his parole revoked in 1993, and who kept Jaycee then?

Anderson I watch your show all the time, And tonight i have to say i was shocked, the neighbor who came on and stated no one has mentioned the inside of the house were these girls were held,, And he was a nice man and such and going to the birthday party omg, Anderson he is a rapist, a child molester and kidnapper and who knows if he murdered anyone yet, What is wrong with this women sounds like she has a little mind control going on, This really upset me and i sure many of your viewers, Also who delivered these baby girls? And the wife She is a freak as well. This young women will never be the same in her life, I dont believe she well ever recover from such a trauma. Please dont invite this women back on your show that was so very upsetting. I feel so sorry for these young women it breaks my heart
Thank you Anderson

It seems so sad that so many lives were hurt when people who had the information generally ignored the fact that a sex offender was in their midst till long after the tragedy happenend when someone had the power to act on their intuition. I wish there were more officers like the one who decided to follow up. We have a sex offender close to our neighborhood, in fact the school bus stop is right in front of his apartment but have been advised against saying anything. Seems our option is to wait till tragedy strikes.

Jaycee was abducted at age eleven. When I try to remember ANYTHING about my own life at age eleven, I find it very difficult. After so many years, Jaycee probably could not recall her own mother's face! After the death of my beloved grandmother, I once tried to conjure up her face in my imagination and simply could not do it. The mind is a curious thing, very complex and mysterious. No amount of speculation that we do will put the finger on the true facts of this case. It is a perplexity indeed.

Why isn't Anderson raising comparisons to the case of Elizabeth Fritzl in Austria last year?

I knew Pat Garrido (Phillps mother) for many years. She actually had her hair done every single week at my partner's hair salon for over 20 years. Phillip told us about a year he was putting his mother in a care home.
We haven't seen her in all this time. Phillip refused to say anything about his mother or let anyone see her. Even his mother's sister was
barred from going to see her i believe. When all this came down, we thought he must have killed his mother. But the Placer County Sheriff
told me she was alive when they arrested Phillip and taken to a hospital. Facts: That was not Phillip's house it is his mothers house.
She lived there on that property for the last 18 years. Questions: Why is no news agency talking to her? Why (god forbid) is she not charged with this horrible crime?
No one will answer these questions for me!
Any thoughts from you?
Thanks!

I'm not at all condoning what Phillip Garrido is suspected of doing, but I'm really glad to see the news bringing in experts in the field of psychology, mind control, even customer of his home business to help give us outsiders others perspectives. Now if only we can be open to these and try to understand what a monumental process Jaycee's and her children's "rehabilitation" is going to be.

Kudos to Cheyvonne Molino and her comments about how the media is reporting the Jaycee Dugard story. Ms. Molino says we are not getting the story about what the inside of the main home looked like and states that every crime within a geographic area will be linked to the suspect. I've watched this coverage ad nauseum and there is a strong slant towards what we expect to see and hear (the sensational) and very little else. As though we can't handle contradictions. Cooper even got testy with Ms. Molino – absurd. Does he think he's protecting us? Protecting a standard? A way of thinking? Give it up, Cooper. We're adults. The truth will set us free. No slant. Give us the benefit of the doubt; maybe we don't need to be told what to think.

The girl didn't leave because she was too afraid of her captors. They convinced her that she would probably be killed if she tried to leave, or worse– live an even more tortured existance than she was already living. Since nobody came to her rescue, she gave up and lived the awful life she knew. She made the "best" of it. She survived.

Never EVER blame the victims, please.

The person who implied on the show that, " We need to know more about the Garrido's," filled me with so much anger, I had to say something.

They are the last thing we need to know more about. Mr. Garrido- who claims people will interpret the full story as some kind of miracle, is contacting networks to explain himself; aka get publicity. Human interest plays a role in trying to understand people like the Garrido's, giving them some kind of credit they don't deserve. If you're that curious, wait for a horror movie to come out based on this.

Ignore them. Missing children are everywhere and this could be a chance to examine closed cases that could be solved.

In response to Annie Kate:
UM what could Jaycee have been told to keep her from leaving? As if an 11 year old who was abducted by a master manipulator should know how to escape.

All my kids are go school and they between the age of 7-5 so worry
about s1 h1 flu what is the immediate advise that you given to the teachers? and parents whose worry like me

I think it's time to stop showing pictures of these innocent children (including Jaycee). The press is keeping these children in a public prison. Imagine how horrible and embarrassing it must be for these kids to have their disturbing circumstances constantly aired to the public. Most kids can hardly handle embarrassment with-in the classroom. I understand the publics interest in this story but CNN should make a stand to protect their identity as much as possible (not the opposite). These kids deserve some privacy. Please.

People never believe in brain washing until it happens to them.

I think the people who have the power to release criminals by offering them parole should face consequences if those criminals re-offend. They would think twice about their actions.

The people who allowed this monster to be out on parole essentially has a hand in the kidnapping.

Anderson please ask the question which has not been addressed.
Where is Jaycee Lee Dugard's father? Why didn't he know where his daughter was living when she was abducted?
Thanks

So far I have not heard newscasters mention something that I consider rather glaring.

Jaycee now has a daughter the same age she was when she was kidnapped and raped. And a daughter who was that age 4 years ago. It would be naive to think he has not raped them as well.

We may never know, but I pray that he didn't do to them what he did to Jaycee. The sad fact of the matter is that he didn't have to kidnap these victims. He created them right there in his home.

I have to go cry now. It's all just to heartbreaking to think about.

Garrido's mother also lives in the home with dementia surely she has not been ill for 18 years. Makes you wonder how he explained Jaycee to the family that might have visited his mother. The brother revealed this information.

Go Anderson Go!!! Goodness sake. When the gal Anderson was interviewing began to "defend" Giarrido, I like Anderson, was not a happy camper. Oh but Oh but....that gal, was she a reporter, the only reporter in this "small town" in 2009 in America, in or near the Bay Area?? Giarrido is a mad man. Add him along with Manson, Hitler, Satan, Casey...American wake up, contact your authorities...........

Regardless of whether Jaycee voluntarily remained with Garrido or not, the facts speak for themselves. Jaycee was impregnated at Age 13 and Age 17. She was a child and obviously traumatized beyond repair. Garrido abducted, continually raped and psychologically damaged Jaycee for the larger part of her life. Further investigation is pointless, and quite frankly spending tax dollars to sustain a court proceeding is futile. I look forward to watching your segment; the larger question I would want answered is what the criminal and justice system is doing to clamp down on these kinds of crimes. How do we make this kind of a crime intolerable in our society.

A more detail investigation will show that local law enforcement personal that are members of the BDSM community knew of the use of sex slaves in the community , I wouldn't be surprise if some of them attended the gatherings that went on in the property of Mr . Garret 's .
The use of teenage sex slaves is prevalent among the local BDSM community in rural Contra Costa County .
I'm glad that this case uncover a kidnapping , but having law enforcement members that participated in this activities is like having the fox guard the hen house .
It's bad enough having law enforcement turning a blind eye on this problem , but the news media shouldn't have to do the same .

First my hats off to the officer who discovered something was'nt right and had the guts to check it out. He stopped a very sick man and saved the lives of three people in my mind.Second, my heart goes out to Jaycee and her two daughters. No one should have to go throght anything like that. There should be a donation taken up for them to help get their lives back in order. And third, the police force who took the past 911 calls should be sued, they could have investageted long ago and freed those poor girls from a life of fear. Keep up the great work Anderson.

Ya know,

I sat here tonight and watched your show Anderson Twice. Back to back. And it made me think of another story I recently read and was sick to my stomach about Literally! The story I speak of is Baby Brianna of New Mexico.

In both story's there were people who suspected something and never said anything. In Jaycee's case it was her Neighbors and In Brianna's it was her own grandmother. This makes me angry as a person and very sad as a mother.

I hope more people realize that it's the children who hurt; By us as adults, not speaking up.

A damn shame,
Samantha

Did you know that the LA county Fire Dept will NOT let in the private fire companies that the insurance companies use. They would rather see our houses burn and leave us with nothing than to let these very experience companies come in and save some of our homes. This is a political ploy in CA.