"It was a very emotional scene - both of them were just overjoyed to be with each other again. My wife says that Jaycee is an excellent mother, and they are bonding, playing little games like checkers."Ĭhris Campion, an FBI agent who witnessed the reunion, said Terry was ecstatic. The dramatic reunion between Dugard and her mother and younger sister Shayna, now 19, who she had not seen for almost two decades, came last Thursday in a California hotel.ĭugard's first words to her mother when they met face to face were: "Hi, Mom, I have babies."Ĭarl Probyn said Terry, Jaycee and the two girls were "doing fine - not fine, but fine for the situation. The local sheriff's department has made clear that the neighbouring yard is being treated as a crime scene. The officers have been using rakes, shovels and chainsaws to clear the property, as well as metal detectors to analyse the ground. It is understood that the search, which has been extended for an extra day, relates to suspicions that Garrido might also have been involved in the 1990s murders in outlying areas of eight prostitutes and a teenage girl. A team of about 20 police officers were still scouring their home and its backyard today.Ĭadaver dogs, trained in sniffing out corpses, were brought in to search the house next door where Garrido acted as caretaker until 2006. Garrido, 58, and his wife Nancy, 54, have pleaded not guilty to 29 counts including kidnapping, imprisonment and rape. ![]() They are upset about this because that's their father and he's in jail." He said the revelations about their abusive father had caused turmoil for Starlet and Angel. ![]() Although he was not present at the reunion, having separated from Dugard's mother, Terry Probyn, he has kept in regular contact. Snippets of information that have emerged about the children suggests they are deeply confused.Ĭarl Probyn, Dugard's stepfather who saw her being abducted on 10 June 1991 and chased after the kidnapper's car on a mountain bike but failed to reach it, has been acting as the family's spokesperson. Only in the last couple of days have they been told by their mother, who was abducted by Garrido on her way to school aged 11, that their father had kidnapped, imprisoned and raped her. They were born in a sound-proofed quarter of the compound, never saw a doctor or attended school and were rarely allowed out. ![]() Starlet and Angel, aged 11 and 15, were rescued on Wednesday from the intricate web of tents and sheds erected by Phillip Garrido in the backyard of his home in Antioch, California, in which they spent their entire lives.
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