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US kidnapper Garrido told mum victim was his daughter
AFP - Sunday, September 6
LONDON (AFP) - - The elderly mother of Phillip Garrido, who is accused of abducting Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991 and holding her prisoner for 18 years, said Sunday she was told the girl was her granddaughter.
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Patricia Garrido, 88, told Britain's Sunday Mirror newspaper that her son introduced Dugard as "Allissa", his daughter by a former lover -- and had no idea of her plight until police raided their California home last month.
"I didnt know she was being kept there against her will. I was in my bed and all I knew was this smiley girl who came to see me," Patricia said.
"She always seemed happy to be there. I thought she was my granddaughter. I dont know whats happened to her now but I love her. I hope shes OK."
Garrido told his mother that the two daughters he fathered with Dugard, who are now aged 15 and 11, were also from a previous relationship.
"I dont remember how her two little girls came to be there but I thought they were Phillips. He told me they were all his children," Patricia said.
Dugard, now 29, was allegedly snatched from outside her home when she was 11 years old and held in a prison of sheds and tents by Garrido, a convicted rapist, until her release last month.
Garrido and his wife, Nancy, have pleaded not guilty to 29 felony counts, including rape, kidnapping and false imprisonment.
Patricia Garrido said she saw nothing unusual about Dugard and then the girls living outside the house, saying she grew up on a farm and "was used to there being a lot of noise and spending a lot of time outside".
She defended her daughter-in-law, saying Nancy looked after her for two decades, bathing and feeding her.
"Nancy has a heart of gold and everyone seemed happy. Allissa was a very happy girl. I still call her Allissa because he never told me she was called Jaycee. I just didnt think there was anything wrong with it," Patricia said.
She denied reports she had helped Dugard give birth to her two daughters, and is now struggling to deal with the truth.
"They were all lovely girls. I just thought they were my family. I had no idea why he would do something like this. I dont know whats wrong with him but he has made the family very sad," she said.
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Jaycee Lee Dugard. The elderly mother of Phillip Garrido, who is accused of abducting Dugard in 1991 and holding her prisoner for 18 years, said Sunday she was told the girl was her granddaughter.
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