Schwarzenegger Signs $20M Payment To Jaycee Dugard
CNN) — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday signed a $20 million settlement for Jaycee Dugard, a woman who was held captive for 18 years by a convicted rapist who had been under the supervision of the state.
Parole officers saw and spoke to Dugard during visits to the home of the man accused of holding her captive, but they never questioned why she was there, California officials disclose in newly released documents that figured in the settlement.
At least three parole officers spotted Dugard at the home of Phillip Garrido, a convicted rapist who had been under California state supervision since 1999, according to a June memo from the California attorney general’s office. On at least one occasion, a parole officer spoke to her and one of her daughters, whom investigators say Garrido fathered during her captivity.
But those officers “failed to investigate their identities or their relationship to Garrido,” the memo states.
The document outlined the $20 million settlement between Dugard and California authorities, which the state Legislature approved last week. It was drafted to brief state lawmakers on the settlement before their vote, said Christine Gasparac, an attorney general’s office spokeswoman.
Dugard disappeared in 1991, at age 11, and was found in August 2009 at Garrido’s home in Antioch, about 45 miles east of San Francisco. Garrido and his wife, Nancy, have pleaded not guilty to 29 felony counts in the case.
Garrido was released on parole in 1988 after serving less than 12 years of a 50-to-life sentence for rape in federal and Nevada prisons. His victim in that case, Katie Callaway Hall, told CNN’s “Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell” that the latest revelation was “unbelievable.”
“It’s just one more astonishing fact in a long line of errors,” said Hall, who is now an advocate for rape victims.
Responsibilty for Garrido’s parole was transferred to California authorities in 1999.
A November 2009 investigation found parole officers failed to follow utility wires running from Garrido’s house toward the shed where Dugard was held, didn’t check out the presence of a 12-year-old girl during a visit or act on information that indicated Garrido had violated the terms of his release.
The June 25 memo concluded that while the state could have successfully defended some of the claims on procedural grounds, the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation “recognizes that this case has a unique and tragic character.”
“Obviously, no amount of money could compensate these plaintiffs for what they have endured,” it reads. But the settlement will provide Dugard and her daughters — now teenagers — with “the financial support that they will need to rebuild their lives.”
The document estimates the family will need as much as $7 million alone for decades of counseling. SOURCE: CNN NEWS JULY 10, 2010
Well said everyone,this is so disturbing I cant understand the parole officers coming into the home and seeing a child thats not accounted for-I wonder if they will have Jaycees Law,meaning that they check the home through and through and( the power lines that go to that house or something like that)she was right there under everyones face if only they had checked it out,I hope she will be able to have all that she needs,
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Did they shoot the guy that kidnapped her? That’s what I want to know. Rhetorical question. Seriously, they didn’t keep a close enough eye on this guy.
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I support this payment to her, BUT I THOUGHT CALIFORNIA WAS BROKE!
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They need to realize ,these goverment workers ,that child molesters on parole need to be checked on. Maybe now they will do there jobs! if they had done them in the first place maybe more kids can be saved ,came at a high price .
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This is a re-post for Pat’s cause. This guy is the poster boy for just a cause.
Pat
July 7, 2010 at 2:59 PM
Stop the abuse and murder of the children in the U.S.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/16/stop-the-abuse-and-murder-of-the-children-in-the-us
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It makes me sick that these sex offenders are NOT serving their full sentences. What’s up with that????? That’s like Paul Smith - the dude who, here in MO, kidnapped little Alisa Maier last week. He was a sex offender, he was put in jail in 1995 for molesting a 10 y/o child….he was supposed to serve 15 years but was let out after 11 years. Ever since he had been let out, he stayed in trouble, and then last week kidnapped a little girl. Fortunatetly he let her go without hurting her and then killed himself. Come to find out, just a day before he kidnapped the girl, he shot and killed a small business owner.
These people should NOT be released from jail…..EVER!!!!
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I’m pretty sure she will get quite a bit from the media as well, movie, book and blah blah deals. Not that it bothers me any. If anyone one deserves media deals, she does, unlike some people we know. And I’ll be the first to take everything back I have said about KC, if this inviso nanny ever materialized from the twilight zone and confesses to the murder, including everything I said about money they (her and her family) made.
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