Jaycee Dugard: Finally Free From Captivity, Writes About Experience

Sentencing and Repercussions Of Failure

During his sentencing, Phillip Garrido was found guilty for kidnapping and 13 counts of sexual assault.

Thus, his sentence was determined to be 431 years in prison. Also, California state awarded Jaycee $20 million. This money came as a result of the Inspector General finding that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has “repeatedly failed to properly classify and supervise parolee Garrido.”

Her Mother’s Trauma

Years after, Terry Probyn still struggles with her anger towards her daughter’s kidnappers and the failure from the police. She told Diane Sawyer, “It does eat at me, still to this day. I know I have to channel that anger into something good, because it will eat me alive…if I let it.”

Although her daughter has been home for almost a decade, she still fills with terror whenever she’s not home. Probyn said, “The thoughts flood, ‘Is she going to come back? Am I ever going to see her again?’ And then I’ll hear her skulking around the kitchen and I’ll think, ‘Oh, it’s OK! She is here, she is home.'”