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The California couple who were arrested for abducting an 11-year-old girl are denying the charges. Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy have denied kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991 and keeping her captive for 18 years. Police charged Mr Garrido with a series of terrible crimes, including rape, kidnapping a child under 14, and imprisonment by violence. Jaycee Lee Dugard, now 29, escaped from the Garrido family home and went to a local police station. She has been re-united with her parents. Her stepfather Carl Probyn said Jaycee had very mixed emotions about her sudden freedom. He said she "expressed some regret, like guilt, when she saw her mother, that she hadn't escaped earlier".ABC.

Jaycee Lee Dugard was on her way to school back in 1991 when Phillip Garrido bundled her into his car. Carl Probyn saw the incident and tried to chase the vehicle on his bicycle, but could not keep up with it. Probyn was a suspect in the case for many years. Jaycee was kept in a series of tents in a compound in the Garridos’ back garden. Mr and Mrs Garrido abused her over many years and she had two children. She gave birth to the first child when she was just fourteen. Phillip Garrido was a convicted rapist. In 1977 he was sentenced to prison for 50 years, but nine years later he was released. In a telephone conversation to a local radio station, Garrido told a reporter, “you're going to find the most powerful, heart-warming story”.