Jaycee Lee Dugard Backyard Living Conditions

Jaycee Lee Dugard's story of abduction and survival has captured the world's attention. It's almost unfathomable that Jaycee Dugard has returned home after being kidnapped 18 years ago at the tender age of 11. Philip Garrido and his wife Nancy successfully brainwashed Jaycee Dugard who spent her years living in a disgusting backyard camping set up and working for the family's printing company.

On the morning of Jaycee Lee's abduction she was walking up the road to school when Philip Garrido and his wife Nancy pulled up beside her and shocked her with a stun gun. Jaycee tumbled into the bushes and the couple dragged her into the car. Nancy held Jaycee Lee down in the car while they drove to their nearby residence.

Jaycee's living conditions over the years were horrible. For the first six years after her abduction she was kept in a small soundproof shed in the backyard. She was locked inside 24 hours a day, and for the first few years she spend most of the time with her hands handcuffed behind her back. Philip Garrido sexually assaulted her nearly everyday and she became pregnant at the age of 13. When Jaycee Lee was 14 years-old she gave birth to her first daughter, Starlet. She gave birth to her second daughter, Angel, two years later. She breastfed both of her children for a total of six years and did her best to be a loving and protective mother while locked away in the shed.

Over the years she became compliant with her abductors, and her captors built a fence around their property and decided to let Jaycee and her two daughter live in a tent. This was the first time that Jaycee Lee would feel the sun on her face since her abduction at the age of 11. Many people want to know why Jaycee Dugard didn't runaway over the years, but who could possibly understand what a young girl being abducted and raped by a 41-year-old sex offender would do in the same circumstance? During her captivity, she became dependent on her capture and frightened of the outside world.

She and her daughters spent year living in Philip Garrido's backyard where it was dirty and cluttered. Even though Jaycee Lee only had a fifth grade education she decided to set up a little school where she would teach her daughters how to read and write. Jaycee Lee was not allowed to tell the children that she was their mother and the two girls believed that she was actually her sister. During a recent television interview Jaycee talked about the pain of having to hide the fact that she was a mother. Jaycee Lee Dugard shares her amazing story of survival in her new book A Stolen Life.