Jaycee: Garrido used me as sex slave to ‘save others’

Kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard has told Philip Garrido, the sex offender who held her captive for 18 years and fathered her two children, that he "stole" her life and the lives of her family, as he was jailed for 431 years by a California court.

In a victim statement Dugard said she "hated every second of every day" she was held by Garrido and his wife Nancy, who was sentenced to between 36 years and life. Both had entered guilty pleas.

Dugard was not in court and her words were read out by her mother, Terry Probyn. In the statement she said: "I chose not to be here today because I refuse to waste another second of my life in your presence.

"Everything you ever did to me was wrong and I hope that one day you will see that... You stole my life and that of my family."

Probyn also read a statement outlining how the kidnap of her daughter had affected her. "It was you, Nancy Garrido, and it was you, Philip Garrido, that broke my heart. I hate you both," she said.

Sentencing the couple, who held Dugard in the garden of their home in Antioch, judge Douglas Phimister told them: "You took a human being and turned them into chattel. You reinvented slavery."

Earlier he released 135 pages of Dugard's harrowing grand jury testimony in which she recalled the day on which, as an 11-year-old schoolgirl, she was abducted by Garrido at a bus stop in the California town of South Lake Tahoe.

"And all of a sudden, his hand shoots out of the car window, and I feel this shock," she said. She was then bundled into a car where "something [was] thrown on top of me, and then legs, pressure, face down".

Dugard, who went missing in 1991, recalled Garrido laughing and saying: "I can't believe we got away with it."

She also told the jury: "In the beginning he said that I was helping him and that he had a sex problem and that he got me so that he wouldn't have to do this to anybody else. So I was helping him."

She also revealed how Garrido called his sex attacks on Dugard "runs" and would fire up a tazer gun to scare her. ·