Update On Jaycee's Abductor/Rapist

Jaycee and Mom

Gerrido rape victim sits in front row of courtroom to stare him down:

The discovery of Jaycee Dugard and the sordid allegations against Phillip and Nancy Garrido drew a frenzy of global attention.Now, as the case against the couple crawls along in a quiet Placerville basement courtroom, it's attracting a different kind of following: people from the past.
The man believed to be Dugard's biological father and the woman Phillip Garrido kidnapped and raped in 1976 both showed up Friday to watch the couple sit quietly in red jail jumpsuits and leave the courtroom in a few short minutes.

El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Douglas Phimister put off any actions until Jan. 21, saying nothing can happen until a state appeals court rules on whether Nancy Garrido's lawyer, who Phimister booted off the case last month, will return to defend her. Later, the attorney, Gilbert Maines, again dismissed allegations that he discussed the case over drinks at a country club bar and talked about a book or movie deal.
"That's enough of that," he said brusquely. "I never get drunk or obnoxious and I never discuss the case when I'm drinking."
Maines said he did not know the accuracy of recent allegations that Phillip Garrido plied Nancy Garrido with methamphetamine, which might have made her vulnerable to his criminal influence.
Authorities say the Garridos together snatched Dugard and drove her back to their house with a hidden backyard compound of sheds and tents near Antioch. They say Garrido is the father of Dugard's two girls, ages 11 and 15. The couple remain jailed without bail, charged with 29 felony counts in Dugard's abduction and years of sexual bondage.Phillip Garrido appeared pale and thin in the jury box, his hair buzzed short. Nancy Garrido, too, appeared to have lost weight. They did not share glances.

In the gallery, wearing an American flag sweater beneath a black leather jacket, sat Kenneth Lee Slayton,( Jaycee Lee Dugard's biological father) who later said before TV cameras that he wants to finally meet Dugard. He has never come face to face with his daughter.He was accompanied by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, who said Slayton only learned he was Dugard's father after she went missing from her South Lake Tahoe street at age 11 in 1991, when authorities took a DNA sample from him.
It was "a double whammy," said Slayton, who lives in Riverside.
"I don't know what's going on, but I see there's no man out there( "Out there", referring to the secluded ranch Jaycee and her daughters are staying at), and I think they need a man, and I'm a good man."

Sitting in the front row of the courtroom gallery, staring down Garrido, was Katie Callaway Hall, the victim in the 1976 kidnapping and rape. Garrido spent 11 years of a 50-year federal sentence behind bars in that case, in which he hitched a ride from her, then bound her and drove her to Reno, where he raped her in a storage shed. Along the way, he spoke of soon turning to God.
"Looking at him, I saw the same creepy guy I saw so many years ago," said Callaway Hall, who lives in Las Vegas. "I just want to make my presence known. Any day I can see that man in shackles is a good day for me."

I hope Katie gets the closure she needs from seeing her rapist put in prison for the rest of his life. The fifty year sentence he was supposed to serve for her abduction was abruptly suspended after 11 years.

I can't even imagine what the biological dad feels. He has never met or bonded with Jaycee and he is very outspoken with the press. One has to wonder if his interest here is in what he can get out of the situation for himself; fifteen minutes of fame perhaps, or even something monetary. I mean, what does he need a celebrity lawyer for??

As for Jaycee herself; her recovery is a slow process with one step forward and two back. She bonded with her captor and still has feelings for him. She is not progressing as well as was hoped. I have heard they are keeping a suicide watch on her. Hang in there honey.