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Jaycee Dugard Kidnapping Case Study

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Kidnapping involves taking someone against his or her will without permission and moving that person to another location. One element of kidnapping is holding the victim to involuntary servitude. The kidnapping case involving Jaycee Dugard will be discussed, what she experienced in involuntary servitude, the criminal records of her captors, and the resolution of the kidnapping case will also be discussed. Summary of the Kidnapping Jaycee Dugard, age 11, was kidnapped outside of her home on June 10, 1991, in South Lake Tahoe, California by Phillip and Nancy Garrido. Robert Salonga’s article “A Decade After Emerging From Captivity in the Bay Area, Jaycee Dugard Reflects on the Life She Lost, and the One She’s Gained” explains that Philip and Nancy Garrido drove up to Dugard at the school bus stop near her home, …show more content…

Jaycee’s stepfather immediately reported the crime, yet despite having an eyewitness account and immediate reporting of the crime, the kidnapping remained unsolved for eighteen years. Involuntary Servitude The article “Jaycee Dugard” from “The Crime Museum” explains that Dugard was stripped of her clothes and locked in a soundproof recording studio in her abusers’ backyard in Antioch, California, 170 miles away from where she had been kidnapped (Jaycee Dugard 2023). Jaycee Dugard had no history with her captors, yet her captors isolated her and used her for involuntary sexual servitude (Salonga, 2019). Philip Garrido raped her repeatedly and impregnated her twice, resulting in Jaycee giving birth to two daughters, one at age 14, and another at age 17 (Jaycee Dugard 2023). According to the article “A World of Nightmare: Jaycee Lee Dugard’s Story” Philip Garrido was imprisoned in 1977 for life after kidnapping and raping a woman in a storage unit in Reno, Nevada. Garrido was granted early release after spending 11 years as an inmate (Doward & Johnson,

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