'Wife guarded victim Jaycee'.NANCY GARRIDO watched over kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard for years while she cared for her elderly, bedridden bed·rid·den or bed·rid adj. Confined to bed because of illness or infirmity. mother-inlaw at the home she shared with her husband. When Phillip Garrido went to prison for six weeks on a parole violation, his wife watched Jaycee at the home in California, authorities said. The emerging details paint a conflicting portrait of the 54-yearold woman charged with her husband over the kidnapping kidnapping, in law, the taking away of a person by force, threat, or deceit, with intent to cause him to be detained against his will. Kidnapping may be done for ransom or for political or other purposes. and rape of Jaycee, now 29, whom authorities say had two children with Garrido during her 18 years imprisoned im·pris·on tr.v. im·pris·oned, im·pris·on·ing, im·pris·ons To put in or as if in prison; confine. [Middle English emprisonen, from Old French emprisoner : en- in the back garden. Both have pleaded not guilty. Jaycee's stepfather, Carl Probyn, said Nancy Garrido fitted the description "deadon" of the woman who pulled the then 11-yearold into a car nearly two decades ago. Nancy Garrido's lawyer, Gilbert Maines, did not immediately return messages seeking comment. But on CBS's The Early Show yesterday, he said his client loved and missed the two girls her husband fathered with Jaycee and said she saw them all as a family. It was unclear if the lawyer would claim Garrido was coerced into aiding her husband. |
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