Jaycee Dugard Files Lawsuit Against U.S. Government
The kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard filed a complaint for damages against the federal government on Thursday, charging that its parole agents did not adequately monitor Phillip Garrido, a convicted sex offender who was on federal parole when he abducted Ms. Dugard in 1991.
In the complaint, filed in United States District Court in San Francisco, lawyers for Ms. Dugard argue that agents charged with overseeing Mr. Garrido’s parole — which he was granted in 1988, after serving 11 years for a prior kidnapping and rape — did not report or act on a series of drug and alcohol violations. Mr. Garrido also repeatedly displayed disturbing behavior toward women while on parole, the complaint asserts, including contacting the victim of the 1976 kidnapping and rape that resulted in his first being sent to federal prison.
“The failures of federal parole authorities in handling Garrido’s case management are as outrageous and inexcusable as they are numerous,” the complaint reads…