Return From A Life Taken

Eighteen Years After Her Abduction, Jaycee Lee Dugard Walked Back Into the World

By Neely TuckerWashington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Let’s start at the beginning.

Jaycee Lee Dugard, blond, bucktoothed and happy, sauntered past her stepdad in the garage of their house at 8:12 a.m. on June 11, 1991. It was the Monday of the last week of school. The family had moved to the sleepy little nowhere town of Meyers, Calif., from Orange County a couple of years earlier, because it was a safer place for kids.

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This was too bizarre to pass up. Go read the entire story here

I really don’t know what to say about this story. It’s un-imaginable that things like this happen, but I know they do. It’s also the kind of thing that parents all over the world have nightmares about.

I feel for the parents, especially the step dad. I’m a step dad too, and I can imagine how he felt being accused and interrogated for this event.

Just read the story.

Maybe it’s time to add a little more chlorine to the gene pool?