OT - How to Donate to the Jaycee Dugard Trust Fund

[StoneCold]

I didn't want this to get lost in the thread shuffle so created one for those who want to help Jaycee. I've linked the source of the address.

Donations for Jaycee Dugard can be sent -- checks only -- to

Jaycee Dugard Trust Fund
c/o Viewtech Financial Services
P.O. Box 596
Atwood, CA 92811

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=8451296

How Jaycee Dugard Was Rescued From Phillip Garrido &

How to Donate to the Jaycee Dugard Trust Fund
By MIKE VON FREMD, KATE SNOW, SARAH NETTER & RONNA WALDMAN

Aug. 31, 2009—

The two police employees credited with cracking the abduction case said it was simply intuition that something was amiss when accused rapist and kidnapper Phillip Garrido showed up at a college campus with Dugard's two daughters.

"Their movements weren't that of ordinary girls," UC Berkeley Officer Ally Jacobs told "Good Morning America" today. "They were very robotic."

Lisa Campbell, a manager with the campus police who first spotted the trio handing out religious material at UC Bekeley, told "GMA" that there wasn't one thing that raised her suspicions.

Garrido, she said, "appeared to be really unstable, erratic in conversation" while his two daughters, Angel and Starlet, lingered in the background.

It was that meeting that blew open the disappearance of Jaycee Dugard who hadn't been heard of since June 10, 1991 when the then-11-year-old was snatched off the street near her South Lake Tahoe school bus stop.

Garrido's wife, Nancy Garrido, has also been arrested on more than two dozen charges. Both husband and wife have pleaded not guilty.

Donations for Jaycee Dugard can be sent -- checks only -- to Jaycee Dugard Trust Fund, c/o Viewtech Financial Services, P.O. Box 596, Atwood, Calif. 92811.

When Jacobs met the girls, 11 and 15, what she called mother's intuition kicked in right away.

"I observed two young girls, one of which was just staring at me very intensely with this very eerie smile on her face," she said. The older girl was acting "strange" and refusing to make eye contact with authorities, Jacobs said.

The girls told police that they were home schooled and that they had an "older sister" living at home. One of them, Jacobs said, had a bump over her eye.

That older sister was actually their mother, Jaycee Dugard. Garrido, a registered sex offender who had previously served time for kidnapping and rape, was their father.

The Berkeley officers ran a background check on Garrido and discovered he was on parole. They conctacted his parole officer and mentioned Garrido's two daughters. The parole officer, who had visited Garrido's home on previous occasions, immediately realized something was wrong because there had been no mention or signs of children in Garrido's life.

The parole officer called Garrido in for an interview and during that session, Jaycee Dugard announced her true identity and Garrdio admitted he had kidnapped her.

Jaycee was reunited last week with her mother, Terry Probyn, and her half-sister Shayna who was just a year old when Jaycee was kidnapped.

Her stepfather, Carl Probyn, told "GMA" today that mother and daughter are overjoyed to be together again, though Jaycee's family is having a hard time stomaching the details of her last 18 years.

"I actually stopped her and wouldn't let her tell me," Probyn said of the details his wife shared with him. "It upset me too bad."

Probyn said the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has been assisting the family and Jaycee has been meeting with a psychologist. Probyn told ABC News last week that his stepdaughter feels guilty for bonding with Garrido over the years.

"She's just going minute by minute," he said today, adding that all the girls are "very smart."

Authorities are combing the Garridos' Antioch, Calif., property and the next door plot that Phillip Garrido once took care of for clues in the Dugard case as well as a string of unsolved prostitute murders.

As the investigation works to unearth the hellish secrets of Garrido's back yard, a look inside the squalid complex of tents and sheds -- which locked only from the outside  gave a disturbing insight into the life Jaycee has had for nearly two decades.

Books were stacked on crudely built shelves among trash and a seemingly out of place "Welcome" sign. One of the book titles was "Self Esteem: A Family Affair." There was also a display of cat decorations adorning a dresser.

Jaycee Dugard: Hostage in Plain Sight

Authorities have said Jaycee may have acquired impressive computer skill during her imprisonment which she used to help Garrido's printing business.

Contractor Ben Daughdril was one of Garrido's regular customers and said that when he saw Jaycee there was never any indication that she had been kidnapped and was forced to live a life of filth and abuse.

"She was friendly. Didn't look distressed, didn't look upset," he said. "She came across as very professional and polite."

Campbell said Jaycee's case serves as a reminder for everyone to be very aware of their surroundings and to report anything that seems out of the ordinary.

"Be aware," she said. "Pay attention to things."

Garrido has maintained, both in interviews and writings, that he is a reformed man.

He walked into the FBI field office in San Francisco two days before his arrest and handed over a letter describing how he'd cured his disturbing sexual behaviors and how the information could be used to assist in curing sexual predators.

The FBI spokesman in San Francisco told ABC News the rambling letter is very similar to the postings on Garrido's website.

The document that talks about cures for sexual predators and ways of "controlling human impulses that drive humans to commit dysfunctional acts."

Probyn told "Good Morning America" on Sunday that his concern is Jaycee, not her kidnapper.

"It's been 18 years," Carl Probyn told "GMA" Sunday. "I'm glad we got her back. I don't care about him."

Probyn, 56, a wallpaper hanger, was suspected by some in-laws of being involved in the 1991 abduction. He concedes finding Dugard, who is now 29, is also a relief for him personally. "I'm free now," he said. "They caught him and it's solved."

Probyn says he's unaware if any of his relatives will apologize, but says he told his estranged wife Terry Probyn this weekend, "I don't want these people back in my life. They actually raised money to hire detectives to put me in jail."

Dugard Kidnapping Case Evidence Search Expanded

On the Antioch street where Garrido lived, the neighborhood kids nicknamed him "Creepy Phil." Now that he and his wife face 29 felony counts for what he allegedly did to Dugard over the past 18 years, Garrido, if convicted, will almost certainly die in prison.

During most of Garrido's 58 years, criminal records show a pattern of abusing or manipulating women.

His father, Manuel Garrido, is the first to admit his son was a troubled teenager.

"He was on LSD and he had a serious motorcycle wreck and hit his head," Manuel Garrido told reporters.

Phillip Garrido was first caught 33 years ago. A patrol officer saw a curious light inside an 8 foot by 10 foot storage unit in Reno, Nev. A police detective repeatedly banged on the door.

"He kept banging on the door until Mr. Garrido opened the door ... and a naked woman ran out," explained Dan DeMaranville, of the Reno police department. The officer then "stuck a gun up the guy's nose and that was end of that party," DeMaranville said.

Police say Garrido's Reno storage unit looked like a scene from a porno film. Garrido confessed to rape and was sent to Leavenworth Prison in Kansas.

Even from inside the penitentiary, DeMaranville said, Garrido convinced a woman, Nancy Boconegra to marry him. She has stayed with him to this day.

"He's a pervert," DeMaranville said. "He should have been neutered while he was in prison."

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[Rhiannon]

Bumping for awareness' sake.

[Ehwmatt]

Yes, just think if we all even sent a few bucks... could make a difference

[StoneCold]

Yes, just think if we all even sent a few bucks... could make a difference

Absolutely, if a lot of folks all send in just a little bit, it'll really add up. She shouldn't ever work again unless she wants to. Time for therapy and maybe travel so she can detox from the trauma and see the world now that she's physically free.

I still say the Judge and parole board should be held financially accountable but this is a start.

[Duncan]

Just wondering if you have a criminal compensation scheme in America? Over here victims of crime can claim compensation, albeit limited, from the government.

[Ehwmatt]

Just wondering if you have a criminal compensation scheme in America? Over here victims of crime can claim compensation, albeit limited, from the government.

Not from the government, as far as I know. Obviously, victims of crime can bring civil suit for damages against the perpetrator, but unless it's O.J. or Phil Spector, they probably won't be able to pay.

[Duncan]

Just wondering if you have a criminal compensation scheme in America? Over here victims of crime can claim compensation, albeit limited, from the government.

Not from the government, as far as I know. Obviously, victims of crime can bring civil suit for damages against the perpetrator, but unless it's O.J. or Phil Spector, they probably won't be able to pay.

You might find this interesting.

http://www.cica.gov.uk/

[Andrew]

She'll make a (well deserved) mint from the general media....no need to worry here I would think.

[Ehwmatt]

Just wondering if you have a criminal compensation scheme in America? Over here victims of crime can claim compensation, albeit limited, from the government.

Not from the government, as far as I know. Obviously, victims of crime can bring civil suit for damages against the perpetrator, but unless it's O.J. or Phil Spector, they probably won't be able to pay.

You might find this interesting.

http://www.cica.gov.uk/

Well, I'm naturally suspicious of government compensation programs, but that's definitely a better purpose than rewarding people for crapping out kids like diarrhea for a few extra coke bucks

[Duncan]

Just wondering if you have a criminal compensation scheme in America? Over here victims of crime can claim compensation, albeit limited, from the government.

Not from the government, as far as I know. Obviously, victims of crime can bring civil suit for damages against the perpetrator, but unless it's O.J. or Phil Spector, they probably won't be able to pay.

You might find this interesting.

http://www.cica.gov.uk/

Well, I'm naturally suspicious of government compensation programs, but that's definitely a better purpose than rewarding people for crapping out kids like diarrhea for a few extra coke bucks

yeah, we pay handsomely for that over here.