Kidnapping survivor Jaycee Dugard will break her silence today in her first television appearance since she was freed from the clutches of a psycho sex offender who held her captive in his backyard for 18 years. Clips from a home-video snapped by Dugard’s mother over the holidays will appear on ABC’s Good Morning America, 20/20, and Nightline Friday.
In the video, Dugard’s mother, Terry Probyn, can be heard saying: “We released this video so that you can see that we are happy and well.”
Dugard, then 11, was snatched near her family’s home in South Lake Tahoe, California in 1991. She was then held for years in a backyard shack by convicted rapist Phillip Garrido, who repeatedly sexually abused her and fathered two children with her.