Diane Sawyer Exclusive Interview: Jaycee Lee Dugard Kidnapped at Age 11 (07.10.11) — Transcript

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1. 0:00in her book of stolen Life JC Dugard has
2. 0:02a quote from TS Elliot about people who
3. 0:05carry the light of Hope in the world who
4. 0:07hold it close and wait wherever the
5. 0:09journey takes them we want to thank all
6. 0:12of you who've gathered to watch her
7. 0:14story some of it is harrowing some of it
8. 0:16will make you simply outraged especially
9. 0:19when you see the times law enforcement
10. 0:21could have saved her and did not and at
11. 0:24the Predators who defy understanding but
12. 0:28in the end JC Dugard would find a way to
13. 0:31save herself with a light no one could
14. 0:33extinguish holding on to Hope a mother
15. 0:37who would never let go and some caring
16. 0:39and observant strangers who would make
17. 0:41it possible one day for her to call her
18. 0:44mother and say I am alive I'm coming
19. 0:48home she was a little girl with a name
20. 0:51right out of a story book JC Lee Dugard
21. 0:54age 11 years old hello a girl who loved
22. 0:58her mom her little sister a cat named
23. 1:01monkey and school and books and stories
24. 1:03and by holding on to the memory of
25. 1:05everything she love survived and would
26. 1:08Triumph after a battle in a monstrous
27. 1:11backyard where a convicted sex offender
28. 1:13LED out of prison Philip guito and his
29. 1:16wife Nancy kidnapped her handcuffed her
30. 1:19imprisoned her had her give birth
31. 1:21outside and over and over again the
32. 1:24justice system would fail her for 18
33. 1:28years she was forbidden to say her own
34. 1:30name so this is how her book a stolen
35. 1:33Life Begins let's get one thing straight
36. 1:36my name is JC Lee Dugard I was kidnapped
37. 1:39by a stranger at age 11 and I want
38. 1:42Philip gero to know that I no longer
39. 1:44have to keep his secret I was happy she
40. 1:47is 31 years old she looks impossibly
41. 1:50young I know I was worried about I wear
42. 1:53heel she is also someone who laughs a
43. 1:56lot and has Delight in ordinary things
44. 1:59on ordinary days oh my I do Drive I
45. 2:04drive very
46. 2:05safely you would never know what she
47. 2:08survived oh my pine cone unless you
48. 2:10notice how her face changes when she
49. 2:12speaks of the past and the charm around
50. 2:15her neck it's a pine cone back then it
51. 2:17was the last thing I touched you know
52. 2:20the last grip on me now it's it's a
53. 2:25symbol of Hope and New Beginning
54. 2:30me
55. 2:32and
56. 2:34that there is life after something
57. 2:37tragic and tonight she says this is what
58. 2:40she wants to do she will not speak of
59. 2:42every detail she has written in her book
60. 2:44but lessons of Hope and survival and
61. 2:47what it meant to her to have a mother
62. 2:49who would never let go it is June 10th
63. 2:531991 JC Dugard wakes up in this house in
64. 2:56Lake Tahoe California where her family's
65. 2:58moved because it's a safe place to live
66. 3:01she's in the fifth grade and remembers
67. 3:03worrying about the field trip coming up
68. 3:05because she's so shy remembers dressing
69. 3:08in her favorite all pink outfit and she
70. 3:11remembers the mom she absolutely Ador
71. 3:13had to leave early for her work as a typ
72. 3:15Setter at a print house and didn't keep
73. 3:17a promise she said that she'd give me a
74. 3:19kiss goodbye she didn't I wasn't mad I
75. 3:23just you know thought I'd catch her when
76. 3:25I got home you know tell her you got to
77. 3:28give me a kiss next time you know
78. 3:31she also remembers there was something
79. 3:33she had wanted to ask her mom wanted to
80. 3:35ask my mom if I could shave for the
81. 3:40field trip you know shave your legs yeah
82. 3:43big question want to be embarrassed yeah
83. 3:46yeah didn't want to be embarrassed so
84. 3:49that was the big question on my mind she
85. 3:54walks up the hill from the house to
86. 3:55catch the school bus the way her mother
87. 3:57taught her looking out for traffic
88. 3:59walked up the side of the hill I was the
89. 4:01safe way to go against traffic and um
90. 4:05halfway
91. 4:08up my world changed in an
92. 4:12instant I thought oh somebody's looking
93. 4:15for directions a gray car pulls up a man
94. 4:18rolls down the window cuz what else
95. 4:20would it be and his hand shoots out and
96. 4:24I just feel numb my whole body is tingly
97. 4:27I don't know what it's from
98. 4:30I fall back in the bushes she had been
99. 4:32Paralyzed by a stun gun I lost control
100. 4:35of my bladder I wasn't even embarrassed
101. 4:38no time to be embarrassed on the ground
102. 4:41the sharp edges of a pine cone are the
103. 4:44last thing she touches before she comes
104. 4:46to face down on the floor in the back
105. 4:49seat of a car I remember my throat felt
106. 4:52very dry and Scratchy and like I had
107. 4:55been screaming but I don't remember
108. 4:57screaming The Man Behind The Wheel is
109. 4:59Philip guito a convicted sex offender
110. 5:02supposedly monitored by parole officers
111. 5:05and doctors holding her down on the
112. 5:07floor as his wife Nancy the district
113. 5:09attorney believes Nancy scouted this
114. 5:12little girl for her husband as a prize
115. 5:15did they say anything did you hear
116. 5:16anything no not at first after we were
117. 5:19driving for a while I heard the driver
118. 5:22say I can't believe we got away with it
119. 5:25and he started laughing I think I
120. 5:27blacked out again or something it was
121. 5:29like
122. 5:32the most horrible moment of your
123. 5:36life times
124. 5:3810 120 M later the car stops in front of
125. 5:42this house on a neighborhood street
126. 5:45Dorito tells her to be quiet I said you
127. 5:47know I think it's probably one of the
128. 5:49only things I said was my family doesn't
129. 5:53have a lot of money they can't pay the
130. 5:54ransom that's what I kidnap as Ransom
131. 5:57right yeah
132. 6:00no not
133. 6:02always he is 40 years old 6' 4 in tall
134. 6:06she is 11 4' 6 80 lb he takes away the
135. 6:12pink clothes she dressed in that morning
136. 6:15the only thing she has left is a little
137. 6:17ring shaped like a butterfly she will
138. 6:19hide from him for 18 years blanket over
139. 6:22her head he walks her through a small
140. 6:24area of grass toward a fence where an
141. 6:26opening is concealed by a tarp and
142. 6:28hidden behind the fence deranged
143. 6:30collection of sheds and storage units
144. 6:32which the people monitoring gito would
145. 6:35not search one of them tiny completely
146. 6:39soundproof he leads her inside and takes
147. 6:41out handcuffs said that they there were
148. 6:44the fuzzy kind so they wouldn't hurt as
149. 6:48bad whatever behind your back yeah um
150. 6:52there was a pallet on the floor then he
151. 6:55said he'd be back
152. 6:57later and he shut
153. 7:00the studio or the soundproof door and
154. 7:02then the other door with the lock you
155. 7:05heard that that lock yeah I can still
156. 7:08hear it consciously or when I'm awake
157. 7:13get some sounds and smells and this
158. 7:16don't leave you he warns her there are
159. 7:18dogs outside Dobermans they'll attack if
160. 7:21she tries to escape she notices there's
161. 7:24one window covered with bars and a towel
162. 7:27he leaves at one point you write you get
163. 7:32up and you take your teeth and you pull
164. 7:34a towel off I wanted to see where I was
165. 7:37yeah I couldn't use my hands there was
166. 7:41just weeds and some kind of fence naked
167. 7:47in handcuffs she drifts in and out of
168. 7:49sleep crying I didn't really want to
169. 7:52because then you can't wipe them away
170. 7:55you know then you get all sticky
171. 7:57and you know I mean sounds awful but you
172. 8:01know I tried not to cry because
173. 8:04it I couldn't wipe them away
174. 8:07or you know and then they get itchy and
175. 8:10at one point she made a note to remember
176. 8:13the sound of the train so it would help
177. 8:15her mom find her then later it was just
178. 8:18listening to lawn mowers
179. 8:21and airplanes
180. 8:25anything for human contact I guess I L
181. 8:29so lonely I I
182. 8:32didn't I felt so alone have you seen JC
183. 8:35Lee Dugard and 12 M away the mother who
184. 8:39loves her and will never give up goes on
185. 8:42television to make her first plea she
186. 8:45pretty young innocent child friends have
187. 8:48been searching all day and evening
188. 8:51police started searching the
189. 8:52neighborhood police set up a roadblock
190. 8:54and go door too her classmates are out
191. 8:56in the streets holding up signs and it's
192. 8:59time that she comes home and she has
193. 9:01written that all alone that night she
194. 9:04decided to cling to something that would
195. 9:06sustain her there is Moonlight streaming
196. 9:09through the towel it makes her think of
197. 9:11her mother we would always sit on the
198. 9:13porch
199. 9:15and we would debate whether the full
200. 9:19moon or the crescent moon was the better
201. 9:22Moon I always liked the full moon and
202. 9:26she liked the crescent
203. 9:32and just always made me think of her do
204. 9:35you remember the song you and your mom
205. 9:37sign looking at the
206. 9:40moon I you are the moon How does it go
207. 9:45forget I love the moon and the moon sees
208. 9:48me I see the moon and the moon sees me
209. 9:52God bless the moon and God bless me
210. 9:57[Music]