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Jaycee Dugard Interview: Diane Sawyer Speaks Candidly With Survivor — Transcript

by ABC News · 488 words · 80 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

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  1. 0:00and now my exclusive interview with Jac
  2. 0:02Dugard a woman who endured the
  3. 0:04unimaginable and emerged with powerful
  4. 0:06lessons on love and life she was
  5. 0:10kidnapped as an 11-year-old child and
  6. 0:13imprisoned abused in mind and in body
  7. 0:17she gave birth in a backyard now for the
  8. 0:20first time we hear her
  9. 0:24speak this is how she looked the last
  10. 0:26time we saw her a little girl with a
  11. 0:28name out of a story book h J Lee Dugard
  12. 0:3111 years old a girl who loved her mom
  13. 0:36her little sister thank you and a cat
  14. 0:39named Monkey a fifth grader who set out
  15. 0:41for the school bus one morning where she
  16. 0:43was kidnapped by a convicted sex
  17. 0:46predator Philip guito who handcuffed her
  18. 0:50raped her imprisoned her and she gave
  19. 0:53birth twice in a deranged backyard for
  20. 0:5718 years she was never allowed to say
  21. 1:00her name on the day her first child is
  22. 1:03born she is alone in her backyard prison
  23. 1:07so August 18th 1994 you're how
  24. 1:11old
  25. 1:1314 you're you're in labor and there's
  26. 1:16nobody there having a
  27. 1:18baby in a
  28. 1:21backyard yep I
  29. 1:25did very painful but
  30. 1:30then I saw
  31. 1:32her she
  32. 1:35was
  33. 1:40beautiful I I felt like I wasn't alone
  34. 1:48anymore had
  35. 1:50somebody that was
  36. 1:56mine I wasn't alone
  37. 2:02and I knew I could never let anything
  38. 2:03happen to
  39. 2:07her I didn't know how I was going to do
  40. 2:09that but I
  41. 2:12did in her Story of Survival a lesson
  42. 2:16for every person alive I'm trying to
  43. 2:21imagine how you are coping I'm trying to
  44. 2:26imagine I don't
  45. 2:28know I can't imagine being beaten to
  46. 2:30death you know but and you can't imagine
  47. 2:34being kidnapped and and raped you know
  48. 2:37so it's just you just do what you have
  49. 2:39to do to
  50. 2:41survive and 18 years later a stunning
  51. 2:45reunion with the mother who loves her
  52. 2:48but remembers something she forgot to do
  53. 2:50for her child that day 18 years ago I
  54. 2:54had been late to work three Monday
  55. 2:57Mornings in a row and I was focused on
  56. 3:00myself trying to get myself out that
  57. 3:03door so it wouldn't be late for work and
  58. 3:06I chose not to go in and kiss my girls
  59. 3:09goodbye that
  60. 3:12morning wanting to be on
  61. 3:15time
  62. 3:18and for 18 years I kick myself for not
  63. 3:24kissing that baby
  64. 3:26goodbye how could you have known though
  65. 3:28you can't beat yourself up about
  66. 3:31that
  67. 3:35no but it's a good lesson you know take
  68. 3:38a minute for your
  69. 3:41kids do
  70. 3:44that extra thing
  71. 3:46that may be an inconvenience to you but
  72. 3:50is important to
  73. 3:54them it is an astonishing story of Hope
  74. 3:58and enduring love love and courage Jai
  75. 4:01her mother and also Chris CUA will be
  76. 4:04investigating how law enforcement failed
  77. 4:06to find her even though they made 60
  78. 4:09visits to the house where she was being
  79. 4:12held a 2-hour special this Sunday from 9
  80. 4:15to 11: Eastern Time

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