JAYCEE DUGARD OPENS UP : After 18-year abduction ordeal — Transcript

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1. 0:00you know, my first reaction is one of
2. 0:02concern. And the concern comes out of
3. 0:06the idea that the that they could
4. 0:09actually get in front of the media. And
5. 0:13I'm concerned about that because as we
6. 0:14know in this business that you don't
7. 0:17control the media, the media controls
8. 0:20the story. And so I'm concerned about
9. 0:22her having her image out so early when
10. 0:24it's only been seven weeks. Um, I
11. 0:26understand the empowerment experience,
12. 0:28but it just is disconcerting for how the
13. 0:30paparazzi may react. Are you saying as a
14. 0:33psychologist you would have advised
15. 0:34against it? I would have. Ernie Allen,
16. 0:37you're a president of the National
17. 0:40Center for Missing and Exploited
18. 0:41Children. What's your reaction?
19. 0:44Well, Larry, I I don't agree. I think
20. 0:47it's an incredibly empowering moment for
21. 0:50JC and her family. There's been massive
22. 0:52media interest across this country. We
23. 0:55and others have counseledled this family
24. 0:57to maintain seclusion, to deal with this
25. 1:00difficult reunification process, but I
26. 1:02think this is a way of sending a message
27. 1:04to the American public that JC Duggard
28. 1:07is well, uh, that she's progressing and
29. 1:10and I think it's not exploitive. I think
30. 1:11it's empowering.
31. 1:14JD, could it set off a media frenzy
32. 1:16though Paparazzi going up to Northern
33. 1:18California now? She did it there. Do it
34. 1:20for us. I don't think so. In fact, I
35. 1:21think what it does is take a little
36. 1:24pressure off this family because as much
37. 1:26as we would like to think that people
38. 1:28are respectful of people in these
39. 1:30situations, I think uh being JC is is
40. 1:33very difficult and the fact that there
41. 1:35was only this image of her as a small
42. 1:37child out there uh led to a lot of
43. 1:40speculation. You've seen it yourself,
44. 1:42pictures being disseminated in tabloids
45. 1:44uh that were not her. A lot of
46. 1:46curiosity, money probably being paid to
47. 1:48people to try and get this photograph.
48. 1:50Um, so I think the family did a very
49. 1:52smart thing and I will say because we've
50. 1:54dealt with a family for a long time that
51. 1:56they have handled this incredibly well
52. 1:58and have been extremely careful about
53. 2:01exposing not just JC but her daughters
54. 2:03to any kind of undue attention. Dr.
55. 2:06Gullen, you were nodding as both Mr.
56. 2:08Allen and Mr. Haymon spoke, but you
57. 2:10disagree with them. Well, I mean, I
58. 2:12understand the experience of of it being
59. 2:14empowering and having the choice to do
60. 2:16it. I'm just concerned that at some
61. 2:19point in the near future, you know, I
62. 2:22heard someone say, you know, you can't
63. 2:23give the beast an orurb and expect them
64. 2:26to be satisfied. And and so it it's just
65. 2:29my concern is now everyone of those the
66. 2:33the paparazzi may be very interested in
67. 2:35now getting pictures of the girls
68. 2:36because we only saw the back of their
69. 2:38heads and and we know how this business
70. 2:39works. And so my concern is for the
71. 2:42emotional well-being of the of the
72. 2:45children. Ernie, does what Dr. Gllum
73. 2:48said impress you at all?
74. 2:51No, it does. And I think she's right.
75. 2:54That's one of the reasons why uh we have
76. 2:57worked with this family. We provided the
77. 2:59psychologists to help this family
78. 3:01through the reunification process. Uh
79. 3:03that's why we've tried so hard to make
80. 3:05sure that that they can remain secluded,
81. 3:08that they can deal with with this
82. 3:10difficult challenge. You can't erase
83. 3:12these 18 years. uh this is going to be a
84. 3:15long a lifelong process of recovery. Uh
85. 3:18but but I think what they were trying to
86. 3:20do was respond to the overwhelming
87. 3:24interest. Uh hundreds of searching
88. 3:26families had been inspired and uplifted
89. 3:28by this. And so I think this was an
90. 3:30effort to send a message that they're
91. 3:32doing fine and they're making progress
92. 3:34and that there is hope. was I I just
93. 3:38want to pick on up on something that you
94. 3:39said which is for most of us the
95. 3:41experience of missing and exploited
96. 3:43children are pictures on the internet or
97. 3:46on a milk carton and these are children
98. 3:48that are frozen in time and the terrible
99. 3:50things that happen to them um are never
100. 3:53seen and happy endings aren't seen and I
101. 3:56think we're able to present an image of
102. 3:58somebody who survived this ordeal who
103. 4:00may have a long way to go but who has
104. 4:02survived and is seemingly thriving is
105. 4:04very important JC spokes person on why
106. 4:06JC wanted the world to see her picture
107. 4:09today in 60 seconds.