Jaycee Dugard Part 1: Recalling the Day She Was Kidnapped — Transcript

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1. 0:01on any given day in America you could be
2. 0:04walking by someone whose story could
3. 0:05change your
4. 0:07life
5. 0:09next a young woman who seems to be in an
6. 0:11ordinary happy day you pass by no idea
7. 0:15what she's
8. 0:17[Music]
9. 0:19endured no idea that she was once a
10. 0:22little girl taken captive by a sex
11. 0:24offender held prisoner for 18 years
12. 0:27surviving his rages his abuse giving
13. 0:30birth to two children in a hidden
14. 0:32backyard this was JC Lee Dugard when her
15. 0:35childhood was stolen this was JC Lee
16. 0:38Dugard 5 years ago when she talked to me
17. 0:40after her rescue my world changed in an
18. 0:43instant and this is JY Lee Dugard
19. 0:47today reemerging out of her privacy with
20. 0:50lessons she's learned in the past 5
21. 0:52Years thank you about transforming
22. 0:55suffering into joy every single
23. 0:58day
24. 1:00oh this is my favorite an unexpected
25. 1:02master class in resilience and renewal
26. 1:05from someone who had to learn life's
27. 1:07toughest lessons at age 11 look at her
28. 1:10it's as if time stopped do you feel 35
29. 1:1336 I'm closer to
30. 1:1540 say I look a little bit older please
31. 1:18sorry I feel old I feel like I've lived
32. 1:24a lot of lifetimes you know and I don't
33. 1:27really I I don't know I don't really put
34. 1:28an age to myself when you I know when
35. 1:30you look in the mirror do you yes you do
36. 1:33no I mean like when you look in the
37. 1:34mirror do you yes even her face in some
38. 1:37ways a constant reminder of the time
39. 1:40stolen from her all those years as a
40. 1:42captive in a predator's backyard a
41. 1:45prisoner inside a shed your
42. 1:48skin not no sun for 18 years but you
43. 1:51said your eyes are still very sensitive
44. 1:54to light yeah very very sensitive to to
45. 1:57sunlight a scar invisible to the World
46. 2:00scars she says she accepts in the life
47. 2:02she now lives with her mother and her
48. 2:04daughters the one she gave birth to in
49. 2:06captivity she has written a second book
50. 2:09about finding the path to your life to
51. 2:11freedom I don't think there's anything
52. 2:13inside me that isn't in anybody else
53. 2:15it's taken a lot of time and it hasn't
54. 2:18hasn't come overnight you know you have
55. 2:20to put in the hard work and cry and for
56. 2:23sure laugh about everything that you can
57. 2:26she says sometimes you can only find the
58. 2:28light by looking straight through the
59. 2:30dark memories what it was like being in
60. 2:32the backyard it's always there in the
61. 2:35back of my
62. 2:36mind never really goes away the backyard
63. 2:40that's always how you call it the
64. 2:45fences the prison backyard there is no
65. 2:48way to tell you about the Triumph of JC
66. 2:50Dugard today without taking you back
67. 2:53hello to those last moments when she was
68. 2:55still a safe and happy little girl an
69. 2:5811-year-old Who Loved her mom her little
70. 3:01sister a cat named Monkey a child who
71. 3:03also loves words and books and her fifth
72. 3:05grade class at school on June 10th 1991
73. 3:09as she always did she walked up the
74. 3:11little Hill in front of her house in
75. 3:12Lake Tahoe California to catch the
76. 3:15school bus she was dressed in her
77. 3:17favorite outfit pink tights and a white
78. 3:19T-shirt with a pink kitty cat on front
79. 3:23she reaches the road a gray car pulls up
80. 3:26a stranger rolls down the window and his
81. 3:28hand shoots out
82. 3:30and I just feel numb he had shocked her
83. 3:33with a stun gun my whole body is tingly
84. 3:36I don't know what it's from she falls to
85. 3:38the ground unconscious the man driving
86. 3:41is Philip guito a convicted sex offender
87. 3:43sentenced to 50 years in prison but
88. 3:46released after just 11 in the car with
89. 3:48him his wife Nancy prosecutors will say
90. 3:51she helped scalp the little girl as his
91. 3:53prize it is Nancy who has the
92. 3:5611-year-old child pinned to the back
93. 3:58seat floor I heard the driver say I
94. 4:02can't believe we got away with it and he
95. 4:04started laughing the gitos drive their
96. 4:06captive 1 15 Mi to a blue house in the
97. 4:09neighborhood near San Francisco an
98. 4:11ordinary looking house but concealed
99. 4:14behind there is a fence and behind the
100. 4:17fence a deranged
101. 4:19scene a collection of rundown sheds and
102. 4:22Stor units hidden in the trees gito
103. 4:25strips off her clothes her little pink
104. 4:27tights and puts a blanket over her head
105. 4:30he takes the naked child into this shed
106. 4:33tiny completely soundproof he tells her
107. 4:36he's going to put her in handcuffs said
108. 4:39that they they were the fuzzy kind so
109. 4:41they wouldn't hurt as bad he locks her
110. 4:44inside and she has no idea that this
111. 4:47prison backyard will be her life for 18
112. 4:51years strange what fades in memory
113. 4:54strange what remains in Her Dream she
114. 4:57used to see that little pink outfit with
115. 4:59the kitty cat he just burned it
116. 5:03mhm yeah I still think about that little
117. 5:06outfit for some reason naked handcuffed
118. 5:09weeping alone the only thing she has
119. 5:12left from her safe and happy life is a
120. 5:15little ring shaped like a butterfly she
121. 5:17takes it off and manages to hide it from
122. 5:20him for 18 years until she's free again
123. 5:24she's 11 years old and knows nothing
124. 5:26about his plans she thinks sex is Ken
125. 5:29and Barbie dolls sleeping near each
126. 5:31other then one day he brings her a treat
127. 5:34a milkshake she is still in handcuffs my
128. 5:37first taste of of Pure Evil you knew it
129. 5:39was pure evil at some yeah it is the
130. 5:42first day he rapes her I mean maybe I
131. 5:46didn't register that and go oh my God
132. 5:48you're evil but your body and your you
133. 5:51know there's something inside of you
134. 5:52that knows this is this is not right the
135. 5:56pain the abject fear afterwards she
136. 5:59remembers seeing a trail of ants make
137. 6:01their way towards that untouched
138. 6:04milkshake at one point he gives her a TV
139. 6:07tuned in to QVC I would fall asleep to
140. 6:11the sound of jewelry being sold but at
141. 6:14least it
142. 6:15Wason we say hello to Selena her only
143. 6:19company is a spider on the wall she
144. 6:21names Bianca it was not a day that I
145. 6:24didn't cry I felt like there would never
146. 6:27ever be a day that I wouldn't cry again
147. 6:29there's a to over the window in the shed
148. 6:31after he leaves she pulls it down with
149. 6:33her teeth Moonlight streams through when
150. 6:36we talked 5 years ago here's what she
151. 6:39told me about thinking of her mother and
152. 6:41how it got her through the nights we
153. 6:44would always sit on the porch
154. 6:46and we would debate whether the full
155. 6:50moon or the crescent moon was the better
156. 6:54Moon I always liked the full moon and
157. 6:57she liked the crescent
158. 7:01[Music]
159. 7:03and just always made me think of her do
160. 7:06you remember the song you and your mom
161. 7:08sang looking at the
162. 7:12moon I you are the moon How does it go
163. 7:16forget I love the moon and the moon sees
164. 7:20me I see the moon and the moon sees me
165. 7:23God bless the moon and God bless
166. 7:25[Music]
167. 7:28me
168. 7:39for