By Gina Gomez
Feb 15, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was held captive for 18 years, maintained a dairy in which she penned down the conflicting psychological turmoil that she went through during her captive years. Few passages of the journal were revealed on Thursday by the prosecutors of the case.

The snippets that have come to light highlight the fear, anxiety and helplessness of Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was kidnapped when she was 11 years old by Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy. She was held in confinement for 18 years before she was finally freed last August. In one of the dairy entries, the victim implied that she wants some control over her life. In another entry, Jaycee Lee Dugard reveals a yearning for freedom but at the same time also expresses a certain amount of compassion for her kidnapper Phillip Garrido, who has been charged with sexually abusing her and has also fathered her two children. Apart from the fear and the isolation that Jaycee Lee Dugard felt during her captive years, the passages also projects the conflicting emotions that she felt towards her captors. In one of the entries, the victim expresses ‘gratitude’ towards her captors for gifting her a kitten on her birthday where she also notes that this is something no one would have done for her.

Jaycee Lee Dugard was rescued last year after police raided the home of Phillip Garrido and found the victim in a ramshackle tent in Antioch, California. Her abductors are now behind the bars with as many as 29 charges levied against them which include kidnapping, rape, imprisonment.