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Jaycee 'failed by parole officers'
Officials failed to properly supervise the convicted rapist accused of abducting her and missed "numerous" clues during her 18 years of captivity, the report by California's Inspector General found.
Phillip Garrido, 58, who is charged with abducting Dugard, committed a series of parole violations that should have led to his earlier capture by authorities in the state, said Inspector General David Shaw.
He wrote: "Despite numerous clues and opportunities, the department, as well as federal and local law enforcement, failed to detect Garrido's criminal conduct, resulting in the continued confinement and victimisation of Jaycee and her two daughters."
Garrido and his wife Nancy, 54, are accused of snatching Dugard from a street near her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991, when she was 11 years old, and holding her for 18 years in a squalid warren of tents and sheds in their back yard.
Authorities say Garrido, who was on parole at the time after serving ten years in prison for a 1976 rape, fathered Dugard's two daughters during that time.
Dugard, now 29, surfaced in late August after Garrido aroused police suspicion at a college campus.
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