Jaycee Lee Dugard's daughters didn't know their mum had been kidnapped

Monday, August 31, 2009, 15:43 [IST]

London, Aug 31 (ANI): The two daughters Jaycee Lee Dugard had from 'American Fritzl' Phillip Garrido had no idea their mother had been kidnapped and sexually exploited by their father.

Garrido kept Jaycee as sex slave for 18 years and fathered two children with her - Angel and Starlet.

The details emerged as Phillip and his wife Nancy were held for trial after denying 29 charges of abduction, imprisonment and rape - and Jaycee was reunited with her family.

Dugard's step-father Carl Probyn has revealed that the girls, aged 15 and 11, didn't know that their mother was sex slave to the man they called dad.

Probyn said that are still coming to terms with the fact that their father has been taken away from them.

"They have been so sheltered around him, they were clinging to him. Basically they are upset about this because that's their father and he's in jail," the Telegraph quoted Probyn as telling ABC. (ANI)

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