Jaycee Dugard suspect fantasised about sex with young girls

Phillip Garrido told court he was ‘overcome’ with sexual desires before being convicted of rape and serving 10 years in 1977
The man accused of imprisoning Jaycee Lee Dugard for 18 years in his backyard in California previously confessed to fantasies about rape and to a sexual interest in young girls, according to previous trial transcripts and psychiatric assessments released today.
The insight into the mental state of Phillip Garrido, 58, comes from 1977, when he was convicted of kidnapping and raping a young woman, a crime for which he served 10 years in prison.
During the trial, Garrido said he had previously exposed himself to girls as young as seven, and that he spent time stalking them outside schools, where he waited in his car. He regularly used cocaine and LSD, which acted as sexual stimulants, he added.
“I have had this fantasy, and this sexual thing that has overcome me,” he told the trial. “I had this fantasy that was driving me to do this, inside of me; something that was making me want to do it without no way to stop it.”
The woman was snatched in 1976, when Garrido approached her as she was driving away from a food market and asked for a lift home, saying his car had broken down. He handcuffed and bound her and drove to a storage unit in Reno, Nevada, which he had set up as a place to carry out his sexual fantasies, investigators told the trial.
Garrido told the trial he did not believe he had done anything wrong: “I don’t go breaking into people’s houses. I don’t go to hurt anybody.”
Garrido and his wife Nancy, 54, have pleaded not guilty to 29 charges, including kidnapping, imprisonment and rape in connection with the abduction of Dugard, who was snatched on her way to school aged 11, in 1991. She was kept in a network of tents and sheds set up by Garrido in the yard of his home in Antioch, California, and had two daughters by him, now aged 11 and 15.
The earlier court documents show that in 1977 a judge turned down an attempt by Garrido’s lawyer to have him declared insane due to his heavy drug use.
A court-appointed psychiatrist examined Garrido in December 1976 and found him competent to stand trial, while noting his regular use of LSD and an emotionally troubled family background.
“He was preoccupied with the idea of sex and admitted to a history of several sexual disorders,” the psychiatrist reported, adding that he believed Garrido suffered from “a mixed sexual deviation and chronic drug abuse”.
A neurological report carried out soon afterwards found no definite evidence of brain damage: “LSD made him quite aggressive, which he realises,” it said. “He had used LSD prior to his alleged offence, but remembers the details of the abduction and sexual activity quite well.”
Garrido served 10 years in a federal prison in Kansas, before being granted parole. He then served seven months for the rape conviction in a Nevada prison before being granted an early release in August 1988. Less than three years later, he allegedly kidnapped Dugard.

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