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Updated On: 31 August, 2009 07:29 AM IST | | Agencies
Woman who was kidnapped as a 11-year-old and held as a sex slave for 18 years tells family she feels guilty about 'bonding with kidnapper'
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Woman who was kidnapped as a 11-year-old and held as a sex slaveu00a0 for 18 years tells family she feels guilty about 'bonding with kidnapper'
Jaycee Lee Dugard, now 29, was snatched from the street outside her parents' home aged 11, and had two children with her abductor Phillip Garrido, a convicted sex offender. He kept them in a secret compound at his home.
Her stepfather, Carl Probyn (60), said yesterday: "Jaycee feels really guilty for bonding with this man. There's really a guilt trip here."
That has led to speculation that Dugard exhibits the classic signs of Stockholm Syndrome (see box), a psychological disorder in which a captive comes over time to feel entirely dependant on, and even affectionate towards, his or her captor.
Jaycee Lee Dugard, now 29, was snatched from the street outside her parents' home aged 11, and had two children with her abductor Phillip Garrido, a convicted sex offender. He kept them in a secret compound at his home.
Her stepfather, Carl Probyn (60), said yesterday: "Jaycee feels really guilty for bonding with this man. There's really a guilt trip here."
That has led to speculation that Dugard exhibits the classic signs of Stockholm Syndrome (see box), a psychological disorder in which a captive comes over time to feel entirely dependant on, and even affectionate towards, his or her captor.
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