EARLY RELEASES AND POOR PAROLE SUPERVISION CAN BE VERY COSTLY (2)

A sharp parole agent with a police background would have been very suspicious of Jaycee and her 12-year-old daughter living with a convicted sex-offender and would have conducted the appropriate investigation. Accepting Garrido’s explanation that the young girl was his niece is an example of piss-poor parole supervision and having a large case load is no excuse for that kind of a fuck-up.
　
PAROLE OFFICERS SPOKE TO KIDNAP VICTIM JAYCEE DUGARD DURING HER CAPTIVITY – BUT DIDN’T BOTHER TO FOLLOW IT UP

Mail Online
July 8, 2010
　
A new report has revealed that parole agents spoke to kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard while she was being held captive by a convicted rapist, but never bothered to follow it up.
　
Ms Dugard, now 30, says parole agents spoke with her during her 18 year captivity and also to the elder of the two daughters she bore to Phillip Garrido.

The report was prepared by the California attorney general's office and was sent to authorities ahead of a decision last week to grant a £13.2million [$20 million] settlement to the Dugard family after police failed to find her.
　
Ms Dugard and her daughters, aged 15 and 12, claimed state parole agents failed to properly supervise Garrido from 1999 and did not follow up on reports and observations that might have led to their rescue.

Previous reports from the state corrections department and an independent inspector said parole agents had discovered one of the girls Garrido fathered with Ms Dugard, but accepted the explanation that she was a niece.
　
That contact was made in 2008 when the girl was 12.

But those reports made no mention of any contact between parole agents and Ms Dugard while she was being held captive.

The report highlights the reasons behind the decision to settle the £13.2million claim.
　
It says the claim is supported by a number of allegations, including 'that agents saw and spoke to Ms Dugard and her eldest daughter but failed to investigate their identities or their relationship to Garrido'.
　
Attorney general spokesman Christine Gasparac said the allegations were made by Ms Dugard through her lawyers during the settlement negotiations.
　
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has said he will sign the settlement.