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Kidnapped girl returns after 18 years
Jaycee Lee Dugard was abducted 18 years ago in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. Dugard, who was snatched as an 11-year-old child in 1991 turned up Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009, after being held for the past 18 years in isolation in a backyard compound in Antioch, Calif. by a convicted sex offender who fathered two children with her, police said.
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This family photo released by Carl Probyn on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009, shows his stepdaughter, Jaycee Lee Dugard, who went missing in 1991. The woman who was snatched from a bus stop as an 11-year-old child turned up at a California police station after 18 mysterious years, and a convicted sex offender and his wife were arrested in the kidnapping.
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