Jaycee Dugard’s Memoir

The Idea of Racism Is a Ruse

Shinyung Oh

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Let’s talk about one case of abduction.

One morning in South Lake Tahoe in 1991, 11 year old Jaycee Dugard was abducted by Richard Garrido as she walked to her school bus stop. For 18 years, she was kept in Garrido’s backyard as a sex slave and forced to have two children by him. When she was discovered at the age of 29, her children were 11 and 15. The country shuddered in horror when we learned of her plight…

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