Garrido's past
updated: Thu Sep 10 2009 11:33:00
CNN.com's Mallory Simon says Phillip Garrido, charged in the 1991 kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard, was convicted of kidnapping before.
Facing the world after an isolating and traumatic experience is often stressful, especially for those who have been away for a long time.
The girl held captive for 18 years now faces the challenges of re-entering the world. CNN's Brian Todd reports.
For 18 years, a girl who was whisked away into a secret backyard compound was forced to grow up in isolation.
Austrian police were on Saturday hunting possible accomplices of a kidnapper who held a young girl in a basement "dungeon" and is believed to have sexually assaulted her over an eight-year period until her escape this week.
DNA tests have confirmed the identity of a young Austrian woman believed to have been held captive in a basement "dungeon" and sexually assaulted over an eight-year period.
The family of a young Austrian woman who has escaped after an 8-year kidnapping ordeal has said it always believed she would one day come back.
American journalist Jill Carroll, who was released this week after being held hostage in Iraq for almost three months, has slammed the United States and praised Iraqi insurgents in a video posted on an Islamist Web site.
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