California, June 3(ANI): US kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard has said that her life was stolen when she was abducted by Phillip and Nancy Garrido at the age of 11 in June 1991, and she hated every second of her 18 years in captivity.
Now 31, she made her first public statement, read in El Dorado County Superior Court by her mother, as Phillip and Nancy were sentenced for kidnapping and rape.
Philip was sentenced to 431 years, while his wife received 36 years to life.
Dugard was kept with her two daughters, now aged 13 and 16, in the backyard of the Garrido home in California in a compound of tents and sheds.
"I chose not to be here today because I refuse to waste another second of my life in your presence. Everything you ever did to me was wrong and I hope one day you will see that," Dugard said in her statement, directed at Phillip.
"I hated every second of every day for 18 years. You stole my life and that of my family," she added.
Dugard has received a 20 million dollar settlement from the California state assembly, which has acknowledged repeated mistakes in the monitoring of Phillip, as he had a previous conviction for rape and was on the sex offenders' list. (ANI)
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