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Oct 29, 2009 2:00 pm US/Central
Former Victim Speaks Out After Garrido Hearing
PLACERVILLE, Calif. (CBS) ―
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Phillip Garrido seen during a previous court appearance.
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Jaycee Lee Dugard as she appeared before her kidnapping in 1991.
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Nancy and Phillip Garrido seen after their arrest.
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A brief hearing for a Northern California couple charged with kidnapping and raping Jaycee Lee Dugard has given two others with personal stakes in the case their first glimpses of the defendants in court, CBS station KPIX-TV reports.
Phillip and Nancy Garrido were in El Dorado County Superior Court on Thursday for a pretrial hearing after their lawyers and prosecutors met privately with the judge. They were ordered to return Dec. 11.
Neither Dugard nor any members of her immediate family went to the hearing. But it was attended by the woman Phillip Garrido was convicted of raping and kidnapping in 1976, as well as a Southern California man who said he's Dugard's biological father.
Both said they want to support Dugard and make sure Garrido is convicted.
Katie Callaway was Phillip Garrido's first known victim. She spoke to the media after the hearing.
Garrido raped Callaway after she gave him a ride from a convenience store in Lake Tahoe. She flew from Las Vegas to Placerville to be in the front row of the courtroom when Phillip Garrido walked in Thursday.
"I was the victim who put him in prison," Callaway said Thursday after the hearing. "He looked right at me, and I just wanted to look at him and say 'Look at me. I'm here. I'm not going away this time,'" said Katie.
He went to federal prison for the attack on Callaway, but got out early because of good behavior. She said authorities promised her they'd watch his every move.
She recalls what officers told her at the time, "'He's going to be in a fish bowl the rest of his life, don't worry about it, we've got this'…They didn't," said Callaway.
That failure has led to Phillip Garrido now being charged with raping, impregnating, and holding captive Jaycee Lee Dugard for close to two decades.
"Well, I'm not going to shut up and go away now," said Callaway. "I shouldn't have shut up and gone away 18 years ago. I have to live with the Jaycee Lee Dugard case."
Callaway said she feels some responsibility for what happened to Jaycee.
"I just feel like if I had been a little more proactive; I don't know," she said.
She now says that Jaycee's fight for justice is hers too, because no one knows better than her how justice sometimes isn't so just.
The Garridos both have pleaded not guilty in the case.
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