Nancy Garrido Misses "Family," Lawyer Says

(CBS/AP)  The attorney for Nancy Garrido, accused along with her husband of the kidnap and rape of Jaycee Lee Dugard, said she felt that "they'd become a family."

During the 18 years since her abduction at age 11, Dugard gave birth to two daughters by Phillip Garrido and lived with them in a backyard tent complex behind the Garrido's California home. The girls had reportedly been told that Dugard was their sister.

Gilbert Maines, Nancy Garrido's court-appointed attorney, said she missed the girls and "was distraught, frightened, [and] appeared to be a little lost.

"I would describe her like a ship without a rudder," he told "Early Show" co-anchor Harry Smith.

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Ironically, Nancy Garrido once worked at a children's center as part of a child abuse prevention program, reports CBS News correspondent Hattie Kauffman.

She met and married Phillip Garrido while he was in prison, according to Maines. Phillip Garrido was sentenced in 1977 to 50 years in jail for the kidnap of another woman, though he was .

In 1993, Nancy Garrido may have been alone with Dugard for five months while her husband returned to jail for a parole violation

Maines said he's had limited time to talk with Garrido - just an hour and a half in the five days since taking the case - but indicated he may argue that she was just a victim in the ordeal as well.

Maines also said it would likely take "professional help" for him to get Garrido to open up to him so he could formulate a defense strategy.

Karan Walker, a neighbor of the Garrisons, described her encounters with Nancy Garrido to be disturbing, saying she displayed "erratic movements from suspected drug use [along with] poor hygiene," reports Kauffman.

Meanwhile, court documents show Phillip Garrido had blamed drugs for his "downfall" in a plea to reduce his previous kidnap sentence in the 1970s.

Weeks after the sentencing, he wrote a judge asking to have his sentence reduced.

Garrido said in the letter he was "ashamed" and had changed his ways. He also said he finished high school behind bars and was prepared to take college classes at Leavenworth Prison in Kansas.

The letter was among court documents in Garrido's case made public Monday.

The judge turned down his request.

[jazerelle]

Nancy is insane. She has NO claim to Jaycee or the girls. She is NOT their mother. She is a nobody heartless monster. She could not even provide a decent living place for these girls. My dogs have a cleaner area to roam and play than she gave these girls. And then to keep them from others so they don't have a chance to grow. Simply a selfish and heartless monster. Nancy I truly hope you do FEEL THE PAIN if you are even capable of feeling anything real.

[DoubleHappiness88]

Nancy and Phillip Garrido are "deeply" religious.
Like Joseph Smith, the "deeply" religious founder of the Mormon cult, who saw "the revealed word of god" in his hat, the Garridos communicated directly with god by way of a box.Phillip Garrido, like Joseph Smith, could not take his mind or hands off young girls.

One can only hope the Garridos do not found another cult with their "deeply" [snicker] held religious beliefs.

Think of Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, before turning your kids over to priests, preachers and Sunday school teachers. The crimes against Jaycee Lee Dugard and her children are religious crimes, committed in the name of religion and the Garridos are what religion is all about.

Religion poisons everything, especially children.

[formrusmcsgt]

"...she felt that "they'd become a family."
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This woman's looney tunes.

Families don't grow by abducting members.

Sheesh.

[signseeker1717]

sayfud-deen, why do you care if sam-kiley posts in French? Maybe YOU didn't take enough French "in school" to understand him, but some of us did, and his posts are always symphathtic and kindly (in this case, to Jaycee), which is more than I can say for some of your posts. And he certainly writes French better than some posters do in their NATIVE English! C'est suffit pour moi!

[lorjon1]

Poor Poor Nancy! Well, now she might feel 1% of the pain of Jaycee's mother when daughter she gave birth to was snatched away from her one ordinary day at a bus stop and the "loneliness" that SHE endured for 18 years not having her daughter with her. And now finding out little by little the horrors that her daughter had inflicted upon her by Garrido and his "wife".

Nancy Garrido thinks only of herself and her own plight. She is crying now, for sure, crying for HERSELF and "What will happen to me now? I haven't got anybody!" Is she worried about Jacyee and her daughters all of a sudden? Sure she is. That's why she took her that day 18 years ago and went along with all the abuse. And now she misses them!! Don't make me vomit.

[lorjon1]

Poor Poor Nancy! Well, now she might feel 1% of the pain of Jaycee's mother when daughter she gave birth to was snatched away from her one ordinary day at a bus stop and the "loneliness" that SHE endured for 18 years not having her daughter with her. And now finding out little by little the horrors that her daughter had inflicted upon her by Garrido and his "wife".

Nancy Garrido thinks only of herself and her own plight. She is crying now, for sure, crying for HERSELF and "What will happen to me now? I haven't got anybody!" Is she worried about Jacyee and her daughters all of a sudden? Sure she is. That's why she took her that day 18 years ago and went along with all the abuse. And now she misses them!! Don't make me vomit.

[babooph]

When she gets parole,she can steal a new family.

[robinstl]

Well since pathetic, heartless excuse of a woman misses her family so much, FRY her now and send her to hell so that she can meet up with the rest of the devils.. Who cares how she feels and I'm a little annoyed with any defense of these two horrible, dispicable human beings.

[sddemocrat]

I think that the point is that Phillip Garrido should have been monitored closer by his parole officer. As far as I'm concerned, the parole officer failed to do his job to examine Mr. Garrido's residence and lifestyle. Also a police officer that went to the house in 2006 should have done a through search of the house. Being on parole, Mr. Garrido is subject to have his house and property searched at any time day or night. If everything would have fallen into place, Jaycee would have been home to HER family much sooner.

[sddemocrat]

It is in our United States constitution that everyone regardless of what they are charged with gets a fair trial. While there is no proof that Nancy Garrido sexually abused Jaycee, she is an an accomplice of Phillip Garrido. She also enabled her husband to do these things to Jaycee. She said she thought they were all family, who does these things to a family member?? She helped kidnap a child away from her family and now she feels "distraught, frightened and a little lost". She is far from being a victim, but she is an enabler and a kidnapper.