Garrido Victim: Scathing Report On-Target

Woman He Went to Prison for Raping Years Before Allegedly Abducting Jaycee Dugard Says She Warned Officials He Was Dangerous

(CBS)  Phillip Garrido abducted and raped Katie Callaway 33 years ago, when she was 25. Garrido was caught, convicted and sentenced to 50 years behind bars, but released after only 11.

He's accused, along with his wife, of kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard three years later, when she was just 11, holding her hostage in the backyard of their Northern California home and repeatedly raping Jaycee for 18 years. She was found alive this summer and reunited with her family.

Since then, says CBS News Correspondent Bill Whitaker, outraged Californians have been asking how it could have been possible for Garrido to have hidden Dugard that long.

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A sharply critical report released Wednesday by state officials outlines what Whitaker calls "massive missteps and missed opportunities by the Department of Corrections that prolonged Jaycee's imprisonment: failure to adequately supervise Garrido, failure to talk to neighbors, and even failure to properly train parole officers."

"We determined that Garrido was only properly supervised 12 out of the 123 months it supervised him, a failure rate of 90 percent," says David Shaw, the California Inspector General, who vowed reform.

Callaway, now Katie Callaway Hall, says, "To say (parole authorities) dropped the ball is an understatement, as far as I'm concerned."

But Callaway Hall told substitute "Early Show" co-anchor Debbye Turner Bell there's plenty of blame to go around.

"There were so many mistakes made all throughout the years," Callaway hall says. "I understand we're talking California Parole Board right now, but he's been on parole for almost 21 years. And that first ten, 11 years he was on parole, when he got Jaycee, where were those people? They should be held accountable, too."

After Garrido was released from prison in 1988, he was placed under federal supervision until 1999, when California took over.

So, says Callaway Hall, "the federal parole board that he was under the jurisdiction of for the first 11 years" is also at fault. I mean, it was three years after he was paroled that he (allegedly) got Jaycee. Those are the people that I talked to, and I told them he was dangerous. I just don't understand" why the warnings weren't heeded.

She also says it was purely by chance that Jaycee was found, when Garrido brought her two daughters, whom he allegedly fathered, to the University of California, Berkeley, to hand out religious literature. He aroused the suspicions of two quick-thinking police employees, who did a background check, beginning a string of events that led to Jaycee.

"I hear a lot of change is going to be taking place," Callaway Hall noted. "I hear them saying that the net was closing in on him. But I really doubt if that man hadn't walked into that office with those girls, with Jaycee and her girls, they'd still be in his backyard."

Callaway Hall called for reform, saying, "I hear that there's a lot of good things from the works. ... There definitely has to be a better system of risk assessment (Garrido was initially classified as a low-risk ex-convict), and there just has to be a lot of common sense involved in this job. There has to be accountability for what has happened, as well."

[citykitty02]

The system failed Jaycee, as well as many others. It also reflects the deteriorating infrastructure of the state of Calfornia, which for the last 15 years or so has been in legislative gridlock. This is no excuse for happened to Jaycee. Callaway Hall somehow transcended her own personal nightmare to act with poise and dedication in attempting to right a system that has been broken for far too long. I just hope the public and the lawmakers are listening!

[citykitty02]

Robert makes some valid points. I'm pretty certain California, and maybe Texas, have the highest incarceration rates in the nation, along with some antiquated draconian drug laws. In a weird way, people like Garrido can easily work such a sprawling, haphazard, ineffective system to their own advantage.

[Robert_340]

I agree that the criminal system is broken. We've taken a hard stance on petty charges while neglecting the true dangers of society. Marihuana possession, DUI's etc. etc. There are so many in the prison system that could best serve sentences with community work hours, fines, mandatory drug and alcohol rehab and so on. If you worked everyday then had to go to rehab counseling for 2 hours every night there would be little time to do anything else. Coupled with mandatory drug testing, well you get the picture.

Our prison system is overwhelmed with non-dangerous, non-repetitive offenders at an astronomical cost to tax payers. Our prisons and parole officers should be focused on dangerous criminals who pose a significant threat to society. This individual should have never been released after such a short sentence and should have been on intensive probation thereafter. When placed on intensive probation, the probation officers have the right to come to the residence at 3:00 am if necessary, enter and search without a warrant including on the spot revocation of probation (arrest without warrant)if a violation has occurred.

This is a disaster, never should have happened.

[mtcolquitt]

Law ENFORCEMENT is a joke nowadays. No money to house or supervise these sicko's. Something MUST be done. It will only get much worse. Be ready!!!

[bobkat258]

I agree candide08.

When will the justice system realize that sexual predators are predators FOR LIFE. They are probably not receiving any treatment in prison anyway. So why do we keep releasing them back into society and expect that they will suddenly stop. THEY WON'T.

Castration may be the only way.

[hockeymom441]

Our government stinks!

It's sad that CA is broke and they don't even have anything to show for it in this case! Another example of over-paid gov't funded workers punching their cards, but not doing a good job.

[candide08]

The U.S.A. simply has too many people in jail. There are too many to supervise. Our prisons are producing more hardened criminals, not keeping them away from society.

We have 5% of the worlds population and 25% of its prisoners.
That is why people like Garrido walk and people on small drug possession offenses get 10 years - and do it.