Man who kidnapped Calif. girl gets life in prison

PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Jaycee Dugard refused to "waste another second" of her life in the presence of the married couple she said stole her life.

She didn't want to be in a northern California courtroom today as 60-year-old Phillip Garrido, the serial sex offender who kidnapped, raped and held her captive for 18 years, was ordered to spend the rest of his life in prison and his wife, Nancy, 55, was given a decades-long sentence.

The feelings the 31-year-old victim had never been able to express while she was held prisoner did make it into court.

"I chose not to be here today because I refuse to waste another second of my life in your presence," Dugard said in a statement read aloud by her mother, the first public comments about her experience since police found her 22 months ago. "As I think of all of those years I am angry because you stole my life and that of my family."

"Everything you have ever done to me has been wrong, and someday I hope you can see that," she wrote, directing her words to Phillip Garrido. "I hated every second of every day of 18 years because of you and the sexual perversion you forced on me."