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 *THIS STORY IS FOR THE PARENTS OF CHILDREN THAT GO MISSING WITHOUT A TRACE. THIS IS A STORY OF HOPE THAT EVEN THOUGH A QUICK RETURN MAY NOT HAPPEN, IT STILL CAN HAPPEN SO KEEP THE HOPE ALIVE!*
A woman who walked into a US police station
claiming she was kidnapped 18 years ago is likely to be telling the
truth, police in California say.
DNA tests were being carried
out, local police said, with officers almost certain that the results
would back up the woman's story.
Jaycee Lee Dugard disappeared in 1991, aged 11, from outside her Lake Tahoe home, apparently taken by two people.
Two people are now said to have been taken into custody, US reports say.
Police in California are due to hold a news conference later on
Thursday, at which it is widely expected that they will formally
confirm that Ms Dugard is alive and well.
Lt Les Lovell of the
sheriff's department at El Dorado, California, said a woman walked into
a local police station and announced that she was Jaycee Lee Dugard.
"We're
99% sure it's her," Mr Lovell told the Associated Press, adding that
her family had been contacted and a meeting was being arranged.
Ms Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, told ABC News in the US that her family was now convinced that she had been found.
"I had personally given up hope," he said, saying that he just wanted to find the people responsible.
Mr Probyn was watching on 10 June, 1991, as the young girl was apparently taken away by two unidentified people.
The incident occurred as she was walking from her home to a school bus stop in the southern Lake Tahoe town of Meyers.
Her
stepfather has described how a stranger drove up and grabbed Ms Dugard,
bundling her into a grey car even as she tried to resist by kicking and
screaming.
Mr Probyn believed a man and woman were in the
vehicle. Despite several false reports of sightings in the intervening
years, Ms Dugard was never seen again.
But the FBI has now
assured his wife that her daughter is safe and that the men she was
with are in custody, Mr Probyn told ABC News.
"She sounds like she's okay," he said.
"She had a conversation with my wife and she remembers things. I hope she's been well treated this entire 18 years."
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Posted on Thursday, August 27 @ 14:58:59 EDT by Wes |
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