Garridos plead guilty in Jaycee Dugard kidnapping

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Source: CNN

Los Angeles (CNN) -- Phillip and Nancy Garrido pleaded guilty Thursday to the kidnapping and sexual assault of Jaycee Dugard, whom they held captive from age 11 through 29, the El Dorado County, California, district attorney said.

Both Garridos will receive life in prison at a sentencing hearing scheduled for June 2, District Attorney Vern Pierson said in a statement.

Through a representative, Dugard expressed relief that her abductors "confessed."

"I'm relieved that Phillip and Nancy Garrido have finally acknowledged their guilt and confessed to their crimes against me and my family," Dugard said in a statement released by her representatives at Nancy Seltzer & Associates, Inc., in Los Angeles.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/04/28/california.garridos.guilty.pleas/index.html

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1. "her representatives at Nancy Seltzer & Associates"

Only in America do crime victims take on a talent & publicity agent like Nancy Seltzer & Associates to "represent" them. Geesh.

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2. Considering her life and her story and the state of America today-she's entitled.

To avoid further exploitation.