Phillip and Nancy Garrido pleaded guilty to charges of sexual assault and kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard.  The kidnapping received national coverage after Dugard was abducted from outside her Lake Tahoe home in 1991, at the age of 11.  Dugard was found by authorities in 2009.

Kidnapping is codified under California Penal Code Section 207.  It reads in pertinent part “every person who forcibly, or by any other means of instilling fear, steals or takes, or holds, detains, or arrests any person in this state, and carries the person into another country, state, or county, or into another part of the same county, is guilty of kidnapping.”

Dugard was held captive by the couple in a hidden compound on their home grounds in Antioch California.  Both Phillip and Nancy Garrido will are set for sentencing on June 2.  It is expected that both will receive life sentences for their crimes.

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