Dugard a victim of Stockholm syndrome?

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Source: SF Chron

SACRAMENTO -- Far from being relieved when her alleged kidnapper Phillip Craig Garrido was on the verge of arrest, Jaycee Dugard told authorities he was "a changed man" who was "good with her kids" and angrily asked why she was being questioned, according to a state report released Wednesday.

The report by the state inspector general, largely devoted to spelling out missteps by parole agents assigned to monitor Garrido, shows that after 18 years in captivity, Dugard exhibited indications of Stockholm syndrome - the phenomenon in which some victims come to identify with their captors.

The questioning took place Aug. 26 at a state parole office in Concord, a day after Garrido had aroused UC Berkeley officers' suspicions when he showed up on campus with two girls, ages 15 and 11 - whom authorities now believe he fathered by Dugard.

Dugard, 29, identified herself as Alyssa, the girls' mother, and laughed off a parole agent's comment that she looked too young to have children that old, the report said.

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That poor girl