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Inside Jaycee's Tent: a Wii, and Squalor

Pics show hints of domesticity amid trash and dirt

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(Newser) – Photos of the backyard and tents where Jaycee Lee Dugard and her children lived reveal a small slice of normalcy amid appalling squalor, CBS News reports. The yard that Dugard’s meticulously dressed girls emerged from is littered with piles of trash and rusting bikes. But inside, where there was electricity, evidence of a computer was found. And among the Danielle Steel romance novels and Christmas decorations there was even a Nintendo Wii game console, People reports.

A source tells People the interiors of the tents held frightening questions. “In one tent there was a mattress against one of the walls,” but another held a “5 or 6 foot high cage with a tennis ball inside it. I don’t know if it was for dogs or people who’d done something wrong.” The source says the loamy earth of the backyard smelled putrid. Click the CBS News link below for the photos.

Three temporary tents are set up next to a shack in the backyard of a home in Antioch, Calif. where authorities say kidnapped victim Jaycee Lee Dugard lived.
Three temporary tents are set up next to a shack in the backyard of a home in Antioch, Calif. where authorities say kidnapped victim Jaycee Lee Dugard lived.   (AP Photo)
A tent is set up the far backyard of a home in Antioch, Calif. where authorities say kidnapped victim Jaycee Lee Dugard lived.
A tent is set up the far backyard of a home in Antioch, Calif. where authorities say kidnapped victim Jaycee Lee Dugard lived.   (AP Photo)
A child's tricycle is shown at the home in Antioch, Calif. where authorities say kidnapped victim Jaycee Lee Dugard lived.
A child's tricycle is shown at the home in Antioch, Calif. where authorities say kidnapped victim Jaycee Lee Dugard lived.   (AP Photo)
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jagerhans
Sep 2, 09 1:21 PM CDT
AFTER ALL THIS heard and seen i swear i won't complain anymore about us italians passing our time snooping around the neighbors. it is annoying being forced to know everything about everybody but at least here loathsome criminals like Garrido don't have one chance to stay undisturbed for decades. unless of course they aren't friends of berlusconi. Reply
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stacysaw
Sep 2, 09 1:34 PM CDT
keeping snooping, and everybody needs to keep on reporting things that don't look right.maybe you're wrong, but maybe you aren't...
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Mad
Sep 2, 09 2:33 PM CDT
Oh, man. "Keep snooping"? There are over 100 million households in America, this ass represents 0.00000001%. Way to stay paranoid
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IndependentThinker
Sep 2, 09 2:40 PM CDT
Very Gestapo sounding to me. "Spy on your neighbor they may be the enemy". That is a good way to cause lots of trouble for millions of good Americans and a couple hundred bad ones.
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stacysaw
Sep 2, 09 1:22 PM CDT
"The only place where there was any order at all was the clothing racks. Otherwise everything was piled up like a dump." see? as long as kids are dressed ok and have clean faces and hands when they go out in public you can do anything you damn well please to them at home. s**t is wrong, man. Reply
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