Celebrated kidnap victim to pen tell-all book

May 10, 2011, 1:49 GMT

Los Angeles - Jaycee Dugard is to pen a tell-all memoir of her 18 years spent captive in a secret tent camp, where she was repeatedly raped and forced to bear two children for her kidnapper, her publisher said Monday.

Dugard, 31, was snatched from a California street when she was just 11 years old and was only discovered 18 years later when a campus police officer became suspicious of her kidnapper, Phillip Garrido in 2009. Garrido and his wife Nancy both pleaded guilty to kidnapping and sexual assault charges last month and are expected to be sentenced to life terms on June 2.

Dugard will tell the 'full story of her ordeal' in the book, to be called A Stolen Life, that is set for release on July 12, publisher Simon & Schuster said in a statement. 'In her stark, compelling narrative, she opens up about what she experienced, including how she feels now since she was found.'

Dugard, who now lives in a secret location with her two daughters and other family has already received 20 million dollars compensation from the state of California, whose legal officers failed to properly check Garrido despite him being on probation for the abduction and rape of a woman in the 1970s.

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