Claim: Garrido Offered Kidnapping Prevention Tips [View All]

Sep 2, 2009 10:40 pm US/Pacific
Claim: Garrido Offered Kidnapping Prevention Tips

ANTIOCH, Calif. (CBS13) ― In a chilling and ironic revelation, a longtime child safety advocate and former client of Phillip Garrido's printing business said that the man accused of kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard and holding her hostage for 18 years used to give her tips on child abduction prevention.

Janice Gomes said she has known and worked with Phillip Garrido for 15 years, and was sickened to discover that he was accused of holding Jaycee Dugard in his Antioch backyard for nearly two decades.

Missing kids and child safety is Janice Gomes' passion, and she often turned to Garrido to print documents for children safety. Once she hired Garrido to print a tip sheet for families to prevent kidnapping.

Gomes said that Garrido had some extra advice.

"He said, 'Children really shouldn't be walking to the bus stop by themselves. Children are no match for adults,'" Gomes said.

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