A federal appeals court decided by a 2-1 vote Friday that Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped as a child and held by a parolee for 18 years, cannot hold federal parole officials liable for failing to supervise her abductor. The panel said federal law and its intersection with California law prevented her from being compensated “for the incompetence of the parole office that was supposedly supervising Garrido.“Garrido was on federal parole when he and his wife kidnapped Dugard near her home in South Lake Tahoe. Despite documentation that Garrido became sexually violent when on drugs, a federal parole officer in charge of monitoring his testing failed to report 70 drug-related parole violations, the court said. The majority said state courts have limited the liability of private criminal rehabilitation centers, and that those limitations apply equally to federal parole authorities. Garrido was under federal parole supervision for eight years and under state control as a convicted rapist for 10 years.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 26, 2016 18:24 UTC