Jaycee Dugard new photo

Jaycee Dugard's new photo has been released as handout to Reuters on October 14, 2009. PEOPLE magazine revealed the new cover for its October 26, 2009 edition featuring a photograph of a beaming Jaycee Dugard. This image of the 29-year-old Dugard is the first to be released to the public since she was was freed after spending the past 18 years in captivity and reunited with her family. Check out Jaycee Dugard's new photo below.

Jaycee Duggard daughters photos

As spectators continue to monitor the story of Jaycee, the search for Jaycee Duggard daughters' photos is rising. But of course, the children's human rights demand that their privacy be preserved so as to let them have a normal life as they go on.

But according to Cheyvonne Molino, a business associate of the Garridos interviewed by CBS on The Early Show, she met Garridos' daughters and had watched them grow up.

Molino said the young girls always appeared and behaved like normal kids and that the day the photo was shot, Garrido left the girls unattended at the party. "He dropped them off. He picked them up," she said.

The girls did not attempt to flee. And despite earlier reports, Molino said that in her presence the girls never acted robotically and didn't wear prairie dresses.

Being "normal" can be perceived differently by different kinds of people depending on their backgrounds and personal convictions. A normal thing for a certain person may not looked normal for others. So what Molino had said during her interview sparked a lot of negative comments from people who had developed concern for Jaycee's children.

As for me, the children had only acted in the way they were told. If Phillip Garrido had told them to behave, I think they would follow that. For children like them who had been detached from reality, what they see, feel, and hear, they believed it to be true.

Jaycee Lee Duggard today

God really provided a way for Jaycee Lee Duggard to be found after 18 years of abduction. Here's the story before her appearance at the police station:

Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard lived nearly two decades as a prisoner in the secluded backyard on an Antioch home, raising two children by her alleged abductor with little to no outside contact, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Deparment.

At a Placerville news conference Thursday, El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said even though the 11-year-old girl abducted in 1991 lived in a makeshift set of sheds and tents for 18 years with her daughters, the now 29-year-old Jaycee was in surprisingly good shape after her identity was discovered Wednesday.

"Living in a backyard for 18 years does take its toll, but she was in good health," Kollar said. "Jaycee has been there ever since. The children were born there."

Kollar said Jaycee's 15-year-old and 11-year-old daughters were fathered by her captor, Phillip Garrido. Garrido, 58, and his wife Nancy Garrido, 54, were arrested for investigation of kidnapping and conspiracy Wednesday.

"He fathered both children with Jaycee," Kollar said.

Formal criminal complaints against the Garridos were expected to be filed in El Dorado County Superior Court by noon Friday, according to El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson.

Kollar said the break in the 18-year search for the missing South Lake Tahoe girl began Tuesday when Garrido, accompanied by Jaycee's two daughters, attempted to hand out religious literature on the UC Berkeley campus.

The interaction between Garrido and the two girls prompted the attention of a UC Berkeley police officer, who ran a background check on Garrido.

When it was discovered that Garrido was on parole following a 1971 conviction for rape and kidnapping, Kollar said officers alerted the state parole office.

The call led to Garrido's visit to his Concord parole officer's office, Kollar said. Along with Garrido was his wife Nancy, the two girls and a young woman Garrido called Allissa.

Kollar said the parole officer had never seen "Allissa" or the two girls during any home visits to Garrido's Antioch home. That suspicion prompted a call to Concord Police. From there, detectives unraveled Garrido's house of cards -- and it wasn't long before it seemed clear that Allissa was actually Jaycee Dugard.

"The diligent questioning and follow-up by the parolee's agent of record led to Garrido revealing his kidnapping of the adult female," the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement Thursday.

"Without (parole) assistance, we probably never would have found this out," Kollar said.

Some have asked why did Jaycee never attempted or rather never had the chance to escape from her abductors for so long?

Well, as we all know that she was very very young then, she might have been brainwashed by the Garridos with their "strange" religious beliefs. Religion vitally affects a person's personal convictions. Thanks to the keen observations of UC Berkeley police officer, Jaycee Lee Duggard today is with her family.

Philip Garrido | Nancy Garrido

Photo from msnbc.msn.com

Above is an undated photo of Phillip Garrido (58) and his wife Nancy Garrido (54), whom were the alleged kidnappers of Jaycee Lee Duggard (now 29). Police said that Phillip Garrido was a convicted sex offender. Both were arrested on August 26, 2009.

The question that lingers on my mind is, "Why did Nancy Garrido conspired with Phillip Garrido in the abduction of Jaycee Lee Duggard"? For 18 years, she connived with her husband's criminal act. For what purpose? I think that will be a mystery until the victim tells her story.

Jaycee Lee Dugard

Jaycee Lee Dugard was reported missing for 18 years after she was kidnapped when she was 11 years old on June 10, 1991. She was last seen on that day by her stepfather Carl Probyn outside her home in South lake Tahoe being kidnapped by two occupants in a car.

Jaycee Lee Dugard, now 29, appeared at a police station in Concord, California on Wednesday and identified herself as the missing woman, police officials said.

At a press conference, the El Dorado Sherif's Department said conversations with the woman confirmed that she was Dugard, who was kidnapped at age 11.

Subsequent interviews provided information that only the victim and the kidnappers could know," said Fred Kollar from the department.

Police officials identified a couple taken into custody in connection with Dugard's kidnap as Phillip and Nancy Garrido.

What happened to Jaycee Lee Dugard was an example of a perfect kidnapping because it took 18 years before she was seen again. I guess her own story of how she was abducted, what was her life by then until her appearance at the police station revealing her identity, will be worth watching.