The first details have emerged of how the Dugard family is faring since the release of Jaycee Lee, who was abducted¹ and held for 18 years in California.

幼年时期在加利福尼亚被拐骗并拘禁达18年之久的Jaycee Lee被解救之后，Jaycee所属Dugard家庭的详细资料第一次公布。

Tina Dugard says the two young girls are educated and bright

Aunt Tina Dugard told the Orange County Register there was a lot of laughing, crying, holding hands and reconnecting.

She said Jaycee Lee's two girls "know what's going on" but had not been allowed to watch coverage² of the case.

The girls' alleged³ father, Phillip Garrido, and his wife have been accused of kidnapping Jaycee Lee in 1991.

On Thursday, police also released details about a previous case involving Garrido. They said he was arrested in 1972 on suspicion of raping⁴ a 14-year-old girl but the charges were dropped when she refused to testify.

'On the internet'

The reunion of Jaycee Lee with her mother, Terry Probyn, took place in an undisclosed（未泄露的） location in northern California with law enforcement officials and counsellors nearby.

Tina Dugard, who spent five days with the family, told the Orange County Register there was a "sense of comfort and optimism, a sense of happiness".

She added: "People probably want to think that it's been this horrible, scary thing for all of us... [but] the horrible, scary thing happened 18 years ago, and continued to happen for the last 18 years. The darkness and despair [has lifted.]"

Recalling the reunion, Tina Dugard said Jaycee Lee and the girls first met Ms Probyn in a room.

Ms Dugard said it was then her turn, and she and Jaycee Lee recognised each other instantly.

Ms Dugard also said the two children, aged⁵ 11 and 15, were "educated and bright".

"It's clear they've been on the internet and know a lot of things. It's clear that Jaycee did a great job with the limited resources she had and her limited education."

She said of Jaycee Lee: "She's fabulous⁶（传说的，难以置信的）, and she's beautiful."

Tina Dugard later appeared before reporters at the FBI's Los Angeles office.

There she said gave more details of the reunion.

"The smile on my sister's face was as wide as the sea," Ms Dugard said.

"This is a joyful⁷ time for my family. Not only have we laughed and cried together, but we've spent time sitting quietly, taking pleasure in each other's company.

"Jaycee remembers all of us. She is especially enjoying getting to know her little sister who was just a baby when Jaycee was taken."

A spokesman for the family said there would be no further comment on the rehabilitation⁸（复原） for the moment.

'Drugged'

Jaycee Lee Dugard was 11 when she was snatched（夺取） outside her home in South Lake Tahoe, California, in 1991.

She was allegedly kept as a prisoner for 18 years in a secret compound of tents and sheds behind the Garrido home in Antioch, east of San Francisco.

Her identity was only discovered last week, after Garrido was ordered to a parole meeting by police officers.

He had been noticed acting⁹ suspiciously with the two girls as he tried to enter the University of California, Berkeley, campus to hand out religious literature.

In releasing details of the 1972 case, police in Antioch said the 14-year-old girl and a friend had met Garrido, then 21, and another man near an unspecified library.

Antioch police Lt Leonard Orman said the 14-year-old girl was drugged and raped¹⁰ in a hotel.

Lt Orman said Garrido was to be prosecuted¹¹ but the girl would not testify.

When asked whether other victims might come to light, Lt Orman said there was a "good chance".