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ISSN 1172-4153 | Volume 2 | Issue 44 |
| 28 August 2009
By Sam Stanton, Bill Lindelof and Phillip Reese McClatchy Newspapers
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18 years as a rapist’s prisoner: mum of 2 SACRAMENTO, Calif. - She was only 11 when they took her in 1991, a 4-foot, 6-inch fifth-grader walking to school in a pink windbreaker and pink stretch pants. For 18 years, police say, a convicted rapist and his wife kept Jaycee Lee Dugard hidden in their Antioch, Calif., backyard, living in a tent or shed away from the legions of law officers searching for her. Over the years, authorities say, her abductor - Phillip Craig Garrido, 58 - impregnated her twice and she gave birth to two girls, now 15 and 11. This is the horrifying ordeal law enforcement officials described today after revealing that Dugard, now 29, had been found safe after all these years and reunited with her mother this morning. “She was in good health, but living in a backyard for 18 years does take its toll,”said El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar. The apparent end to a case that sparked national headlines began with a suspicious campus police officer at University of California Berkeley on Wednesday. Authorities said the officer spotted Garrido with two young children on campus, where Garrido apparently had gone to distribute religiousthemed literature, a frequent hobby of his. Upon questioning, the officer discovered Garrido was a parolee and contacted his parole agent. That agent summoned him to his office yesterday, where Garrido arrived in the company of his wife, two small children and a female adult identified as“Allissa.” After some questioning, authorities said, Garrido confessed to kidnapping Dugard. In a separate room, Dugard told authorities that she was, in fact, the little girl kidnapped from Meyers, Calif., in 1991. She had not been seen since, despite all the fliers
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Get ready for the big one Wellington, Aug 28 NZPA - The 5.2 earthquake that woke many Wellington residents overnight should jolt people into preparing for a large scale disaster, the Wellington City Council says. The tremor hit the capital at 2.10am, centred 20km south of Wellington and 30km deep. The quake was a“big jolt”which should be enough to remind Wellingtonians sooner or later a full-scale emergency would hit the city, council emergency preparedness manager Fred Mecoy said. The quake was centred underwater in the Cook Strait, which
also served as a reminder that people on the coastline were at risk of being overwhelmed by a quake-generated tsunami, he said. They would only have a few minutes to get to higher ground and should plan how they would do that, Mr Mecoy said. “In the middle of the night, it’s far better after a quake to be up the hill wishing you were still in bed, than in bed, wishing you were up the hill...” People should also have a well-stocked emergency kit, including working torches, a supply of batteries, water, food and other necessities of life.
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Swine flu vaccine for NZ delayed Wellington, Aug 28 NZPA - The arrival of a swine flu vaccination in New Zealand has been delayed by a month. The 300,000 doses of a vaccine from Baxter Healthcare, ordered by the Government, were expected to be delivered by early August. However, the company told the Ministry of Health the first shipment would not arrive in New Zealand until early next month, deputy director
of public health Darren Hunt said in a statement today. The Government had an option arrangement with Australian pharmaceutical company CSL for their vaccine, but had not yet considered whether it was necessary to purchase it, he said. Both vaccines would undergo clinical trials and would only be used once licensed by Medsafe, Dr Hunt said.
The required two doses of the Baxter vaccine, which had been expected to be licensed in December, was initially to be offered to frontline health staff and emergency personnel. Dr Hunt said today if a vaccination campaign were to proceed, frontline health workers would likely begin to be vaccinated early in 2010. Late next month the World Health Organisation (WHO) would consider whether to include the swine
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flu strain in next year’s seasonal flu vaccine for the southern hemisphere. The ministry would take this into considerations, Dr Hunt said. In New Zealand 16 people have died from swine flu and the coroner is investigating other deaths. There are 3127 confirmed cases, but the actual Continued on P2