SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – A California girl  abducted at age 11 in 1991 has been found alive, police said yesterday, adding her kidnapper apparently fathered two children  with her and kept all three living in tents and sheds behind  his house.

Jaycee Dugard had been missing since she was abducted near  her home in South Lake Tahoe, east of San Francisco, on June  10, 1991, by two people in a gray sedan.

“It’s a pretty spectacular story just to find someone like  that. Someone we assumed was dead,” said Bill Clark, the chief  assistant district attorney for El Dorado County, an area east  of Sacramento that stretches into the Sierra Nevada and to  South Lake Tahoe.

Dugard’s alleged kidnapper, Phillip Craig Garrido, 58, a  registered sex offender in California who served time in prison  for rape and kidnapping, and Nancy Garrido, 54, were in custody  after being arrested on Wednesday, police said.

Dugard was healthy, El Dorado Undersheriff Fred Kollar  said, but “living in a backyard the last 18 years must take its  toll,” he added.

“None of the children had ever been to school, none had  been to a doctor, they were kept in complete isolation in this  compound, if you will, at the house,” Kollar said.

Suspicions were first raised after Garrido tried to enter  the University of California at Berkeley campus to pass out  leaflets with his two daughters.

His interaction with the two female minors, aged 11 and 15,  raised suspicion and a police officer looked into his  background.
The next day, during a visit with his parole officer,  Garrido brought his wife, the two minors and a female named  Allissa — who later proved to be Dugard — whom the officer  had never seen before.
The district attorney’s office said it would file charges  by today.

Dugard was walking to a bus stop near her home when the  gray sedan pulled up next to her and she was yanked inside.
Carl Probyn, the girl’s stepfather, told television that  “we both cried for about 10 minutes” after he and her mother  were alerted by authorities that she had been found alive.