Jaycee Lee Dugard was only 11 when she was snatched off the street in El Dorado County. For the next 18 years, she was confined in a shed or a tent.

She never went to school. She never saw a doctor. She never got a first date or went to a prom, and she bathed in a makeshift, outdoor shower in an Antioch backyard.

Her closest human contact, police say, was with the 58-year-old convicted rapist who they allege kidnapped her, then impregnated her twice starting when she was 14.

Last seen as a little fifth-grader in a windbreaker and pink stretch pants, she was reunited on Thursday with her joyful mother. Now 29, she is in good health, police say, except for the horror of what she has endured.

"Living in a backyard for 18 years does take its toll," El Dorado County Undersheriff Fred Kollar said.

Authorities say she was taken by an Antioch couple, Phillip Craig Garrido and his wife, Nancy. They are scheduled to be arraigned at 1 p.m. today in El Dorado Superior Court in Placerville for rape, kidnapping, conspiracy and other charges. Both are being held in lieu of $1 million bail.

They allegedly kept her in isolation in their backyard without detection, despite the fact that Garrido is on lifetime parole for kidnapping and rape and subject to home visits by a state parole agent.

No one knew she or her daughters – now 11 and 15 – were there until this week.

Campus cop became wary

The break in the case began Tuesday when a police officer at University of California, Berkeley, became suspicious.

Authorities said the officer spotted Garrido with two children on campus, where Garrido apparently had gone to distribute religious-themed literature, a frequent hobby of his.

Upon questioning, she discovered Garrido was a parolee and contacted his parole agent in Concord. That agent summoned Garrido to his office on Wednesday, where he arrived in the company of his wife, two girls and a woman identified as "Allissa."

After some questioning, the agent became concerned.

"The parole agent had never seen these individuals, Allissa and the two young children, during his visits to the house and thought that the females in Garrido's company were suspicious and contacted the Concord Police Department," Kollar said.

When police arrived, the women were separated from Garrido. He eventually confessed to having kidnapped Dugard, police said, and in separate questioning "Allissa" confirmed that she was, in fact, the girl kidnapped from Meyers in 1991.

The couple were booked into the El Dorado County jail Thursday on rape, kidnapping, conspiracy and other charges and each was being held in lieu of $1 million bail.

Dugard had not surfaced since the abduction, despite all the fliers distributed over the years and despite the fact that a drawing of a suspect seen driving away with the girl is a close likeness to Garrido's wife, Nancy.

The day she was taken, Dugard set off from her home in Meyers to walk to her school bus stop. Each morning, she would check the clock on the microwave at 8:05 a.m., then head off.

On that day, as her stepfather, Carl Probyn, watched from the house, a car made a sudden U-turn and cut the girl off. Someone reached out and dragged her inside as she screamed.

Then she was gone.

'He had no parole violations'

The day of the abduction, Phillip Garrido was on parole, subject to stop by any law officer and to searches and surprise visits at his home.

He had been convicted of federal and Nevada state charges in connection with a Nov. 22, 1976, incident when he was 25 and kidnapped a woman from the Tahoe basin, drove her to a warehouse in Reno and sexually assaulted her. His attorney blamed the crime on Garrido's five-year abuse of the hallucinogenic drug, LSD, according to Bee archives.

Garrido was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison and five years to life in Nevada prisons. But, after stints in federal prisons in Leavenworth, Kan., and Lompoc, as well as a Nevada state prison, he was released on lifetime parole in 1988.

Call The Bee's Sam Stanton, (916) 321-1091. Bee staff writers Denny Walsh and Phillip Reese and researchers Pete Basofin and Sheila A. Kern contributed to this report.