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It’s third sexual assault linked to kidnap suspect since he was charged with Calif. abduction.
Garrido
SAN FRANCISCO — Another allegation of sexual abuse emerged Thursday against kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido, when Antioch police disclosed he was arrested nearly 40 years ago on suspicion of drugging and raping a 14-year-old girl.
Garrido was accused of sexually assaulting the girl at an Antioch motel in April 1972 after giving her barbiturates, Antioch police Lt. Leonard Orman said.
Garrido was set to be prosecuted in the case but the charges were dropped when the girl refused to testify, Orman said.
The girl and a friend met Garrido, then 21, and another man near the public library and joined them in a car, where they were given drugs, he said.
Details on the case were spotty because so much time had passed.
However, authorities recently reinterviewed the girl and were able to piece together that she awoke at the motel and was raped repeatedly before her parents found her, Orman said.
It was the third sexual assault linked to Garrido by authorities. Garrido, 58, and his wife, 54-year-old Nancy Garrido, pleaded not guilty to 29 counts of kidnapping, rape and false imprisonment in the disappearance of Jaycee Dugard 18 years ago.
Police say the Garridos held Dugard captive in a backyard encampment of tents and sheds in Antioch, and Garrido fathered two children with Dugard.