By James Desborough and Guy Basnett, 29/08/2009
THIS is the foul compound of horror where kidnapped Jaycee Lee Dugard was kept as a sex slave for 18 years by the pervert known to local youngsters as Creepy Phil.
The filthy, ramshackle secret garden, hidden inside evil Phillip Garrido's California backyard, is where the beast raped innocent schoolgirl Jaycee, then twice forced her to give birth amid the sickening squalor. She was just 14 when she had the first of his two daughters, now 11 and 15.
Jaycee - snatched from a bus stop by Garrido, 58, when she was just 11 - had to raise her undercover family amid this makeshift home of sheds and tents, surrounded by rubbish - topped off with a chilling sign bidding Welcome.
And today the News of the World can sensationally reveal how Garrido:
* TOOK the illicit daughters he'd brainwashed to be little "robots" outside their prison to attend a birthday party.
* GAVE other guests the shivers with his weird behaviour.
* INVITED his hosts back to dinner at the house of horror.
* PLAYED God in his secret personal church in the basement.
* ABDUCTED Jaycee to use as a baby machine because wife Nancy, 54, was infertile.
The shocking details of the perverted family life that went on at the house in the small town of Antioch, east of San Francisco, emerged as the Garridos were held for trial after denying 29 charges of abduction, imprisonment and rape - and 29-year-old Jaycee was reunited with her shocked family.
Our harrowing pictures, taken on Friday, show graphically how victim Jaycee and her daughters lived destitute in a maze of interlinked shacks and tents hidden from view by overgrown trees, 8ft fencing and tarpaulins.
The entire area is strewn with their sad array of worn and broken toys and possessions, vying for space with piles of the Garridos' dumped household junk including discarded cans of chemicals. Power is supplied by two green extension cables running from the house.
Eerily hung in the branches above the main tent and below the Welcome sign are star and butterfly cut-outs with a set of wind chimes. But they bring no joy.
Ominously some of the sheds are soundproofed and can only be opened from the outside.
A source who toured the Walnut Tree Avenue compound told us: "Most frightening are the bloodstains which are everywhere on carpets, tent walls and in clothing.
"It's extremely disturbing trying to fathom out what went on in that dreadful place and how human beings could do such things.
"How the children didn't die of diseases or suffer long-term medical problems is a miracle. Their home was a tip with no hygiene at all." One of the biggest bloodstains is in what appears to be the children's main tent, which is kept a bit tidier than the rest. The soiled area is approximately two feet square and surrounded by red stained tissues. Smashed crockery is close by.
The tent is sandwiched between metal animal cages and unstable wooden huts. Some of the tent walls are damaged and have been patched up with tape.
A drawing desk supports a box packed with what appears to be photos and a drawing book.
The kids' clothes rails are neatly but tightly packed with shabby, odd-coloured garments. Nearby is a rare sign of an attempt at decoration - a sad bunch of flowers stuffed in a soft drink bottle.
In a corner is a pile of cat magazines on top, next to what appears to be kitty litter. Animal lover Jaycee was pictured before her rescue in a top with a cat motif (below right) and her feline ornaments are all over the place.
Close to a single bed is a framed photo-montage of monster Garrido posing on holiday, singing and wielding a guitar in an all white outfit .
On a dusty wooden top Jaycee has built a makeshift dressing table with make-up palettes of eye shadow, blusher and lipgloss, along with a mirror and hairbrush.
In another outhouse is a filthy fish tank, its glass sides obscured by dirt, with the pump buzzing away and three goldfish swimming around.
It's difficult to work out who slept where as there are mattreses and sofa beds abandoned all over the place. In one tent, amid a pile of clothing on the filthy pink carpet, lies a small purple heart-shaped cushion, bearing the words "Kiss Me".
Next to it is an opened box of $14.99 lice treatment and a green children's handwriting practice book.
Among another bundle of clothing four naked Barbie dolls are scattered next to a pink plastic Barbie carry-case.
In a corner of the compound a six-feet high tent entrance is blocked by dumped boxes. It appears to be a play zone for the kids with more Barbie dolls, headless this time, with piles of cushions spilled on the floor beside a battered Monopoly game. One side of the tent is emblazoned with paint handprints of the children.
Another room houses a random collection of Garrido's reading material, dumped on his victims. There's a Harry Potter, cartoon books, a volume titled Think Yourself Thin and ironically a parenting manual called Self Esteem: A Family Affair. Sandwiched in between the paperbacks are belly dance and drumming videos. Elsewhere there was a CD version of the Bible.
It's not clear where and how the captives cooked and ate. But an office style shack with wall to wall shelves houses two microwaves. Aside from a Tupperware box of cereal no other food is visible,
Most chilling of all is a 6ft tall by 8ft deep metal cage. One can only shudder at what it might have been used for.
US reports claimed that Garrido kept the kids locked away all the time in this horrific environment.
But we can reveal that recently the paedophile had started to risk taking them out in public.
Just days ago he took them to a Sweet Sixteenth birthday party for the daughter of business contact Cheyvonne Molino, where their subdued, zombie-like behaviour raised eyebrows.
Shocked Cheyvonne told us yesterday: "I had no idea he was a sex offender. I've known him through his printing business for ten years and never thought he was capable of this.
"When he asked if he could bring his kids to the party I didn't see any harm in it. But they never left his side. They were always looking to him for approval - as if they weren't allowed to answer until he said they could.
"They were dressed kind of old-fashioned, with little handbags.
"I think they were under instructions not to speak to anyone, or touch anything without permission.
"It was a birthday party and Garrido wouldn't even let them have their photos taken. He was adamant about that. They didn't dance or really look very comfortable.
But Cheyvonne said she did have a chat with the girls, with permission, and glean a little about their bizarre home life.
"They never spoke of their mother," she said. "But they told me that they had a church in their basement and that there were only five members.
"They said they were schooled at home but never watched TV. They didn't stay long, maybe an hour. They said to me, 'This is the first time we've been to something like this.' I guessed they meant a party with other children."
But not long into the party Garrido suddenly whisked his two youngsters away. Cheyvonne told us: "He said that the music and all the voices were getting too much for them and that they weren't used to it all.
"It was as if it suddenly started scaring them. He insisted they leave.
"But afterwards he kept calling, insisting we go over for dinner at his house. He wanted to repay us for inviting him to the party. But we never went. I just don't understand why he'd want us there when all of this was happening in his backyard."
Cheyvonne described Garrido as eccentric and said he used to carry a machine around on which he claimed he could hear people's thoughts. "But he never seemed like a bad man," she added.
Children in the neighbouring homes knew better. A boy whose home backed on to the Garrido compound said: "We all called him Creepy Phil. He was just weird.
"He just seemed like an oddball. He carried this strange machine around with him and we kept our distance."
Another neighbour, 35-year-old Haydee Perry, was also worried after he noticed Garrido's younger girl appeared desperately nervous. Garrido was helping Haydee start her car in late July and that situation was enough to make the youngster cling to his side. Haydee said: "She stayed close to him at all times. It wasn't normal.
"She had a blank stare. Now it seems like it might have been a cry for help."
Cops who finally rescued Jaycee and her girls also described the girls as acting like "robots". And police last night revealed pervert Garrido first hatched his plan to kidnap little Jaycee Lee Dugard to give his infertile wife a child.
A source close to the investigation told us that Nancy - who met Garrido during a prison visit while he was serving time for the brutal 1976 kidnap and rape of Katherine Calloway - was unable to have children of her own and dreamed of making her sicko husband a dad.
Our source explained: "Nancy tried to get pregnant for years, and when it didn't happen she was devastated.
"Garrido also had some deranged idea that he was meant to be a father, and they decided that if they couldn't have a child naturally they would acquire one, which is what led them to abduct little Jaycee off the street near her home in Lake Tahoe."
The couple's twisted fantasies were fired up even more when Jaycee was raped and made pregnant by her captor at the tender age of just 14.
The source said: "You'd think any woman would be devastated to learn her husband was having sex with someone else, let alone knowing he was clearly a paedophile. But Nancy started to view Jaycee as some kind of vessel to help her get the family she longed for."
