Feds called lax in monitoring (Phillip) Garrido on parole

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In more than a decade of supervising paroled rapist Phillip Garrido, the U.S. probation office in San Francisco seldom visited his home, ignored positive drug tests and warnings that he was a "time bomb," and largely left monitoring to his therapist, federal court officials said in a report released Friday.

Although a search of Garrido's Antioch home might not have detected kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard, Garrido's "horrendous acts" might have been prevented "had his federal supervision been conducted properly from the onset," said the report by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

The report also said the San Francisco probation office "had a track record of inadequate supervision" of its cases. The office dismissed its chief in 2007 and overhauled its practices, and has made substantial improvements, the report said.

Garrido was sentenced last month to 431 years in prison for kidnapping Dugard, then 11, in South Lake Tahoe in June 1991 and holding her captive in his backyard for 18 years and sexually abusing her. His wife, Nancy, was sentenced to 36 years to life.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/08/MNF01K8APB.DTL

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1. I thought the FBI left sex criminals to the seven networks - especially MSNBC.