US kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard has said her life was stolen when she was abducted by Phillip and Nancy Garrido at the age of 11, and she hated every second of her 18 years in captivity.
She made her first public statement, read in court by her mother, as the Californian couple awaited sentencing.
In April they pleaded guilty to charges of kidnap and rape, and face life imprisonment.
Phillip Garrido had two children with his victim.
Ms Dugard was kept with her two daughters, now 13 and 16, in the backyard of the Garrido home in Antioch, California, in a compound of tents and sheds.
Phillip Garrido could be sentenced to 430 years in prison while Nancy Garrido faces 36 years.
Their guilty plea meant that Ms Dugard did not have to appear in court.
As part of the deal the Garridos made with prosecutors, both waived their right to appeal.
Police mistakes
Ms Dugard is due to have a memoir published next month.
Police in California came under fire after Ms Dugard’s discovery and freedom in 2009 because Phillip Garrido had a previous conviction for rape, involving an abduction, and was on the sex offenders’ list.
Ms Dugard was freed after police officers at the University of California at Berkeley saw Garrido on the campus with her and her children and became suspicious.
They contacted Garrido’s parole officer and he was detained at a parole hearing.
Ms Dugard has received a $20m (£12m) settlement from the state of California, which has acknowledged repeated mistakes in the monitoring of Phillip Garrido.
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