Jaycee Dugard: Kids Thought She Was Sister

Released today, the children of Jaycee Dugard and convicted pedophile Phillip Garrido have been told that the woman they thought was their older sister is really their mother.

This is what Angel, 11, and Starlit, 15, have faced since the arrest last week of Phillip Garrido, charged with the 1991 abduction of Jaycee Dugard, now 29.

“They thought Jaycee was their sister,” Dugard’s stepfather, Carl Probyn, tells PEOPLE. “People have to realize this will take years of therapy.”

Odds are this will take a life time of therapy.

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