Jaycee, Elisabeth, Natascha, the women the world forgot...

For 18 years Jaycee Lee Dugard lived mostly under canvas. Like campers everywhere she saw the sun come up through the folds of her tent, heard the birds, the hum of traffic, the screech of the local cats, perhaps smelt cooking from houses close by, and then watched the sun disappear beyond the fence that set the boundaries of her home. 

The photographs of Ms Dugard’s backyard jail may spin the illusion that her imprisonment, though dreadful, was better than the lot of the entombed Austrians — the schoolgirl Natascha Kampusch (who freed herself in 2006 after eight years underground) and Elisabeth Fritzl, held in a dungeon for almost a quarter of a century. But the tent-world of Ms Dugard may have been an even greater mental torture than that faced by the Austrian cellar children. More...

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