Jaycee Dugard was taken from a bus stop 32 years ago. Now she's raising her kidnapper's daughters.

Jaycee Dugard was 11 years old when she walked to the school bus stop on the morning of July 10, 1991.

It was the typical path she would always take - from her house in South Lake Tahoe, California, to the corner of Pioneer Trail and Washoan Boulevard. 

But that morning was different. 

After reaching the road, Jaycee noticed a grey car pull up in front of her.

A man rolled down the windows and pulled out a taser gun, sending Jaycee to the ground. 

"My whole body [was] tingly, I don't know what [it was] from," she later told ABC News.

The man was sex-offender Phillip Garrido, who was riding in the car with his wife Nancy. 

Phillip had just served 11 years of a 50-year sentence prison sentence before being released on parole three years earlier.

After falling to the ground, Jaycee later regained consciousness in the car. 

"I heard the driver say I can't belive we got away with it and they started laughing," she recalled. 

Phillip and Nancy drove the 11-year-old to their house in Antioch, over 200km away from her mum, step-dad and baby sister.

From the outside, it appeared to be a seemingly normal blue house.

But in the backyard laid a number of sheds and tents - hidden structures that would be Jaycee's home for the next 18 years. 

Phillip and Nancy Garrido. Image: El Dorado County Sheriff/Getty.

During her time in captivity, Jaycee was subjected to unimaginable horrors, repeatedly raped by Phillip. 

The now 72-year-old would dress her up, slather her face in makeup, and mould her to fit his perverted fantasies.

In Jaycee's memoir Freedom: A Book of Firsts she recalled one night when tears stained her rouged cheeks.

"I told him I felt ugly," she wrote, as per People. 

"I remember he looked at me and said, 'You look beautiful. Here, I will show you. Look into the mirror.'"

"Well, I looked. I don't doubt that he thought I was pretty that night," she continues.

"His creation. The girl he took from the bus stop. A girl he controlled and could be anything he wanted… all I saw was a very frightened girl who I didn't even recognise with mascara running down her cheeks and the saddest face I had ever glimpsed staring back at me."

Three years after being kidnapped, Jaycee gave birth a baby girl, fathered by her kidnapper, at the age of 14.

"I can't fathom how I kept it together or, you know, I must've been checked out, you know, on a different level," she told ABC News. 

"[I was] present, but not present for, you know, some of it, because it's terrifying on its own. But being alone, how did I even do that?" 

Years later she gave birth to her second daughter at the age of 17.

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How Jaycee Dugard was found.

Jaycee's nightmare would eventually come to an end in August 2009 after Phillip attended the University of California with his two daughters, aged 11 and 15, looking for an event permit to distribute religious flyers.

While he was there, the university's special events manager became suspicious of Phillip and later asked a cop to run a background check on him.

Campus police then contacted Phillip's parole officer, who explained Phillip "doesn't have any daughters", as per People.

On Wednesday, August 26, Phillip brought Jaycee, whom he called Allisa, and their daughters into the parole officer's office where he admitted to kidnapping Jaycee.

Phillip was arrested and Nancy was taken into custody soon after.

Jacyee was later given the change reunite with her mother in a hotel room, 18 years after she disappeared. 

"They opened the double doors, and Jaycee went walking through," former police chaplain Tim Grayson told The Denver Post.

"We heard the shout of her mother, 'My baby!' and then her arms were open. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house."

Phillip eventually pleaded guilty to one count of kidnapping and 13 counts of sexual assault and was sentenced to 431 years in prison, while Nancy was sentenced to 36 years to life in prison.

Jaycee Dugard's life now.

Since being found, Jaycee tries not to hold on to any anger towards her kidnappers. 

"I don't feel like I have this rage inside of me that's building," she told ABC News in 2011. "I refuse to let him have that."

However, her mother told the outlet she holds "enough hate" for both of them. 

"I hate that he took her life away, I hate that he stole her from me, he ripped out a piece of my heart, and he stole my baby."

Image: ABC. 

As for Jaycee's daughter, she said she would not prevent them from seeing their father in prison, if they wanted to. 

"I want them to make their own choices in life, and if that's something that they need to do, then you know I'd ... I wouldn't be OK with it. But I wouldn't not let them do it."

In Freedom: A Book of Firsts, the second of Jaycee's two memoirs, the now 43-year-old wrote that her daughters are her constant source of inspiration.

"My daughters are both so important to me, and I am so proud of who they are growing up to be." 

"I'm so excited for them and so proud of all the challenges they have overcome."

Feature Image: Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times/Getty.