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SACRAMENTO (CBS13/AP) ― Corrections officials failed to properly supervise parolee Phillip Garrido and missed opportunities to discover the girl he allegedly kidnapped and held in his backyard for 18 years, a report summary released Wednesday said.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation also failed to refer Garrido for a mental health assessment, according to the report by the state Inspector General's Office.

The summary said Garrido "committed numerous parole violations and that the department failed to properly supervise Garrido and missed numerous opportunities to discover his victims."

The department also failed to train parole agents to conduct parolee home visits, failed to properly supervise parole agents responsible for Garrido and failed to adequately classify Garrido, the summary said.

It did not delve into the details of the findings and did not explain how agents failed to supervise him. The office released the summary on its Web site and planned an afternoon news conference to release the full document.

The two-month inquiry was launched after Garrido and his wife were arrested for allegedly kidnapping Jaycee Dugard and holding her captive in his backyard.

Questions arose about how Garrido managed to keep Dugard hidden for so long despite being monitored by parole officers because of a previous rape conviction.

The office has said its report would include recommendations for improving parolee supervision statewide.

Garrido, 58, was under federal parole supervision and required to register as a sex offender when he and his wife, Nancy Garrido, allegedly snatched Dugard outside her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991. Phillip Garrido had been convicted in 1977 for kidnapping and raping a 25-year-old woman.

California took over Garrido's supervision in 1999.

As a parolee, Garrido wore a GPS-linked ankle bracelet that tracked his every movement, met with his parole agent several times each month and was subject to routine surprise home visits and random drug and alcohol tests, according to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Still, the backyard encampment where Garrido allegedly hid and raped Dugard went unnoticed by authorities. Police say Garrido fathered Dugard's two daughters, now 15 and 11, who were born in the ramshackle tent compound.

The report lists at least four 'missed opportunities' to discover Jaycee Lee Dugard and her daughters including "failing to investigate clearly visible utility wires" running from Garrido's house towards the concealed compound in the backyard. The report says also says agents failed to investigate teh presence of a 12-year-old during one home visit, did not talk to neighbors about Garrido and did not act on information "clearly showing Garrido had violated his parole terms".

The Garridos have pleaded not guilty to 29 counts related to Dugard's abduction, rape and imprisonment. 

El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson who is prosecuting the Garrido's released a statement saying the report is a critical first step to identify the problems with supervising dangerous sexual offenders on parole and making changes needed to make sure it does not happen again. 

But Pierson says the report fails to address the key question of "why a dangerous sexual predator like Phillip Garrido was released after serving only eleven years of a fifty year federal sentence and a five-to-life Nevada State sentence."   

Dugard, 29, was reunited with her family in August, and is living with her daughters and mother in an undisclosed location in Northern California.

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