- Phillip Garrido, who is accused of kidnapping and raping an 11-year-old and then holding her captive for 18 years, apologized in a jailhouse letter sent to a television station, the California station said Thursday.

In the handwritten letter this week to CNN affiliate KCRA, Garrido seemed to address the kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard.

“First off I want to apologize to every human being for what has taken place,” KCRA said the letter states.

The second sentence of the letter appeared to refer to what Garrido has described as a religious transformation that cured him of his sexual deviancy.

It says: “People all over the world are hearing testimony that through the spirit of Christ a mental process took place ending a sexual problem believed to be impossible.”

The letter, which is the third sent to the station, also addressed other issues, but the station declined to release more details.

“We are not releasing the entire letter at this time based on consultations with our attorneys,” said Anzio Williams, news director at KCRA. “We will tell the story and reference the letter.”

Garrido and his wife, Nancy, face multiple felony charges in the 1991 kidnapping of Dugard from South Lake Tahoe, California.

Authorities say he and his wife held Dugard in a hidden compound behind their home in Antioch, California, for 18 years. The Garridos have pleaded not guilty.

Dugard now lives in seclusion with her mother, Terry Probyn, and Dugard’s two daughters, who police say were fathered by Garrido.

In September, an attorney for Dugard’s family said it had been a difficult transition for her and her daughters, who are now 11 and 15, given that her captivity spanned more than half her life and was the only world she knew for so long.

“But there is no question that she knows that terrible and wrong things were done to her and that those people must be held accountable,” McGregor Scott said.

Dugard will testify against the Garridos, Scott said. He also acknowledged that Dugard would have to relive the trauma in court by sharing the “very, very sordid tale.”