Miss Dugard's step-father Carl Probyn revealed details of the girls, aged 15 and 11, as it emerged that the convicted sex offender had tried to introduce his children into the wider world in the months before his secrets were uncovered.
"They have been so sheltered around him, they were clinging to him. Basically they are upset about this because that's their father and he's in jail," Carl Probyn, who was living with Miss Dugard when she was kidnapped as an 11-year-old in 1991, told ABC.
His former wife Terry Probyn, who has been under guard in a hotel with her daughter, granddaughters and other relatives since their reunion on Wednesday, has been slowly learning the details of the girls' ordeal.
"She had to explain just two days ago she had been kidnapped. [Her daughters] didn't know that," said Mr Probyn.
Mr Garrido, 58, and his wife Nancy, 54, have pleaded not guilty to 29 charges of kidnapping, rape, lewd behaviour with a minor and false imprisonment by violence after Miss Dugard's true identity was revealed during an interview with his parole officer last week. It was the first time the authorities realised that he had children.
Acquaintances said Mr Garrido called the girls Angel and Starlet, and that for the past six months he had taken one or both of them with him when he toured clients of his printing business, either to discuss work or more often to hand out religious fliers, bottles of water and find someone to preach at.
Miss Dugard had also recently taken on a central role in Mr Garrido's printing business, and was seen in the town with him or his wife on several occasions over the past year.
Cheyvonne Molino said Mr Garrido and one of his daughters dropped in every other day for ten or 15 minutes at her husband's car wrecking business.
"The girls were polite, they played with my daughter in my office, sometimes on the internet," she said, adding that their clean appearance betrayed nothing of the squalid conditions they endured in tents and outhouses in the back yard of Mr Garrido's Antioch home.
"They may have been living in substandard conditions, but they did a very good job of hiding it."
Mr Garrido suggested that he should bring both his girls to Mrs Molino's daughter's "Sweet Sixteen" birthday party on Aug15, where there were 150 guests at a water park with a dance floor.
"He picked them up before too long, saying they weren't used to amplified sound. That was kind of kooky, but I just thought 'that's Phil'," she said.
The security officers at the University of California, Berkeley, whose interview with Mr Garrido with the two girls when he sought permission to hold a religious meeting led to his arrest, were disturbed by their robotic answers and vacant expressions.
When asked about a bump over her right eye, the younger child answered with what appeared to be a prepared response that it was a "birth defect".
The eldest seemed to worship Mr Garrido. "He was the Lord in her eyes it seemed; she was just looking at him like he was a superstar," said Ally Jacobs, one of the interviewing officers.
When she asked the girls what they were doing with their father that day. Mr Garrido interrupted, saying "I'm socialising them, showing them how it's done - interacting with people," she said.
He handed the officers a treatise he had written on understanding schizophrenia and about his past sexual behaviour, which he had also given to the Molinos the previous week.
"I am afraid we didn't read it, but I think he wanted people to understand that he was sick," said Mrs Molino. "I think he was beginning to give signals."
Before Mr Garrido's arrest she had found no grounds for doubting his relationship with his daughters. Now she remembers how the eldest was exceedingly obedient and would cling to his arm.
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