Daughter Kept in Cellar 24 Yrs

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  1. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    Is there something about Austria that I don't know about? Or is it just so startling because they were kept in cellars, while here in the US, they probably would have been killed.


    An Austrian man allegedly held his daughter captive in a cellar for 24 years and fathered four children with her, reports say.

    The existence of the woman, believed missing since 1984 and now 42, emerged after one of the children was found in the house in a "serious condition".

    A search was begun by the authorities for her mother after she was found, Austrian broadcaster ORF reports.

    The 19-year-old is now in hospital in the Lower Austrian town of Amstetten.

    An investigation has been launched, a police source told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

    ORF identified the father as a 73-year-old man and said the teenager had been found unconscious in his house.

    The discovery of another Austrian woman, who was held captive in a cellar by an abductor for more than eight years, gripped the country in 2006.

    Natascha Kampusch finally escaped from her kidnapper, 44-year-old Wolfgang Priklopil, who killed himself shortly afterwards.

    Ms Kampusch was abducted at the age of 10 in 1998 and held in a small, windowless cellar beneath Priklopil's garage in the commuter town of Strasshof, 25km (15 miles) outside Vienna.
     
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  3. USS Exeter unamerican american Registered Senior Member

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    How could they be in there that long and not just kill themselves?
     
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  5. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Ain't the world a lovely place.. ?

    What did you mean by "Or is it just so startling because they were kept in cellars, while here in the US, they probably would have been killed." ?
     
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  7. Syzygys As a mother, I am telling you Valued Senior Member

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    Only in Austria. This is the 3rd same type of case in recent years.

    If I remember well, an infamous dude was also from Austria, but he becamse famous in Germany....
     
  8. Mr.Spock Back from the dead Valued Senior Member

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    horrifying.
     
  9. USS Exeter unamerican american Registered Senior Member

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    I think I saw a Law and Order episode similar to that situation.
     
  10. Reiku Banned Banned

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    What is this world coming to?
     
  11. Reiku Banned Banned

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    Or, what has it came to, more to the point.
     
  12. madanthonywayne Morning in America Registered Senior Member

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    24 Year Incest Victim found in Basement

    This is a horrible story. This poor girl thought to have run away has actually been locked in the basement since 1984! She has given birth to 7 children by her father in that period of time.

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  13. Asguard Kiss my dark side Valued Senior Member

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    yes i herd that on the news, its an apaling story. Wonder how he will like a 6x6 cell for the next 25-50 years (i hope he gets AT least 2 for every one she was locked away)
     
  14. Asguard Kiss my dark side Valued Senior Member

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    MOD HAT: There is a duplicate thread to this one in EM&J so i will be moving this to there and asking tiassa to merge the two
     
  15. Asguard Kiss my dark side Valued Senior Member

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    yea i sent that one to Ethics as well so these could be merged
     
  16. draqon Banned Banned

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    thing is...at his age...he already had his "fun" so even if the jail him...he will die soon anyways
     
  17. draqon Banned Banned

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    Actually I know that in Austria and Switzerland they lure in Russian women and do the same locking up deal...
     
  18. Bells Staff Member

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    There are no words to bring justice to this story. Horrible and awful just does not cut it.

    To be honest, I cannot even wrap my mind around what this man has done. It is surreal... Locking up his own daughter in the basement, installing a sophisticated hidden entry system, fathering 7 children with her, burning the child who died at birth, keeping three children hidden in the basement, the eldest for 19 years, the youngest, for 5 years.. those children have never seen sunlight.. This doesn't happen in real life. This is the stuff of horror movies. Dean Koontz would have had a field day with a plot line like this. But this isn't fiction. It is all together real and that is what gets me. How can no one have known? How can the mother not have suspected something.

    It is all just so elaborate. How could his wife not have known? Not have had some inkling? How did he get away with all of this?

    How could the mother not have suspected that something was not quite right? Did she question why he was installing that kind of hardware in their basement?

    As I said, there are no words that can do justice to what that poor woman and her children were made to endure during that time.
     
  19. draqon Banned Banned

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    geeese Bells...to you everything is surreal. Wait till you see war, than everything will be flowers and real.
     
  20. Challenger78 Valued Senior Member

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    Goddamn. The world is an ugly place full of fear and hatred. The only peace is on our selves.
     
  21. draqon Banned Banned

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    yeah well once you realize that we are this world and there is no true peace...were will you hide than?
     
  22. Captain Kremmen All aboard, me Hearties! Valued Senior Member

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    Will he get all his child benefit backdated though?
     
  23. Bells Staff Member

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    No. Not everything is surreal. But this is. So many things do not add up in this story.
     

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