I was shocked to hear of yet another appalling crime involving imprisonment and abuse from a person you are supposed to trust and respect. It mirrors the news of young Austrian girl Natascha Kampusch who spent eight years locked up in a windowless cell before escaping in August 2006.

The 42-year-old Austrian woman, told police that her father Josef Fritzel had lured her into the windowless basement of the block where they lived in the town of Amstetten in 1984, and drugged and handcuffed her before imprisoning her for 24 years, and fathering seven of his daughter’s children, all unbeknown by his wife, who had believed her daughter had ran away  from home to a new life. Three of the children were locked up since birth in the basement of the drab, building along with their mother and had never seen sunlight or received any education police have said.

The case only unfolded when a 19-year-old girl, the oldest of the three, became seriously ill and was hospitalised,where doctors then appealed for the girl’s mother, who was believed to have disappeared, to come forward to provide more details about her medical history.Josef then brought Elisabeth and her remaining two children out of the basement, telling his wife that their "missing" daughter had chosen to return home, police said.

What is this world coming to, how many more people are hidden away in secret chambers for another persons amusement, sadly for 24 years this woman had lived in that situation and if it hadn’t been for her daughter requiring hospital treatment it is highly unlikely that anyone would have known she existed, it also seems ironic that in both cases of Natascha and this latest victim are Austrian.

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