Filed under: Europe — Michael van der Galien, Editor-in-Chief on April 27, 2008 @ 6:27 pm CEST
Via NOS Journaal comes a horrific story: a 70 year old man has been arrested in Austria. Police suspect he raped his daughter constantly, and kept her locked in his basement for 24 years. No one had seen his daughter since 1984. Not only did he rape his daughter, and did he lock her up in his basement, he also made her pregnant seven times. One of the children died soon after birth, three others were raised reasonably normal, and the three other children were kept in the basement with their mother.
The man from Amstetten told the police back in 1984 that she had given the three children to him, after which she had disappeared.
The case came to light last week, when one of the children who were locked up in the basement with their mother - a 19 year old girl - was brought to the hospital unconscious. Because doctors didn’t know what was wrong with her, they asked the mother, via the media, to step forward.
Police looked for themselves as well, and found the woman in the basement of her father. They didn’t investigate the basement yet because they fear the place has been booby trapped by the 70 year old monster.
The father has been arrested, but refuses to answer any questions directed to him.
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