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'House of Horror children never saw daylight'AMSTETTEN, Austria (CNN) -- Police in Austria have confirmed that three children freed from a cellar in which their mother had been imprisoned and raped by her own father for 24 years had never seen daylight. Austrian police spokesman Franz Polzer told CNN that the 73-year-old man, known as Mr. F., admitted holding his daughter, Elisabeth F., 42, hostage in the windowless cell and fathering seven children by her.
"The mother had memories [of the outside world] and got used to the situation," Polzer told a press conference Monday afternoon. "The others knew nothing else."
Elisabeth F. told police that she and her three children Kerstin, 19; Stefan, 18; and Felix, 5, did not see the light of day during their entire time in captivity underneath the building in Amstetten, a rural town about 150 km (93 miles) west of Vienna.
Elisabeth F. is described as "very disturbed" and having trouble talking to police about her ordeal, reports CNN correspondent Fred Pleitgen. She went missing in 1984, when she was 18 years old, police have said.
Last time we were plastered all over CNN and the like a girl (who's become an absolute media whore by now, sporting her own TV show) who was kidnapped at age 10 and held captive for 8 years managed to escape the dungeon she was imprisoned in. Just a few days ago more details surfaced on that case, things everyone suspected more or less, A) she was sexually abused after all (this was denied earlier) B) her tormentor likely had helpers.
But back to this horrfic case - what enrages me most about it is the fact that kidnapper's wife and neighbors claim not to have noticed
anything. Kinda strange, I imagine the guy's wife would start asking questions after some time, questions like "Where's our daughter" and "Hey hun, where do all those children come from?". Goddamn, this is a sick, sick world.
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