Austrian had seven children by daughter locked in cellar for 24 years

Monday 28th April, 06:17 AM JST

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skipthesong at 11:40 AM JST - 28th April

this is so chilling.
Zaphod at 11:43 AM JST - 28th April

Hollywood could not make this up.
DenshaDeGO at 05:09 PM JST - 28th April

Yuck- knocking-up your own daughter. What a freak.
frontandcentre at 07:25 PM JST - 28th April

Zaphod - horrific as this appears to be, unfortunately Hollywood DOES make stuff like this up
redacted at 07:37 PM JST - 28th April

Alpine cretinism in Europe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretinism
cwhite at 08:53 PM JST - 28th April

and I thought the 9 years kidnapping incident in Japan was horrific. I guess humans are capable of breaking records in both good and bad. Looks like this will become yet another case study for the would be psychologists.
usaexpat at 11:05 PM JST - 28th April

Wow seriously sick stuff. How does this woman go on to lead any kind of normal life?
serendipity628 at 01:37 AM JST - 29th April

Also creates an absolute family tree nightmare.

The father of her kids is also the grandfather of her kids...

But her kids are also almost her own siblings...

Very yucky stuff.
zaichik at 02:22 AM JST - 29th April

Alpine cretinism in Europe

What does hypothyroidism resulting from iodine deficiency have to do with this case, redacted?

Dreadful case, though - even worse than the other girl in Austria (Natascha Kampusch?) and the lass in Kashiwazaki.
Everton2 at 05:03 AM JST - 29th April

This is the stuff of science fiction, only in Europe or a theater near you
Zaphod at 11:10 AM JST - 29th April

usaexpet:

" Wow seriously sick stuff. How does this woman go on to lead any kind of normal life? "

She doesn´t. And even more horrific are the fates of her two older children. Born in that dungeon and spent the first 18/19 years of their life their... they don´t even remember normal human interaction, never having had any. Horrible. The 5-year old should be OK.
frontandcentre at 12:40 PM JST - 30th April

redacted - presumably you haven't seen "Deliverance"...

Unfortunately for the victims, this man appears to have been very much in control of himself and his actions, not mentally deficient in any way. I just hope that all the children can re-adjust. Natasha K should give them hope from that point of view
frontandcentre at 02:16 PM JST - 30th April

redacted - what does "Alpine Cretinism" have to do with this case, as zaichik rightly pointed out? The answer is absolutely nothing - you are simply trying to smear Europeans. Look at the recent disgusting behaviour in Texas before you start criticising other countries, let alone whole continents...
redacted at 02:32 PM JST - 30th April

"redacted - what does "Alpine Cretinism" have to do with this case, as zaichik rightly pointed out?"

Again, read the article, compare with other sources and consider - -

"AMSTETTEN, Austria (CNN) -- 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, police in Austria have confirmed..."

"...Dickens had been overwhelmed, much earlier in the century, by Guggenbuhl's ability to transform sufferers from sporadic cretinism',stunted withered skeletons' deemed to be idiots, into children heading `rapidly towards perfect development'. (3) To do this he simply moved them from the deep shadow of alpine valleys into the sunlight at the summit of the Abendberg, and in so doing recognized the significance of environment to the ability of a child to grow."

http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-1562484/From-stunted-child-to-new.html
frontandcentre at 04:51 PM JST - 30th April

redacted, you do have a very odd way of looking at the world.