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Since 1998 a 10 year old austrian girl, Natascha Kampusch, was missing in Austria. Two days ago she returned with a most horrifying story. She was kidnapped and held captive for eight and a half years by a man, locked up in a little room in the basement of a house. The man kept her locked up, fed her, clothed her, and took care of her. It is not yet confirmed if the girl had been sexually abused by the kidnapper.
The kidnapper gave her books and newspapers to read for her education, allowed her to watch tv and gave her access to a pc.
By mere chance the now 18 year old young woman managed to escape two days ago. She was ordered by her kidnapper to vacuum-clean his car. Apparently the vacuum-cleaner produced so much noise, that the kidnapper stepped a few meters away because he was on the telephone. Natasha Kampusch used this opportunity to run out of the compound, and quickly headed for a neighboring house, where she called for help. The neighbors quickly called the police.
Words cannot express the joyous moment when Natasha, after eight and a half years, united again with her parents. According to one newspaper report, both parents and daughter were embracing each other, deeply weeping for a very long time.
In the meanwhile, the kidnapper, seeing that he had been busted, fled with his car, and later committed suicide by jumping into a moving train.
I believe that you all will agree with me, that this most wicked, evil and abominable behaviour of the kidnapper fully justifies the existence of the lake of fire where wicked people like that kidnapper will be tortured eternally for their evil crimes. Read more herePosts: 19 | From: Germany | Registered: Aug 2006
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That was commendable but that girl will never be the same in her life. The death and absence of her captor boaders irresponsibily in her every day life style, she has craved the science of psychiatry. She may forgive but she will never forget. Let's hope for the best.
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IT apears the girl thinks of her captor differently from what initial reports tend to portray.What ever the situation he still remains a captor anyway unless proven that she consented to staying with him from the word go or that she willingly followed him home and choose to stay with him. even then the nature of their relationship leaves a big Q on this guy. did he exploit her sexually? if not just what was his interest,i mean what kind of ANIMAL is he to deprive a 10yrs old girl access to her parents for 8 years! wonders shall never end.
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No picture of Natascha Kampusch aged 18 has been released An Austrian teenager recovering after spending eight years in an underground cell is grieving for her captor. Natascha Kampusch, 18, said Wolfgang Priklopil was "part of my life, that's why in a certain way I'm mourning him".
He killed himself by jumping in front of a train after her escape last week. It is still unclear why he abducted her as she was on her way to school.
"Give me time until I can tell my story myself," Ms Kampusch said in a statement read by her psychiatrist.
She said she understood the media "curiosity" about her life with the kidnapper, but insisted that she would not answer intimate questions.
She said she and Priklopil had eaten meals and watched television together, and had jointly done the housework.
What 'dungeon' looked like What next for Natascha?
Priklopil "was not my lord, although he wanted to be - I was just as strong", she added.
She is at a secure location with psychological carers, and police say she has not asked to see her parents again after a brief reunion.
In her statement on Monday, she said she realised "how shocking and worrying" her experience must seem to people.
But she said she did not feel that Priklopil had robbed her of her childhood.
Together they had furnished her room "adequately" soon after he had abducted her, Ms Kampusch said.
She is reported to have wept inconsolably when she was told the man she had to call "master" was dead.
Mother frustrated
Police suspect she may have been suffering from "Stockholm Syndrome" - a condition where some abductees gradually begin to sympathise with their captors.
Her parents, who separated after her abduction, have complained that they have not been told where she is staying.
Her mother Brigitta Sirny has pleaded to be allowed to see her. She asked in a newspaper interview on Sunday: "Why can I not see my child?"
Wolfgang Priklopil was a 44-year-old telecoms technician
Austrian police officer Gerhard Lang said the police were not banning contact with Ms Kampusch.
He said she had voluntarily gone to a "safe place" to receive psychological care and protection.
Ms Kampusch, said to be pale and to weigh less than she did as a 10-year-old, managed to flee her abductor on Wednesday after he moved away to take a phone call as she vacuumed his car, it has emerged.
Priklopil threw himself under a train within hours of her escape.
Photos released by police show the underground hiding place in his house, in Strasshof village outside Vienna, where he had purportedly kept her.
The pictures show a small, cluttered, windowless room with wash basin, toilet, bed and cupboards and narrow concrete stairs leading up to a trapdoor. -----------------------------------------------
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Yesterday, Wednesday the 7th 2006 at 9:15 pm GMT, Natascha Kampusch was interviewed by the Austrian National TV ORF2. The viewer saw a very beautiful young woman who is very articulate, intelligent, and possesses a sense of humour.
Natascha Kampusch is a daughter of the Austrian soil, and thus the rich and the influential of Austria have already donated large sums of money and property to Natascha directly, thus making her a wealthy young woman, which enables her to live an independent life. She has received, amongst others, a pension for life from one of Austria's largest newspaper firm, she has received a plot of land near one of Austria's most beautiful rivers, and the donations are coming in more and more by the hour.
In the interview, Natascha announced that she will use the money also for charity, e.g. she has plans to open a charity organization, which caters for kidnapped and missing people.
While I watched the 45 minute interview, like so many other millions of people worldwide, I was deeply touched by the wisdom of Natascha, who revealed in the interview that she made a pact with herself :
"I swore to myself that I would get older, stronger and more powerful so that one day I could free myself. I made a pact with my later self that I would free that little 12-year-old girl."...- Natascha Kampusch
This pact kept her alive and thus just two weeks ago at age 18, she finally managed to escape into freedom.
Natascha's story is one of those stories which Hollywood directors love to convert into movies, thus it won't be a surpise if in the next couple of years a motion picture about Natascha will be in the theatres.
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