Temat: Austrian man locks daughter in cellar for 24 years:
Remember there was also that 18 year old who'd been in an Austrian cellar for 12 years recently. And apparently another such case in Austria, making three.
Do they put something in the water there?
What puzzled me was that when the father/grandfather got three of the kids up from the cellar, he adopted tham, saying his daughter had run off to join a cult. And the social workers didn't make contact with her (even cult members are contactable).
And worse, according to the Austrian police, apparently the granny/stepmother didn't even know her daughter was down there. All that time and only a few yards away. Didn't she wonder about the electricity bill, or what her hubby was up to taking food for three people down? Not to mention the screams of 8 childbirths.
And wosre yet, they didn't live in a house in the woods, they lived in an apartment building.
If anyone on Anglosphere lives in Austria, I suggest checking the basement. Unless they've got someone down there.