CELLAR AGONY.CELLAR girl Natascha Kampusch Natascha Kampusch (born 1988 in Vienna) is an Austrian teenager who was abducted at the age of 10 on 2 March 1998, and remained in custody of her kidnapper, Wolfgang Priklopil, for more than eight years, until she escaped on 23 August 2006. has had a breakdown after experts said she was "better off" as a paedophile's prisoner than at home. Kampusch, 21, was snatched as a 10-year-old and held by pervert Wolfgang Priklopil in a suburb of Vienna, Austria. She escaped in 2006 when he was distracted by a phonecall. Chief investigator Ludwig Adamovich said: "Her imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. might have been better for her than what she experienced before - especially as her mother did not treat her very carefully." It has been claimed Kampusch's mother set up the kidnapping to cover up sex abuse at home. |
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