austria 28 April 2008
I am completely gobsmacked by the emerging story from Austria where it seems a father kept his daughter prisoner in a cellar for over 20 years and did all sorts of terrible things to her. Some of the children she had never saw daylight before this week. It is very hard to get one’s head around. Whatever about the absolutely incredible feat of keeping such an incarceration secret and the rearing of some of the children upstairs with his wife, what I’d like to know is how is it no one else knew there was a basement in this house? and how did he kit it out without anyone at all noticing? Pictures show it had electricity, plumbing, all sorts – how did he get all that in there without detection? Either that man has had the most amazing run of luck (I don’t know what else to call it, but I don’t mean it in any positive way, given the circumstances, I assure you) or else someone else/other people know more than they’re saying.
