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DNA confirms identity of kidnapped Austrian girl

All I have to say is... EIGHT FUCKING YEARS!!! She was locked in a tiny room for 8 years... Jesus Christ... I really don't think this girl is ever gonna be able to function in society... She's gonna be traumatized for the rest of her life.

How the fuck can these people live with themselves? :?

Man, she will probably never be right again....Poor girl...

VIENNA, Austria (CNN) -- Austrian police were on Saturday hunting possible accomplices of a kidnapper who held a young girl in a basement "dungeon" and is believed to have sexually assaulted her over an eight-year period until her escape this week.

Natascha Kampusch, who was 10 years old when kidnapped, fled while her abductor made a phone call as she was cleaning his car. Her captor, Wolfgang Priklopil, committed suicide after she escaped on Wednesday.

"We are not chasing a particular suspect but we are chasing the theory that several people were involved," Gerhard Lang, a senior officer at Austria's Federal Police Agency, told Reuters.

Kampusch was abducted while walking to school in Vienna in 1998. A friend said she saw two men pulling her into a white van. This sparked an investigation of almost 1,000 owners of similar vans -- including Priklopil.

Priklopil told police he needed the van for building work at his home in the village of Strasshof, near Vienna. With no criminal record, he was eliminated as a suspect.

One neighbor said Priklopil built the prison where he kept Kampusch under a garage behind his house a long time before he kidnapped her.

"He started building the workshop pit maybe a year or half a year before the kidnapping," the neighbor, who declined to be named, told Reuters. "It really looks like he planned this well in advance."

Family members told CNN Senior International Correspondent Matthew Chance that Kampusch, now 18, was held in "absolutely appalling conditions."

"She was kept in a cramped dungeon built by a suspected pedophile," Chance said.

Photos released by police showed a small, cluttered room with narrow stairs leading to a small entrance. They showed a bed, sink and a toilet, as well as children books.

Family members "do believe that sexual molestation did take place on numerous occasions over several years," Chance said.

"They also say that for several months, if not several years, Natascha was gagged in that cellar so you couldn't scream to alert neighbors."

Chance added: "For most of the time she was held securely under lock and key. But over the years the man who she came to call her master became increasingly careless. And eventually she saw an opportunity to escape."

Family members said Kampusch "was apparently absolutely filthy dirty ... and really smelled," he said.

In remarks broadcast on Austrian television Kampusch's sister said her mother almost had a breakdown when police notified her Wednesday afternoon.

She added that her mother always held onto the hope that her daughter would come back one day. "She always said she was still alive," said the sister, identified by the broadcaster as Sabina Sirny.


A police photo of suspect Wolfgang Priklopil is presented at a news conference in Vienna.Kampusch's father, who split from her mother before the kidnapping, said he was "incredibly relieved" after her shock return. She met her mother on Thursday for the first time since 1998.

Her disappearance on March 2, 1998 triggered a massive, fruitless search that extended into neighboring Hungary.

But on Wednesday afternoon, police said they found the young woman in a yard in a residential area north of Vienna.

"Asked why the woman had not tried to flee until now, BKA investigator Erich Zwettler said she seemed to have had "Stockholm Syndrome," a psychological condition in which captives identify with their captors.

The guy that did it, threw himself in front of a train....Bastard...

But you know he had to have had help and they're still out there probably looking for another girl. People like this are not human in my opinion. How can you treat a young girl like this? You're right that she'll never be completely normal for the rest of her life, most of her formative years were in captivity being used as a sex slave.

QUOTE(AYHJA)The guy that did it, threw himself in front of a train....Bastard...

do we know he was not pushed, perhaps by one of his accomplices hoping to avoid capture due to his errors. Of all the ways to take your own life, in my opinion drowning yourself would be about the only thing worse than dismemberment via train.

This is so sad. She is never gonna be back to normal. Who would do this....I never understand

QUOTE(deepdiver32073)But you know he had to have had help and they're still out there probably looking for another girl.  People like this are not human in my opinion.  How can you treat a young girl like this?  You're right that she'll never be completely normal for the rest of her life, most of her formative years were in captivity being used as a sex slave.

I'm with you, man. If there are others, and there probably are, they need to be caught and strung up! I was absolutely disgusted when I read about this... These guys can't be allowed to kidnap another girl.

Nice update, Buff.

8-year kidnap woman shuns family

You know, I can understand what the parents are going through. Everyone would want to see their daughter... but I really think they need to back off a bit. They need to let her deal...

And the media needs to come up with better fucking titles. "Kidnap woman shuns family." Are you kidding me? :roll: