children imprisoned at home by mother for 7 years

[disciple]

A row has erupted in Austria over three girls who were kept cut off from the outside world by their mother for seven years, Austrian media report.

After the mother's separation from her husband the girls were reportedly kept in darkness at the family home and lived amid human filth.

Authorities in Poestlingberg near Linz removed the girls from the house and placed them in care in October 2005.

Details of the case only emerged in the Austrian media at the weekend.

The case has drawn comparisons with the case of Natascha Kampusch, a girl who was kept hostage in a basement for eight years in a quiet Austrian suburb.
According to Ms Tews, the authorities should have acted in 2001 when the mother - a lawyer - was treated in a Linz clinic for hallucinations and delusions.

The girls' father had also been pressing for visiting rights, but the mother had refused to let him see the girls, Ms Tews said.

Austria's Der Kurier news website reports that the girls had developed their own language and played with mice, isolated in the filthy house. Their isolation had begun when they were aged six, 10 and 13.

Their mother - who is now in custody - had kept the curtains permanently drawn, unscrewed the light bulbs and shunned all social contact, the paper said.

The girls are now undergoing psychotherapy in a clinic near Klagenfurt, while their mother faces prosecution for wilful neglect and grievous bodily harm, Der Kurier reports.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6353533.stm
man.. that's F'd up...

[W1nTry]

See my post on what to do with child predators... parent or not this woman needs to be shot, hung, quartered and dismembered... *sighs* WHY PPL WHY???

[Heady]

thats kinda harsh the woman have some mental problems.

[Saxito Pau]

"Mental Problems?"

WDMC you studying de MOTHER??

So what happen to the kids?? (Lemme guess: criminals have rights too, right?" Oh well such is society...)

I back W1ntry on that one.... subject that to 1 year o non-stop Barney and Teletubbies while getting a serious 6 times a day dose of "rehabilitative chemo-therapy" .... if she have "mental problems"