Natascha Kampusch
This is a story in the current news about a woman who was kidnapped.
- She was kidnapped off the street at the age of 10
- She was held hostage in a cellar
- When she hit puberty at the age of 12, her kidnapper (Priklopil) started to be physically, sexually and verbally abusive towards her.
- At the age of 12 he started to take her upstairs and make her clean the house.
- Priklopil didn't like it when Natascha cried, he would either cuddle her and try to make her stop crying whilst telling her how sorry he was, or he attempted to drown her, but not completely, so she was nearly unconscious.
- At the age of 14 she was made to sleep in his bed but not for a sexual reason, for the fact that he wanted someone to cuddle when he went to sleep.
- At the age of 15 she realised that Priklopil had a 1950's view of things and he believed that he should have a young housewife.
- He used to tell Natascha how fat and disgusting she was and she believed this was because he was anorexic and trying to push his anorexia on her.
- It was shortly after this that he cut the amount of food she was allowed to eat and she became drastically skinny, with her bones protruding through her skin.
- Priklopil was very paranoid about the police being able to track Natascha down by them finding one of her hairs, so he made her wear a plastic bag on her head until eventually she got her head shaved every time she was allowed upstairs to wash.
- After she became very skinny he forced her to work in the house half naked, and in the garden naked, knowing that she would never try to escape if she was naked and covered in bruises.
- He often held her outside the front door when she was naked and told her to try and run away, he didn't care that people may be able to see him because he knew that she would never run away without any clothes on
- To punish her he re-opened healing wounds
- After 2 years of being imprisoned she started to fight back but he was a lot bigger and stronger than her.
- She kept notebooks of the type of things that happened to her
- He had an intercom in her cellar
- She tried to kill herself when she was 14 by strangling herself with clothes
- At 15 she tried to slit her wrists with a large sewing needle.
- She also tried to kill herself by filling her lungs with smoke
- He occasionally took her out
- She was allowed to listen to the radio where she heard her name mentioned by the author of a missing persons book.
- Priklopil killed himself on the day that Natascha escaped
- She owns the house she was kept captive in
- She can see it from other peoples view and she shudders at the thought of what happened to her but it was her home for 8 years and she became used to that.
- She built an emotional relationship with him
- When she died she had to grieve for him because she felt she had lost someone close to her.
- She has a more acute awareness than women of her age
- She is lacking in aspects of her social skills
- She finds it hard to get close to people and from relationships with potential boyfriends. When she was locked in the cellar she craved human contact but now that she is out she is afraid of it.
- Her father was an alcoholic and her parents had marriage problems.
- She as given literature in the cellar but has no knoledge of fashion or how young women her age should behave.
- 'You have to remember my mother lost her daughter. She had a child. She lost that child. She got the child back, but it was no longer a child, no longer someone she knew.'
- The chief police officer working on the case shot himself when people were challenging the police force for not doing enough to find Natascha.
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