Girl escapes after being held in cellar for 8 years

by lmurch | August 24, 2006 at 10:15 am
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Stockholm Syndrome, a psychological response in a hostage situation

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An Austrian girl who was kidnapped and held in a garage dungeon for eight years was forced to call her kidnapper "master" and only started to be allowed into the fresh air this year, police have revealed.

Wolfgang Priklopil, 44, a freelance communications technician, who committed suicide yesterday, snatched 10-year-old Natascha Kampusch on March 2, 1998, while she was walking to school in Vienna, Austria.

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