Austrian Girl Escaped After Held Captive for Eight Years


An Austrian girl - Natascha Kampusch has ended her long eight years of captive while she was vacuuming her captor's car. She was 10 years old when she was aducted while she was on the way to school. Experts said she had developed the "Stockholm syndrome" after long years of captive.

Reuters via Yahoo!7News

What's the "Stockholm Syndrome"?

In Wikipedia, it means "a psychological response sometimes seen in a hostage, in which the hostage exhibits loyalty to the hostage-taker, in spite of the danger (or at least risk) in which the hostage has been placed."

She must be grateful that she's still alive now if compared to the other kidnap victims. Let's look at these selected previous child kidnappin' cases that had gripped the nation.


The LindBerge Kidnappin' - kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. in 1932, the son of Charles Lindbergh, who was the most celebrated aviator of the age & Anne Lindberg, the daughter of a wealthy diplomat- Biography Channel.





The Lost of Rilya Wilson - the dissapearence that once stirred the state of Florida- WorldNetDaily.

Also in BellaOnline.

No comments: