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  • June 2008

    • Dungeon Daughter 'Not Prepared' to Testify

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 25, 08 4:31 AM CDT

      Dungeon Daughter 'Not Prepared' to Testify

      (Newser) - Two months after being rescued from an Austrian cellar where her father imprisoned her as a sex slave for 24 years, Elisabeth Fritzl isn’t emotionally prepared to testify against him, reports the Guardian . Her doctors have postponed the ordeal for at least three weeks. The 42-year-old woman was scheduled to testify next week in a video hearing during which she would have been able to see her father and face questioning by him . More »

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      court  • Josef Fritzl  • incest  • Elisabeth Fritzl  • weird  • captivity

  • May 2008

    • Saddam Feared AIDS During Captivity

      Daily Mail (UK)  |  May 6, 08 12:47 AM CDT

      Saddam Feared AIDS During Captivity

      (Newser) - Saddam Hussein worried about catching AIDS and other venereal diseases during his US captivity, the Daily Mail reports. He even told guards not to dry their clothes on his laundry line. "I explained to them that they are young and they could have young people's diseases," Saddam wrote in prison diaries that were published today by a pan-Arab newspaper. More »

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      Iraq  • prison  • disease  • AIDS  • Saddam Hussein  • captivity

  • April 2008

    • Austrian Incest Father Nabbed Earlier in Sex Crime

      Times (UK)  |  Apr 29, 08 4:45 AM CDT

      Austrian Incest Father Nabbed Earlier in Sex Crime

      (Newser) - An Austrian man accused of imprisoning his daughter as a sex slave in a dungeon for 24 years and fathering her seven children is a convicted sex offender, the London Times reports. No details were immediately available, but neighbors reported avoiding the home of Josef Fritzl, 73, because of rumors he had raped a woman. More »

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      kidnapping  • rape  • sexual abuse  • Austria  • incest  • sexual assault  • captivity

    • Austrian Man Held Daughter Captive 24 Years

      Associated Press  |  Apr 27, 08 2:32 PM CDT

      Austrian Man Held Daughter Captive 24 Years

      (Newser) - A 42-year-old Austrian woman missing since 1984 has been found—in her father’s cellar, where she says he kept her prisoner for 24 years. Elisabeth F. told police her father, Josef F., began sexually abusing her at age 11, and locked her in the cellar when she turned 18,  fathering her 7 children over the next two and a half decades. One child died days after birth because of improper care; Elisabeth says her father burned the corpse. More »

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      kidnapping  • rape  • Austria  • incest  • child rape  • captivity

  • November 2007

    • Panda Couple a Model of Fertility

      Associated Press  |  Nov 26, 07 10:35 AM CST

      Panda Couple a Model of Fertility

      (Newser) - Suggesting that quality does best quantity, two of the most reproductively successful pandas in captivity meet—and mate—but once a year, the AP reveals. Since 2003 the San Diego Zoo's Bai Yun and Gao Gao have produced three cubs, a great feat for the endangered species. The youngest is to be named today, when she reaches 100 days old, following Chinese tradition. More »

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      China  • endangered species  • zoo  • panda  • breeding  • captivity

  • July 2007

    • Hamas Frees Kidnapped Lioness

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jul 10, 07 4:23 AM CDT

      Hamas Frees Kidnapped Lioness

      (Newser) - Hamas soldiers yesterday freed Sabrina the lioness in a raid on a Palestinian crime gang that kidnapped her 20 months ago. The four-month-old cub and a pair of Arabic-speaking parrots were snatched from the Gaza zoo, and Sabrina was left to languish in a dark cell where curious spectators snapped her photo for $1. More »

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      Hamas  • kidnapping  • Palestine  • BBC  • Alan Johnston  • captivity  • lion

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