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Shadow of Fritzl falls over Austria again

YET another “captive child” horror story is shaking Austrian society.

This time it apparently took 41 years for the nation to discover that an 80-year-old man had imprisoned, raped and beaten his two mentally disabled daughters throughout their lives.

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