A man who imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven children by her started planning to build a dungeon beneath his house when she was just 12 years old, it has emerged.
Everything was new and it was clear they were amazed. The only idea they had of the real world was what they'd seen on television.
The incestuous father who kept his daughter locked in a cellar for 24 years was a "broken old man", according to a journalist who met him before the horrifying discovery.
FRANKFURT — Austrian police arrested a 73-year-old man who they say kept his daughter locked in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, three of whom never emerged into daylight from their prison until now.
A man locked away 26 years for murder was granted a new trial and freed on bond Friday with the help of two attorneys who came forward with a client's confession after he died in prison.
PARIS — In the capital of high fashion and ultrathin models, conservative French legislators adopted a pioneering law on Tuesday aimed at stifling a proliferation of Web sites that promote eating disorders with "thinspiration" and starvation tips.
William Filancia, 43, of Orange Park, is charged with sexual battery, false imprisonment, extortion and possession of a controlled substance
John H. Noble, an American who never knew why the Soviets imprisoned him in their notorious gulag, but not only lived to write books on the grim, decade-long experience but also recovered his family's company and castle in the former East Germany, died on Nov.
Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice is among more than 25 celebrities that signed a letter calling on the United Nations to secure the release of Burma's democratic activist Aung San Suu Kyi.
Renowned comedian, Jim Carrey, makes a plea for the release of imprisoned peace activist and champion of democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi.
In 2000, Time magazine elected Marc van Roosmalen, a Dutch primatologist, as one of the "Heroes of the Planet" for his work in the Amazon.
Impeachment is for now, but after 2008 the wheels of justice will be grinding about the imprisonment and execution of 9/11 traitors. America lost its soul in 9/11 and dealing ultimately with Bush/Republican traitors is the only way to get it back.
Someone finally trying to take a sane look at sex offender legislation. If only it would catch on...
Three people who kept an epileptic man prisoner in a garden shed for four months were today given lengthy jail sentences. Kevin Davies, 29, was repeatedly beaten, burnt and humiliated by the trio, who held the handyman hostage over a minor debt they claimed he owed them.
Every morning, as she watches her drag herself out of bed and dress herself with painstaking slowness, Nadine Angus has to stop herself from crying out: "Buck up, Daisy! Get a move on!" She daren't even take dawdling Daisy to the supermarket because she will have to tear he …
New Delhi - Police in India's eastern state of West Bengal have rescued a 40-year-old-woman who was imprisoned by her husband and in-laws in a cramped room for 15 years because she did not get enough dowry, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Various Republican candidates attended a meeting of Club for Growth, and afterwards, National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru spoke to Cato Institute's President Ed Crane about what they said. This brief report from Ponnuru is simply extraordinary:
The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists.
Man gets 2 years imprisonment for forging Rajiv Gandhi's sign Friday January 19 2007 14:14 IST PTI
The story of a 13-year-old Wisconsin girl locked in her room for almost two years is tragic and sad. The criminal complaint against the parents describes how she was trapped in her room over 20 hours a day only being allowed to sit.
Motorists who use their mobile phones while driving could soon face jail, under reforms announced yesterday. A wide range of offences including tailgating, tuning a car radio or applying make-up while driving may also be reclassified as serious offences following proposals unvei …
Citizen journalists are among those targetted as press freedoms erode around the globe.
Wow, better not run a pron site if you live in china. Reuters has a news story about founder of China's biggest pornography Web site getting life imprisonment.
A Romanian man is in trouble after he locked his allegedly unfaithful wife in the chicken coop for a week.
The House approved an administration-backed system of questioning and prosecuting terrorism suspects yesterday, setting clearer limits on CIA interrogation techniques but denying access to courts for detainees seeking to challenge their imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and e …