Braddock wrote:
Look out Belgium...Austria is gunning for your creepiest country in Europe title!
Oh yeah, we've got the cellars of doom.
Seriously, even though that was probably meant in some ironic way, I'm pretty amazed about press reports all over the world.
Austria, again? Are we that sick?
Not really, however, it's quite amazing that so many of those cases have been of public interest. Especially since the Kampusch hype, it seems that people have found out how to feed the press. I wouldn't want to know what happens in others countries' cellars that's not made public.
About the trial for this man, I wouldn't want to be his lawyer, honestly. Then again, there isn't probably an appropriate punishment for him. He's old, imprisoning him for more than 20 years means that he'll for sure end up dead in prison. And I'm not giving him any chances to survive more than 5 years in jail anyway.
On the other hand, he's gone
quite mental, so imprisoning might not even be legal anyway. I'm wondering, do such people get a 'therapy'?
I know of another sick story, where a mother literally chopped her two boys apart with an axe while they were sleeping. Not that these two crimes were comparable in any way, but the delinquents are. People would never have guessed both to ever be capable of doing something like this. Especially in the case of the two boys (who went to my school), not a single teacher knew (apparently, everything else would be kinda sad) about their mother being that wicked.
Said mother thought she'd redeem her children with that act, completely unaware of what she really was doing. Yet, she hasn't understood what she did after years, and she probably never will. Where's the sense in working therapeutically with her and in that way probably driving her into deep depressions and perhaps suicide? Such people should rather be locked up, but not in a prison.
Mm, yeah, whatever,
with kind regards,
Stormscythe