BBC NEWS | Europe | Austrian detectives study cellar
Police in Amstetten, Austria, have described the cellar where a woman was allegedly held captive and sexually abused for 24 years by her father.
A series of underground rooms equipped for sleeping and cooking, and with sanitary facilities, lay behind a concealed door, police said.
The father, 73, allegedly had seven children with his daughter, now aged 42, and is under arrest.
Now the kicker is the following:
Police arrested him shortly afterwards and took the children into care, along with the three who had been adopted or fostered.
[The wife] Rosemarie appears to have been unaware of the suspected crimes of her husband.
This seems to have been going on for 24 years in the basement and the idiot wife was unaware? She should be arrested too.























