Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped at 10 by a deranged man
A woman who was kidnapped by a deranged man when she was just 10
years-old and brutally r*ped, psychologically abused and help hostage
has shared her story. She has now inherited the home in which she was
tortured and sexually abused.
According to Dailymail,
Natascha Kampusch was just 10 years old when she was snatched by
deranged loner Wolfgang Priklopil and held captive in a cramped dungeon
cellar hidden in the basement of his unassuming house near Vienna, in
Austria. For almost a decade she was treated as his sex slave - beaten,
starved and locked underground - until she decided to flee on August 23,
2006. Priklopil killed himself by jumping in front of a train on the
day she escaped aged 44.
Now, in an exclusive interview with Channel Seven's Sunday Night,
Kampusch, now 28, took reporter Rahni Sadler on a walk through the
building where the nightmarish ordeal took place - a home she now calls
her own and lives in most weekends.
Natascha is now all grown up and has inherited the house where she was abused
As Kampusch started a tour around the home where she was relentlessly abused and tormented, she strangely asked Sadler: 'Are you feeling okay coming in here?'
She went on to explain that it was '(therapeutic) ... in a special way'
to be able to spend time in the house where a large chunk of her
horrific childhood played out. When asked about Priklopil, the computer
technician that would force her to act as his personal maid when she
wasn't living in isolation, Kampusch had little to say.
'He had two parts in his personality. I call the one part the dark side and it was like, a schizophrenic personality,' she said softly and reminiscently, in halted English.
'I think one part was the part of the outside, the part of the
handsome person. The brave son. And the dark side ... the brutal person
with no conscience.'
All that remains of Kampusch's five square-metre cellar prison is a
concrete slab with the date '2011' carved into it. She says the council
'made' her fill it in.
When asked why she didn't want to sell or burn the house down to
the ground, Kampusch calmly responded that she didn't want it to 'become
a theme park.'
She continues to clean the house from top to bottom, exactly as she
was once instructed under threat of punishment by Priklopil over ten
years ago.
The outdated home appears almost untouched, as if it were an eerie time capsule paying homage to its twisted past.
In a recent interview with Germany's Bild newspaper Kampusch recalled the day she escaped, saying: 'I was told to clean his car.
'He wanted to sell it and had told me to clean it really
thoroughly and completely. I remember that I felt like I could eat a
horse because I had to make him jam sandwiches for breakfast but got
nothing myself.'
At 12.56pm Priklopil, 44, took a call on his mobile phone and was momentarily distracted.
Kampusch went on: 'Previously he has observed me all the time.
But because of the vacuum cleaner whirring in my hand he had to walk a
few steps away to better understand his caller.'
Natascha, who received his house in his estate said: 'I crept to the gate which was usually closed or blocked by heavy objects, but not on this day.
At 12.58pm she opened the gate and ran to freedom, bringing an
end to the ordeal that had begun in March 1998 when Priklopil snatched
her as she walked to school."
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