Austria captive daughter shock

Apr. 28 - Amstetten residents shocked as local man arrested for imprisoning his daughter for 24 years.

Newspaper headlines called the case the "crime of a monster" and the "worst crime of all times". Media reports also raised questions that authorities and residents of Amstetten, 130 km (80 miles) west of Vienna, failed to notice "the martyrdom in the horror house" under their feet.

Police have now released photographs of the Austrian man who confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a windowless cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children.

The grim discovery of the family comes as Austrians are still reeling after Natascha Kampusch escaped from captivity in 2006. She had been locked in a cellar on the outskirts of Vienna for eight years after being kidnapped as a school girl.

Penny Tweedie