Kidnapped Austrian teen 'reserved' towards parents
The young Austrian woman who endured eight and a half years in captivity has adopted a “reserved attitude” toward her parents since her dramatic escape and tearful reunion with her family last week, psychologists treating the teenager said today.
Experts who have been meeting with 18-year-old Natascha Kampusch in Vienna since she bolted to freedom on August 23 said she has been in regular telephone contact only with her mother and has not had any further contact with her father.
Monika Pinterits, a lawyer who specialises in representing traumatised youths, said Kampusch might not decide for weeks or months whether to live with one of her parents, who divorced after her abduction as a 10-year-old schoolgirl in March 1998.
Max Friedrich, a criminal psychiatrist on the team treating Kampusch, said the years she spent as a prisoner – often confined to a windowless underground cell - amounted to “isolation torture”.
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