List of child abuse cases featuring long-term detention

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This is a list of notable child abuse cases in which children were illegally imprisoned for multiple years.

Cases of children imprisoned by relatives

• Alba Nidia Alvarez, Colombia, 25 years,^[1][2] discovered in March 2009
• Jeffrey Baldwin, Canada, 4 years ^[3]
• Elisabeth Fritzl and her children, Austria, 24 years,^[4] discovered in April 2008
• "Genie", United States, 13 years,^[5] discovered on November 4, 1970
• Lydia Gouardo, France, 28 years^[6]
• Viktoria, Katharina, and Elisabeth Linz, Austria, 7 years^[7]
• Sheffield incest case, United Kingdom, 25 years, discovered in November 2008
• , Lebanon, Pennsylvania, 10 years, discovered in May 2020^[8]
• "M" and her children, Australia, 28 years, discovered in February 2007
• "Laura" Mongelli, Italy, 25 years
• Blanche Monnier, France, 25 years^[9][10][11]
• Turpin case, Perris, California, USA, 29 years,^[12][13][14] discovered on January 14, 2018
• Rader/Beighley case, Pennsylvania, USA, 1 year^[15][16][17]
• Lucero case, Argentina, 20 years, discovered in May 2009.^[18][19]
• Elizabeth Wesson, her sisters, her children, her nieces and her nephews, Fresno, California, USA, 26 years.
• 2019 South Wales paternal sex abuse case, South Wales, United Kingdom, 20 years.^{[20][21][22][23]}

Cases of abduction

• Junko Furuta
• Jayme Closs, kidnapped after her parents' murder and held for 88 days.
• Murder of Sylvia Likens, a teenager tortured and repeatedly held captive in the basement by her caretaker and her children and their friends for three months.
• Jaycee Dugard, kidnappers Phillip and Nancy Garrido, Antioch, California, USA, 18 years, 2 months, 16 days. ^[24][25]
• John Jamelske, serial rapist-kidnapper who, from 1988 to his apprehension in 2003, kidnapped a series of girls and women and held them captive in a concrete bunker beneath the yard of his home in DeWitt, a suburb of Syracuse, New York, United States. All 5 of his victims were from different ethnic origins and most from different age groups.
• Shawn Hornbeck, kidnapper Michael Devlin, Kirkwood, Missouri, USA, 4 years.^[26]
• Tanya Nicole Kach, kidnapper Thomas Hose, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA, 10 years.^[27][28][29]
• Natascha Kampusch, kidnapper Wolfgang Přiklopil, Vienna, Austria, 8 years, 5 months.^[10]
• Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Georgina "Gina" DeJesus, kidnapper Ariel Castro, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 9 to 11 years.^[30][31][32]
• Katya Martynova and Lena Samokhina, kidnapper Viktor Mokhov, Skopin, Ryazan, Russia, 3 to 4 years.^[33][34]
• Anna Saito, kidnapper Kabu Terauchi, Higashi-Nakano, Tokyo, Japan, 2 years.^[35][36]
• Fusako Sano, kidnapper Nobuyuki Satō, Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, 9 years, 2 months.^[37]
• Santa Ana kidnapping accusation of 15-year-old girl, held by Isidro Garcia, Santa Ana, California, USA, 10 years.^[38][39]
• Elizabeth Smart, kidnappers Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee, Salt Lake City, Utah, and San Diego County, California, USA, 9 months.^[40]
• Steven Stayner, kidnappers Kenneth Parnell and Ervin Murphy, Merced, California, USA, 7 years.^[41]

Sexual slavery of minors

• Kidwelly sex cult
• Jeffrey Epstein
• Birmingham bathing cult

Other

• Kaspar Hauser, Nuremberg, Germany, 16 years^[42]
• Marvin L. Maple, arrested in 2009 for kidnapping his grandchildren, 20 years earlier
• Colleen Stan, an American woman who was kidnapped and held captive between 1977 and 1984.
• Alicia Kozakiewicz, Herndon, Virginia, USA

References