List of child abuse cases featuring long-term detention

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
• Elisabeth Fritzl and her children, Austria, 24 years
• "Genie," US, 13 years
• Lydia Gouardo, France, 28 years
• Viktoria, Katharina, and Elisabeth Linz, Austria, 7 years
• "M" and her children, Australia, 28 years
• "Laura" Mongelli, Italy, 25 years
• Blanche Monnier, France, 25 years
• Sheffield incest case, UK, 25 years
• Chiyo Aizawa incest case

Cases of abduction

• Jaycee Lee Dugard and her children, USA, 18 years 2 months
• Tanya Nicole Kach, USA, 10 years
• Natascha Kampusch, Austria, 8 years 5 months
• Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and daughter, and Georgina "Gina" DeJesus, USA, 9 to 11 years
• Viktor Mokhov, Russia, 4 years
• Fusako Sano, Japan, 9 years 2 months
• Steven Stayner, USA, 7 years
• Unidentified 15-year-old girl, USA, 10 years

Cases of uncertain background

• Kaspar Hauser, Germany, 16? years

See also

• Lizzie van Zyl, concentration camp victim in British South Africa
• Anne Frank, concentration camp victim in Nazi Germany

References