In keeping with the children and mental health theme (though, on a much more disturbing level), after last week I knew it was only a matter of time before I was passing this information along to you:
AMSTETTEN, Austria – The lawyer for the Austrian man who allegedly imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven children with her has said he is preparing an insanity defense (Lawyer: Austrian suspect Fritzl has mental disorder).
I’m not at all surprised and, quite honestly, I don’t feel this is one of those insanity pleas meant to decrease punishment. Anyone who kidnaps his own …read more

With it’s themes of incest and secretly imprisoning children, this is quite the Flowers in the Attic-type story; only, it’s more like Flowers in the Basement.
Oh, and unlike the V.C. Andrews novel, this isn’t fiction.
A 42-year-old Austrian woman, simply identified as Elisabeth F., has been rescued from her 73-year-old father’s windowless basement cell, where she and three of the seven children her father fathered with her, have lived since 1984. Three more of the children lived with her (and their) father as orphans who just happened to show up on their doorstep, and the remaining child died shortly after birth.
According …read more