List of long-term false imprisonment cases
Appearance
This is a list of notable cases of child abuse in which children were illegally imprisoned for multiple years.
Cases of children imprisoned by relatives
- Alvarez case, Colombia, 25 years
- Fritzl case, Austria, 24 years
- Genie (feral child), US, 13 years
- Lydia Gouardo, France, 28 years
- Moe incest case, Australia, 28 years
- Mongelli case, Italy, 25 years
- Blanche Monnier, France, 25 years
- Sheffield incest case, UK, 25 years
- Linz sisters, Austria, 7 years
Cases of abduction
- Ariel Castro kidnappings, US, 11 years
- Kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard, US, 18 years
- Tanya Nicole Kach, US, 10 years
- Natascha Kampusch, Austria, 8 years
- Viktor Mokhov, Russia, 4 years
- Fusako Sano, Japan, 9 years
- Steven Stayner, US, 7 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