a story you gotta read to believe

i'm sure many of you have already heard about the australian guy who slept with his daughter and locked up their six kids in the basement. his oldest daughter got sick and was taken to the hospital some time ago and was found to have organ failure. nurses were very suspicious and called the police who uncovered the crime.

so this guy slept with one of his daughters. together they had seven children, six of whom survived. he kept all the children along with his daughter (their mother) locked up in the basement. none of the children had ever seen the outside and supposedly their only access to the world was a television. the guy's wife (daughter's mother) apparently had no idea any of this was going on.

the children have since been freed and kerstin (the daughter/granddaughter of this guy who was taken to the hospital) says that she wants to see the ocean and go to a robbie williams concert. i'm not really sure what to make of this story. first, i hesitate to believe that the mother didn't know that her husband was having sex with their daughter who was locked up in the basement. On the other hand, it's hard to imagine why she wouldn't do anything if she had known. who can say? i sure can't and won't ever really know the truth.

i will say this though. this guy is one sick sick fuck. he may be literally sick in the head for all i know. and i'm not one to start spewing out nasty stuff about him especially if he has some sort of chemical imbalance. but this is one of those things that just should never never ever happen. it boggles the mind. it makes you question our humanity in general.

people might be turned of by this story, but i find it uplifting. it makes me happy reading about this girl who is finally getting a chance to start her life. it just happened to start 18 years too late.