Amstetten, Austria

   Whenever there is news about a kidnapping of a child and children for the purposes of sexual gratification I become very perturbed, not just because of the horrible nature of this crime but also because of the memory of Gabriela's ordeal. This crime in Austria is particularly horrendous for it touched and ruined so many lives. In addition, it was incestuous. I cannot figure for the life of me how a man can debase himself to such a low degree to start sexually abusing his daughter when she was eleven and then when she was eighteen to drug and imprison her in a basement dungeon, and furthermore, to continue her degradation and torture to father seven children with her oven a twenty-four year period. What kind of malevolent spirit can guide one to do such a thing.     

  There is so much bad in this world and I believe that is why it is important for people of good heart to do their best to be kind to everyone, even in the smallest way.