Austria: mother sentenced to 20 years in prison for martyring and locking her son in a cage. The 33-year-old accused was found guilty of attempted murder, torture of a minor and kidnapping.
The child, now aged 13, was “completely destroyed,” said the president of the Assize Court. The unemployed single mother was arrested the next day and then placed in detention in Krems, west of Vienna. For several months, she had doused the child with cold water while opening the apartment's windows.