Natascha Kampusch shares new details

Natascha Kampusch shares new details of her life as “slave”
Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian girl who was kidnapped and held prisoner for eight years shared new details of her life in an autobiographical book entitled “3,096 Days”. In the book, Ms. Kampusch revealed the ordeal she went through as a “domestic slave” held captive in a dunk basement for eight years.
Hoping to wipe out all the ugly memories, Kampusch chose to not talk about her nightmare saying “I don’t want and will not answer any questions about personal or intimate details”. But after years of silence, Ms. Kampusch has finally broken free from her past and is ready to talk about her agonizing tale. According to Penguin, the British publishers of the English version of the book “Ms. Kampusch now feel strong enough to tell the full story of her abduction for the first time,” issuing a statement on behalf of Ms. Kampusch.
In her book, Ms. Kampusch describes how she fostered a “relationship” with her abductor Wolfgang Priklopil in order to create a sense of normalcy and to ensure her survival. 3,096 Days also chronicles the horrific and bizarre routines she endured from Wolfgang Priklopil.
Abducted at the tender age of 10 in 1998 while walking to school, Kampusch detailed how she was locked inside a concrete jail, beaten continuously and shackled to her abductor while they slept together in the same bed. The Austrian girl managed to escape from her captor in August 2006 at the age of 18. She now lives in Vienna, Austria and has become a media personality. Her abductor, Priklopil, committed suicide after her escape.
Describing her first night in captivity, Kampusch was “housed” in a subterranean bunker which was equipped with just bare essentials: a bed, toilet, and sink. She also recalls asking her abductor to act like a parent, put her to be and tell her a goodnight story. “I even asked him for a goodnight kiss,” she writes. In hindsight, she did almost anything to preserve the illusion of normality and Priklopil, played along.
Kampusch, now 22, characterized Priklopil, 35, an engineer, as having soft features. “It was only when you observed him long enough that you noticed the traces of madness lurking beneath his conservative exterior,” she writes. She goes on saying her abductor would often order her to address him as “Maestro” or “My Lord” and to kneel in front of him. She was also forced to work half-naked and have her head shaved off.
“In all his visits he talked about the people who’d supposedly ‘ordered’ my kidnapping and would come and take pictures of me and do other things as well,” she reveals in her book. “I lived in constant fear that at any moment a horde of evil men would come into my dungeon and attack me,” she recounted. “He also told me my parents had refused to pay a ransom, ‘Your parents don’t love you at all… They don’t want you back..They’re happy to be rid of you,” she shares woefully.
The English version of the book 3,096 Days is published on September 13 in the United Kingdom.
Natasha Kampusch was born on February 17, 1988 in Vienna. She was raised by her father Ludwig Koch and mother Brigitta Sirny. It was reported that her early life with her mother was not a happy one. His father, at the time of the kidnapping, was quoted saying “the time natasha was imprisoned might have been better for her than what she experienced before.