German woman jailed for isolating baby daughter for seven years

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2026-05-04

Siegen, Germany (dpa) - A German woman was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday for having isolated her young daughter from the outside world for more than seven years. A regional court in Siegen found that the woman had concealed the child from a very young age at the home of her parents - the child's grandparents. The girl was eight years old when she was freed from the house in the town of Attendorn, some 65 kilometres east of Cologne,......

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