Austrian Woman Says She Is Schoolgirl Who Disappeared 8 Years Ago

"And for my next trick..."

An 18-year-old woman in Austria tells police she escaped a kidnapper who held her captive for eight years in a sealed garage.

This is the second similiar story this year. I was unaware you could keep women as pets.

Police say relatives identified the woman as Natascha Kampusch, who disappeared in 1998 while she was walking to school.

All this time she's been in the garage. I knew we should have looked in there. We should clean it up.

Austrian news agency APA quotes investigators as saying there are no signs the woman was sexually abused.

Just held in a garage for eight years but thank god no one touched her naughty places.

The woman told police she escaped from a house in a village near Vienna. She said that since her kidnapping, she spent most of her time confined to a garage. She said her abductor allowed her to take occasional walks with him in the neighborhood.

Looks like we need to start teaching our children how to call out for help. Never underestimate the importance of knowing how to make a specticle of yourself. It may just one day spare you from spending eight years in the garage.