List of child abuse cases featuring long-term detention

This is a list of notable cases of child abuse in which children were illegally imprisoned for multiple years.

Cases of children imprisoned by relatives

• Alvarez case, Colombia, 25 years
• Fritzl case, Austria, 24 years
• Genie (feral child), US, 13 years
• Lydia Gouardo, France, 28 years
• Moe incest case, Australia, 28 years
• Mongelli case, Italy, 25 years
• Blanche Monnier, France, 25 years
• Sheffield incest case, UK, 25 years
• Linz sisters, Austria, 7 years

Cases of abduction

• Ariel Castro kidnappings, US, 11 years
• Kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard, US, 18 years
• Tanya Nicole Kach, US, 10 years
• Natascha Kampusch, Austria, 8 years
• Viktor Mokhov, Russia, 4 years
• Fusako Sano, Japan, 9 years
• Steven Stayner, US, 7 years

Cases of uncertain background

• Kaspar Hauser, Germany, 16? years

See also

• Lizzie van Zyl, concentration camp victim in British South Africa
• Anne Frank, concentration camp victim in Nazi Germany