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"EIGHT harrowing years had passed, but there was instant recognition between father and the daughter who had been held captive in an underground dungeon since they last saw each other.
Natascha Kampusch stopped and stared at Ludwig Koch for a few moments, as if to dispel any lingering possibility that this was a dream. Then the frail teenager, dressed in the simple orange dress and ballet shoes provided by her abductor, jumped into her father’s arms, clung tightly to his neck and began to sob uncontrollably.

Herr Koch’s tears flowed freely too. “She is 100 per cent my daughter,” wept Herr Koch as he hugged the child he had not seen since she was 10 years old.
“The only way to imagine it was to picture a scene from a movie,” said Herwig Haidinger, a senior police officer who was present at the reunion on Wednesday night. “It was completely overwhelming.”

Yesterday Natascha was also reunited with her mother, Brigitte Sirny, for the first time since the morning in 1998 when she was snatched from a Vienna street as she walked to school.
“She looked at me and I saw straightaway it was my little girl. A mother doesn’t forget the face of her child. I knew. I opened my arms and called her my little mouse and she said ‘mama’. She knew it was me,” Frau Sirny said last night in an interview on Austrian television. “In all this time I have never given up hope that she would come knocking on the door. I left her bedroom exactly as it was when she vanished, I never changed a thing. It’s all still there waiting for her.

“I didn’t ask her any questions about her ordeal, I just listened. I know she will tell me everything when she is ready. She was taken when she was 10 years old and yet she survived, she was sensible and waited for her chance. She knew I would come.”

Police have taken the family to a “secure location” to allow them some privacy, but also to give detectives the chance to piece together the story of the most astonishing crime in Austria’s postwar history."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2328291,00.html

Ok, now that you've opened that box, why don't you expand on the idea. What? A ten year old ran off with a neighbor to be his love slave for the last eight years? You think she ran away and now is coming back and making these preposterous claims that she was abducted and abused for eight years? In this case I would err on the poor girls side, until all the evidence comes out. Then I would err on the girls side and find a way to eliminate the perpetrator of the crime.