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'He can never be Daddy again'

The two horrified daughters of the man charged with raping three women locked in his house for a decade have denounced their father, declaring: "We don't have monster in our blood."

Kerre McIvor: Let's care enough to interfere

There are a number of cases where young women have been abducted and locked away, but this latest case in Cleveland, where three young women were held captive for more than 10 years, is particularly nasty.

Jack Tame: Failure of community taints celebrations for survivors

She had her top pulled high to cover her head and she moved in a shield of police. The crowd cheered and surged a little. Cameramen bustled and focused their lenses.

Ohio victims may have been on 'auto-pilot'

Mr Castro stands before you captive

Hands cuffed, his chin buried deep in the collar of his dark blue jumpsuit, Ariel Castro appeared in a Cleveland court yesterday.

Close neighbourhood a myth

Whatever happened to the mythical American neighbourhood, that Rockwellian idyll of friendliness and normality, where no problem cannot be resolved by the community spirit, and nothing nasty ever happens?

Maddy's mum still keeping vigil

Kate McCann did something frighteningly normal recently. She stopped at a petrol station, and went in to pay, leaving her 8-year-old twins strapped in the back seat.

'Kidnap' story could lead to jail

A West Auckland man is facing up to 14 years in jail after he allegedly lied to police about being kidnapped and torching his own mother's car.

Police grill 'kidnapped' tycoon

An Irish property developer who was allegedly kidnapped for eight months has been released from police custody.

Police draw blank following attempted abduction

Women arrested after kidnapping, robbing man

Kiwi kidnapped and beaten by Greek police

Baby kidnapper had 'no evil intent'

A woman who kidnapped a newborn baby from hospital to convince her partner she had given birth has been banned from having unsupervised access to babies.

Child abductor stalks streets

Guilty of bush murder

Wayne Bracken was found guilty of kidnapping and murdering Jack Davis in 2011. But co-accused Neville Dangen, 24 was found not guilty of the same charges.

Murder-accused 'trimmed nails'

A man accused of murdering an Auckland father was so forensically aware, he trimmed his nails and hair and burned bloody clothing, a court has been told.

Terror at abduction attempts

‘I can’t forgive her’: Mum

The mother of a newborn baby kidnapped from her hospital crib has described her terror at thinking the child was gone forever.