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Josef Fritzl was sentenced to life in a psychiatric institution on Thursday for locking up and raping his daughter over 24 years, fathering seven children with her, and causing the death of an infant son.

A Filipino woman who successfully sought the conviction of an American serviceman for raping her in 2005 now says she has doubts about the events of that night.

An Austrian man who fathered seven children with a daughter he locked in a cellar pleaded guilty Monday to rape and incest but denied murder in connection with the death of a newborn boy who died underground.

A detective forced a woman to perform a sex act and then raped her while on duty in his own police station, it has been alleged.

A teacher from western Massachusetts and her 15-year-old student — who disappeared a week ago after the boy's parents complained about the woman's relationship with their son — have been found in West Virginia.