All creeped out

There are news stories, and then there are news stories. There are things that happen that, if they were to be presented in a book or movie prior to being a news event, would be scoffed at as implausible or too disturbing. Despite this, horror stories come to light--quite literally--all the time.

There was the case in the Pacific Northwest wherein the parents of adopted disabled children kept them in kennels and underfed them. There was the story about the girl in Austria who was held captive for eight years in a secret room under a well-manicured suburban home. In Texas, Arizona, and Utah, a polygamist religious group with cult-like beliefs has been engaging in widespread acts of what can only be described as wholesale incestuous fornication with children.

What is wrong with these people? How in the world do they pull off these horrors of human manipulation while family members claim to have been oblivious?

The latest story is also out of Austria and it so creepy, so wrong, so warped, it seems impossible, and yet, it's not. Josef Fritzl kidnapped his own daughter, kept her prisoner underneath the house she grew up in, and fathered seven children with her. And nobody caught on for 23 years. Either this guy in one hell of a sociopathic liar, or the rest of his family lives deep in denial. Or they're stupid. Fritzl has reacted as nonplussed, arrogant, and unapologetic. He said he felt he had the right to abuse his daughter.

This story is so sick, it makes my skin crawl. Fritzl is just too twisted to be real. I hope his stay in prison is painful, humiliating, and brief (as in, he gets smacked, packed, and whacked). There is something very, very wrong with humanity.