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Jayme Closs, kidnapped after her parents' murder and held for 88 days, discovered on 10 January 2019.; Murder of Sylvia Likens, a teenager tortured and repeatedly held captive in the basement by her caretaker and her children and their friends for three months, discovered on 26 October 1965.
A false imprisonment claim may be made based upon private acts, or upon wrongful governmental detention. For detention by the police, proof of false imprisonment provides a basis to obtain a writ of habeas corpus. [2] Under common law, false imprisonment is both a crime and a tort.
Experts in family abuse considered the case to be extraordinary for many reasons. In February 2019, both Turpin parents pleaded guilty on 14 felony counts, including abuse of a dependent adult, child abuse, torture, and false imprisonment. [2] In April, they were sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 25 years. [1] [3]
The Kern County child abuse cases are a notable example of day-care sex-abuse hysteria of the 1980s. [115] The cases involved claims that a pedophile sex ring performed Satanic ritual abuse: as many as 60 young children testified they had been abused. At least 36 people were convicted and most of them spent years imprisoned. 34 convictions were ...
A Georgia man accused of running a cult that views him as God was ordered held without bail Friday after being charged with rape and false imprisonment. Alleged Georgia cult leader charged with ...
A man accused in a burglary, robbery and false imprisonment case in which investigators said women were bound was acquitted, according to records
The one-time Georgia prosecutor accused of using her office to impede the investigation into Ahmaud Arbery’s killers is set to stand trial more than four years after the Black 26-year-old’s ...
He stood trial for the murder of the infant Michael, who died shortly after birth, [38] and faced between ten years' and life imprisonment. Fritzl was also charged with rape, incest, kidnapping, false imprisonment and slavery, which carry a maximum twenty-year term. [11]