Two Births Underground
As if she hadn’t been through enough trauma, four years into her captivity, she discovered she was pregnant. Sadly, she had a miscarriage ten weeks into the pregnancy. But in August of 1988, she gave birth to a baby girl, Kerstin, and two years later, she had a son, Stefan—all inside that one basement room. In all that time, she and her newborn children never left the basement or saw the outside world.
Still a prisoner in her father’s sick nightmare, she now had to learn to live underground with her two babies. The agonizing years went on as Josef continued to live his twisted double life upstairs without raising any suspicion.
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