An Associated Press article in the Boston Globe, 14 November 2008 begins:

VIENNA – Prosecutors filed a murder charge yesterday against the man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in a rat-infested cell and fathering her seven children, saying one of the youngsters who died in infancy might have survived if brought to a doctor.

It gets worse.  It gets a lot worse.  Read the whole thing and you’ll feel your grip on reality slipping away with every sentence.  The absolute surrealism of this story – the natural subconscious belief that this surely cannot have happened in the real world – almost makes it seem like this must have been written for The Onion, except nothing about it is even the tiniest bit funny.