Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch has denied her mother masterminded her abduction to cover up sexual abuse.
Kampusch was kidnapped by Wolfgang Priklopil at the age of 10, and held prisoner in a dungeon for more than eight years until her escape in August 2006.
A retired judge has claimed Kampusch's mother Brigitte Sirny hatched the abduction plot with Priklopil, to cover up the fact that Sirny had been sexually abusing her own daughter.
The judge, Martin Wabl, made similar allegations after Kampusch's disappearance in 1998 but was fined for defamation.
He returned to court his week, seeking to erase a criminal record he received in 2000 when Sirny successfully gained an injunction against him for making the claims.
Wabl on Thursday told the State Court in Graz: "I contacted the mother early on and something never felt right about her," Britain's Daily Mail newspaper reported.
"I have dealt with numerous disappeared and abused children but I never met a mother who gave up hope so quickly. She was quite unique."
He produced witnesses who characterised Sirny - initially a suspect in the case - as a dubious character, including one who insisted she had known Priklopil well and another who said she often hit her daughter.
Shortly after Kampusch disappeared, a Vienna newspaper published lurid photographs of the girl, wearing lipstick and riding boots, brandishing a whip and showing her private parts.
The images had been found at Sirny's flat, but the mother dismissed them as "harmless horseplay," the Daily Mail reported.
But an eminent psychiatrist declared them to be "highly sexually charged and taken for the sexual delectation of the person behind the camera".
No charges were ever brought against Sirny.
But the witnesses' claims were undermined by testimony from Kampusch, who appeared in the court to deny her mother had masterminded her kidnapping to cover up sexual abuse.
She told the hearing that she had never been molested by Sirny prior to the day she was abducted on the way to school in 1998, Britain's Independent newspaper reported.
The court was cleared of press and public for the 30 minutes of Kampusch's testimony because of the sexual nature of the evidence.
Afterwards, Judge Juergen Schweiger only said that she had denied sexual abuse at home when growing up, The Independent report said.
Separately, Kampusch said in a magazine interview that she had purchased the house near Vienna where she was held for so many years.
She said she wanted to protect it from vandals, or being torn down to make way for new development.
"I know it is grotesque. I now have to pay electricity, water and taxes on a house that I never wanted to live in," she said.
Kampusch has said she still carries a photograph in her handbag of Prikopil - who killed himself on the day she escaped.
