Woman locked up in bunker seeks damages

A Swedish doctor who admitted to abducting a woman and locking her up in a homemade bunker had planned the crime for years and may have tried to capture other victims, prosecutors said as the trial started on Monday.

The 38-year-old man, whose name wasn't published in Sweden in line with privacy rules, has admitted to sedating the woman, abducting her and locking her up for almost a week in a soundproofed bunker he built inside a machine shed next to his home. He denies charges that he also raped her.

The victim's lawyer Jens Hogstrom said his client was traumatized. Hogstrom said she is demanding $44,000 in damages. That isn't an unusual amount in Sweden, where damages are much lower than in, for example, the United States.