 Schelingová was sentenced on 17 June 1952 to over a decade of imprisonment of a period that was defined as 1952 until 1964 and from that point to 1955 she was sent from prison to prison (such as in Bratislava and Brno) where she was often beaten and tortured.Torture saw her right breast torn apart from continual kicks and breast cancer soon set in as a result.She soon was admitted into a prison ward of the Prague hospital in 1954 where it was amputated without anesthesia.