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Father Held Daughter in Cellar for 24 Years in Austria

 
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 11:20 pm    Post subject: Father Held Daughter in Cellar for 24 Years in Austria Reply with quote

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Police: Father Held Daughter in Cellar for 24 Years in Austria
Sunday, April 27, 2008
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This is one of the most insane stories I have ever read. How, why- did this occur and how come no-body found out about this?

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:22 am    Post subject: follow up Reply with quote

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Austrian Man Confesses to Keeping Daughter, Her Children Captive in Cellar
Monday, April 28, 2008

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AMSTETTEN, Austria — A man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in a windowless cell with a soundproofed door and fathering seven children with her including three who "never saw sunlight," police said Monday.

The man, now 73, also told investigators that he tossed the body of one of the children in an incinerator when the infant died shortly after birth, said Franz Polzer, head of the Lower Austrian Bureau of Criminal Affairs.

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The daughter, who is now 42, had been missing since 1984 and was found by police in the town of Amstetten on Saturday evening after police received a tip. She and her children have been placed in psychiatric care.

Police on Monday released several photos showing parts of the cramped basement cell, with a small bathroom and a narrow passageway leading to a tiny bedroom. Investigators said an electronic keyless-entry system apparently kept the daughter from escaping from the cell, which was made of solid reinforced concrete.
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This story is just sick...I hope they all recover and receive the help they all need.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:31 am    Post subject: update to story Reply with quote

This guy is a real sicko. I did not realize he held some of the children he fathered with his daughter captive too. He states, "He was born a rapist", hope he dies as one soon!! He considers himself a victim, well if he knew he was one ,he could have gotten help for the behaviors he displayed later on in his life. His trial starts early next year.

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Austrian Horror Dad: I Was 'Born to Be a Rapist'
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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VIENNA, Austria — Josef Fritzl, the Austrian builder who locked his daughter in a cellar and fathered seven children with her, sees himself as a born rapist, a victim of his own tyrannical mother.

According to the first leaked account of interviews with a forensic psychiatrist, which is due to appear in two Austrian newspapers today, Fritzl hatched his plan to incarcerate his daughter, Elisabeth, while he was in prison for rape.

“I have realized that I had a mean streak. For someone who was born to be a rapist, I have managed to contain myself for a relatively long period,” Fritzl is quoted as telling the psychiatrist in a 130-page report leaked to the tabloid newspapers Kronen Zeitung and Österreich.

Fritzl, 73, is awaiting trial for sexually abusing and incarcerating Elisabeth, 42, in a purpose-built dungeon beneath his house in the town of Amstetten. He fathered seven children by her, one of whom died shortly after birth and Fritzl burnt his body in an oven.

Three of the surviving children were allowed to live upstairs with him and wife, Rosemarie, 69, while their three siblings were condemned to a shadowy existence with their mother in the cellar. They never saw daylight until they were freed by police on April 26. It emerged that Fritzl had a previous criminal record for sexual offences.

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“Mr. Fritzl resembles a volcano; under the surface that appears almost banal there is an evil streak. He is torn apart by his desires that he cannot master,” Dr. Kastner wrote.

The report declared Fritzl clinically sane and fit for trial, but also diagnosed a “severe combined personality disorder and a sexual disorder”.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:33 am    Post subject: Time Magazine Article Reply with quote

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Austria's Sex-Slave Father Tells His Side of the Story
By Eben Harrell Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008
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Ever since Josef Fritzl, the authoritarian patriarch of a sprawling family in the north Austrian town of Amstetten, was discovered to have imprisoned his daughter as a sex slave in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, Austria has been locked in an emotional debate over what could cause such a crime. Some have claimed Fritzl's sadism to be a vestige of Nazism's moral corruption, others that the psychological strain of living for years under the threat of nuclear destruction was to blame.


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But on Wednesday, six months after Fritzl was arrested on suspicion of incest and abduction, leaked portions of a long-awaited psychiatrist's report to prosecutors suggest that personal, rather than societal, causes were behind Fritzl's crimes. Fritzl's actions, the report said, can be partly attributed to the abuse he suffered as a child. "His story describes an unpredictable atmosphere with humiliating and unprovoked attacks from his mother," psychiatrist Adelheid Kastner wrote in her 130-page report. "His childhood made him susceptible to an emotional handicap; [he felt] the need to possess an entire human being."
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:43 am    Post subject: Update Reply with quote

No DP in this country so he is lucky, but he will be charged with murder and probably get life in prison. He deserves no less, let's take out the garbage and lock the key behind this man..
His lawyer will not appeal.

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Austrian 'Horror House' Dad Charged With Murder
Thursday, November 13, 2008
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VIENNA, Austria — Prosecutors filed a murder charge Thursday against the man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children, saying one of the youngsters who died in infancy might have survived if brought to a doctor.

Josef Fritzl "deliberately decided not to intervene" and save the infant's life, said the indictment, which also charges the 73-year-old retired electrician with rape, incest, false imprisonment and enslavement.

Officials said they expected Fritzl to go on trial in March. He faces up to life imprisonment if convicted of the murder charge. Austria, like other European countries, does not have the death penalty.

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:57 am    Post subject: Another case Reply with quote

This case resembles the one above. Another sicko who had to rape and have children with his kids. I think they should just do away with people like this instead of putting them in prison. They should at least do hard time. I can't understand how evil like these two cases can exist. There has to be a higher punishment for these men as the victims will suffer for the rest of their lives as will their children.

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Father Raped Daughters For 30 Years, Bore 9 Children
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
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LONDON — A father who repeatedly raped his two daughters for nearly 30 years told the children the abuse would never stop.

They finally broke the silence this year, but only after he had fathered nine of their children.

After nearly three decades of abuse, the 56-year-old father was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole in about 20 years after pleading guilty last month to rape and assault. During years of incestuous abuse, the man fathered nine children from his two daughters.

"In nearly 40 years of dealing with criminal cases ... (this) is the worst I have come across," judge Alan Goldsack said in his ruling at Sheffield Crown Court in northern England.

The case carries echoes of the case of Josef Fritzl — an Austrian man who confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:52 am    Post subject: Update on trial Reply with quote

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Fritzl daughter testifies in incest case
March 17, 2009
CNN, ST. POELTEN, Austria


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During the trial, prosecutors have painted a chilling picture of the more than two decades Elisabeth spent in the cellar of the family home in Amstetten with three of her children.

Fritzl took three other children upstairs, authorities have said, telling his wife and other relatives that the missing Elisabeth had dropped them at the house.

The woman and the remaining children never saw daylight, prosecutors said, and Fritzl went away for long periods of time, causing them to go hungry when he did not bring them food.

To punish them, prosecutors said, Fritzl sometimes turned the power off in the cellar for up to 10 days. In addition, they alleged, Elisabeth was often sexually assaulted in front of the children.

The case first came to light in April 2008 when Elisabeth's then-19-year-old daughter, Kerstin, became seriously ill with convulsions, and Elisabeth persuaded her father to allow the girl to be taken to a hospital.

Hospital staff became suspicious and alerted police, who discovered the family members in the cellar.

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Interesting read on how crazy this man is. It is so hard to believe that people like this exist. Read to see what charges he faces including murder of an infant.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:22 pm    Post subject: conviction Reply with quote

I think he got away to easy being locked up in a mental ward. He should be doing hard prison time (IMO).

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Incest Dad Fritzl Convicted of Murder, Sentenced to Life in Psychiatric Facility
Thursday, March 19, 2009
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ST. POELTEN, Austria — An Austrian jury convicted Josef Fritzl of homicide, enslavement, rape, incest and other charges Thursday and sentenced him to life in a psychiatric ward for imprisoning his daughter for 24 years, fathering her seven children and letting one infant die as a captive.

Fritzl, 73, sat calmly and bowed his head as the verdicts were read. He later told the court he accepted the outcome and waived his right to appeal — bringing a dramatic end to a shocking case that has drawn worldwide attention.

Court spokesman Franz Cutka said Fritzl would be taken to a secure psychiatric ward for mentally deranged criminals.

The homicide count — "murder by neglect" in German — was the most serious of the charges against 73-year-old Fritzl, and the jury gave him the maximum punishment allowed by law.

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Officials said Fritzl would not be eligible for parole for at least 15 years, and psychiatric experts would have to concur with any decision to free him. He will also have to pay court costs. The 11 months Fritzl already has spent in pretrial detention will count toward his parole.


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