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Posted March 17th, 2009 by minortopics | Permalink

Fritzl pleads not guilty to murder

Josef Fritzl, the sick guy accused of keeping his daughter in a locked cellar for 24 years is on trial in Austria. Prosecutors contend that Fritzl didn’t speak to his daughter for years, and the only contact he had with her was to rape her — often in front of the young children she had given birth to from his incest. He pleaded guilty to the incest and kidnapping, but denied being responsible for the death of a 2 day old infant. Investigators say the baby probably would have survived if given access to medical care.

In her opening statement, prosecutor Christiane Burkheiser portrayed Fritzl as a callous and contemptuous captor who held his daughter in a filthy cramped space that didn’t even have a shower or warm water and repeatedly raped her in front of the children.

At other times, she said, Fritzl punished her by shutting off the electricity — plunging the dungeon cell into darkness for days at a time. “Josef Fritzl used his daughter like his property,” Burkheiser said.

“The worst was … there was no daylight,” she said, adding it was also “incredibly humid” and the air was moldy and stale.


Information from: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,5093...


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