Posted March 17th, 2009 by minortopics | via www.foxnews.com
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.
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Posted April 30th, 2008 by minortopics | via www.telegraph.co.uk
The story of the Austria man who kept his daughter and her children locked in a cellar for 24 years just got stranger and more depressing.
Stefan Fritzl, 18, and his brother Felix, five, learned to talk by watching a television in the dungeon where they were held with their mother Elisabeth Fritzl, 42. But their form of communciation is only partly intelligible to Austrian police officers.
Police chief Leopold Etz, 50, who has met the two boys, said: “It is only half true that they can speak. They communicate with noises that are a mixture of growling and cooing.
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Posted April 27th, 2008 by minortopics | via www.telegraph.co.uk
An Austrian woman, now 42, was found in an Austrian cellar where she had been locked up and raped over the course of 24 years. The woman was the daughter of her abuser. Seven children were fathered as a result, although other pregnancies or babies may not have survived.
This is not the first time an Austrain female was found hostage in Austria. Last year Natascha Kampusch was found after being held in a bunker for 8 years, and snatched by a pedophile. Vienna has long been a safe haven for many pedophile rings. Recent busts have exposed these rings and cracked down on this phenomenon.
Police in Austria have freed a woman who was allegedly locked in an underground dungeon and abused by her father for 24 years.
The woman, named as Elisabeth Fritzl, 42, is believed to have been sexually abused and beaten by her father, 73, since 1984, as he kept her hostage in a cellar beneath his house in a village near the town of Amstetten in Lower Austria.
Police suspect that the man - who has not been named for legal reasons - fathered his daughter’s four children, the oldest of whom is 19.
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