Posted on 04/28/2008 10:44:36 AM PDT by Jay777
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.
Josef Fritzl, 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.
"We are being confronted with an unfathomable crime," Interior Minister Guenther Platter said.
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 the children have been placed under psychiatric care in an undisclosed location.
Authorities 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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Yeah, he’s Evil,
but you also get leftists defending day in and day out
situations where the girl is being taken to Planned Parenthood to cover up this rape/incest, it not being reported, and being taken back to her rapist.
They were “abandoned” on their doorstep.
Prayers for Elisabeth Fritzl and her children. This is one of the most terrible stories I have read of.
From "Remembering a Sixties Terrorist" -by Donna Ron
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, January 04, 2006:
"when I was getting ready to leave [Bill] Ayers told me I couldnt go until I slept with his roommate and his brother. At this point Bill and I had slept together just once. I was sexually inexperienced, having had only one serious boyfriend with whom I had recently broken up. At first I thought Ayers was joking. I got up; and went to the door. He moved quickly to block me at the doorway. He locked the door and put the chain on it. I went to the couch and sat down and told him that I had no intention of having sex with his roommate and his brother or him. He said that I had no choice but to do as he said if I wanted to get out of there. He claimed that I wouldnt sleep with his married roommate because he was black -- that I was a bigot. I got up from the couch and walked over to the black roommates bed and put myself on it and he ****** me. I went totally out of my body. I floated beside myself on the outside and above the bed looking at this black stranger **** me angrily while I hated myself."
Remembering a Sixties Terrorist -by Donna Ron
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, January 04, 2006:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=9E8CD8A7-E90B-4311-8AA9-AEFD014A14B2
From the 2001 interview Bill Ayers did with the New York Times:
"He [Bill Ayers] also writes about the Weathermen's sexual experimentation as they tried to 'smash monogamy.' The Weathermen were 'an army of lovers,' he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend."
"Mr. Ayers, who in 1970 was said to have summed up the Weatherman philosophy as: 'Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at,' is today distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago."
Article title: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen":
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
This man sounds like the Nazi’s who sent people to one of two places—to either work or die. This man chose his children to either come up above ground or be condemned underground with the unwanted. I wonder what determined which children he chose and which ones he rejected. Appearance? More Aryan looking? Who knows? Sheer evil.
“I want to be a cavalryman, as my father was”
I find this very hard to believe that the mother of this girl did not hear or see anything wrong for 24 years. I just can not believe that at all.
I have given up trying to figure out any of these atrocities...
all I can say is, “Satan is alive & well!”
How dare those people invade this happy little family and subfamily.
I’m speechless. This sickens me. Prayers for Elisabeth and all the children.
Who said that? After 24 years, I wonder how difficult it will be for her to live on the outside.
Unless I read the whole story wrong, how on earth does someone live in a house for 24 years without ever going in a basement? Especially if this guy had soundproofing put it. I would wonder why that was needed and be the first to look. The grandmother must have been intimidated by him some how. Being that said, the minute he left the house, I would be picking around every square foot. Where did this guy work? The article just does not answer any questions I have. As in most bizarre cases, they never do.
Europe has abandoned "prayers" for victims. Sorry, folks, feeeeeelings just don't cut it.
Austria’s greatest accomplishment - convincing the world that Hitler was German.
She was 18. A lot of young adults take off at that age.
Please. Either Elisabeth’s mother was in major denial or knew everything and went along. How did her husband explain closing off a portion of the basement? Wasn’t she ever curious about what was on the other side of that door? She had to have looked around some. The whole thing is so sick it boggles the mind.
I agree...she needs prayers. I doubt she’ll ever be able to have any kind of normal relationship again. That disgusting man stole her best years and wounded her forever. Unforgiveable.
I hope he repents. If he doesn’t, he’ll be facing a very stern Judge.
You know what I HATE about these cases, the media focuses all the attention on the life of the depraved sicko, and nothing on the people we SHOULD be caring about, the victims of these incidents. I don't CARE what happens to daddy as long as he's locked in a hole for the rest of his life (preferably in a manner worse than he provided for his kids) or executed. But it WOULD be nice to know the status of the poor daughter and her children that will be in people's thoughts and prayers.
Here's what little info I was able to gather. There are no photos of the poor children locked in the basement. However, there are are few photos of the children that weren't held capitive, and they're a couple of cute kids, you'd never guess they were incest babies.
Real tragic story on all sides. Let's hope they can recover from this sort of thing. I wonder if a donation drive can be set up to help this loving family reintegrate into society.
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Elisabeth bore seven children, Kerstin, 19, Stefan, 18, Lisa, 15, Monika, 14, Alexander, 12 and Felix, 5.
Elisabeth Fritzl, 42
Shown here at age 15, shortly before she disappeared. Elisabeth Fritzl is described as being in "very bad condition.". Police said she was as pale and malnourished with hair that had turned white, has told police she was held captive since shortly after her 19th birthday. Detectives said she appeared "greatly disturbed" during questioning. She agreed to talk only after authorities assured her she would no longer have to have contact with her father and that her children would be protected.
Kerstin Fritzl,19
Kerstin was taken to hospital eight days ago when she became unwell and police became suspicious. Kerstin lapsed into a coma, and she remains in a coma. Kerstin remains at the hospital and is described as being in stable but serious condition .Elisabeth had taught the three captive children in the basement how to write and speak German, and they had access to a television.
Stefan Fritz, 18
Police said the 18-year-old had been "surprised" when Fritzl allowed her to go to the hospital. Stefan both had difficulty adjusting to sunlight. He had never seen it before. Stefan and Felix, two of the three children imprisoned in the cellar were surprisingly healthy, if pale, according to the authorities.
Lisa Fritzl, 15
The oldest of the children to be raised in a normal home. By most accounts, the three children who grew up in the Fritzls care were well-adjusted, each learning to play a musical instrument. "They had a swimming pool in the garden, we would hear them laughing the three of them," said one neighbor.
Monika Fritzl, 14
(Monika, center photo). Matthias Sonnleitner, who manages a hardware store, said his children had taken martial arts classes with the Fritzl children. Rosemarie Fritzl occasionally came to his store to buy curtains, he said. A school spokesman said: "They are well behaved and always get good marks." Karl Dattinger, 20, a volunteer firefighter, recalls that Monika had received a perfect score on a test of fire safety he gave at their school.
Alexander Fritzl, 12
(Alex, left photo). The social workers found nothing out of the ordinary, reporting that Fritzl's wife was attentive, and that Alexander was doing well in school and clubs, but was quiet and kept to himself. His twin had died shortly after birth.
Felix Fritzl, 5
The youngest of the freed children, five-year-old Felix, told carers of his joy at the simple pleasure of riding in a car after spending his entire life underground. He said how happy he was and how fantastic it was to ride in a real car," said Heinz Lenze, the local mayor.
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Comparison photo of a teenage Elisabeth Fritzl with her daughter Monika, how at the same age. Note the resemblance. This one reaches touches me for some reason.
Today’s articles carry a little more detail. Seems he had really planned this out thoroughly. What a sick twisted individual.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353040,00.html
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