[Dante3]

What a monster!

There have been a number of stories of people being kept captive for long periods of time. This must be a record.

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

His genes should be checked for any commonality to Hitler.

[CarrotAndStick]

Austrian confesses to abusing daughter
28 Apr 2008, 1834 hrs IST,AFP

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Josef Fritzl (AFP Photo)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AMSTETTEN, AUSTRIA: An elderly Austrian, portrayed by media as a "monster", confessed on Monday to imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, prosecutors said.

Josef Fritzl, 73, "has admitted building the dungeon and to holding his daughter and three children there," prosecution spokesman Gerhard Sedlacek said.

Fritzl also admitted incest "but insisted there was no force involved," said Sedlacek. One of the children died at an early age.

Fritzl was scheduled to be brought before an investigating magistrate on Monday evening and face several more days of questioning over the case which has shocked Austria.

Fourteen police meanwhile scoured the three cramped underground rooms in the family house in Amstetten, eastern Austria, where Elisabeth Fritzl and her children were held prisoner.

She has alleged she was drugged by her father in August 1984 and had been his prisoner ever since. All seven children were born in the "dungeon".

The six surviving children are three boys and three girls aged between five and 20.

The rooms, measuring "50-60 square metres in all" and with a ceiling just 1.70 metres (5.5 feet) high were "furnished like a flat", Sedlacek said.

Lower Austria police chief, Franz Polzer, said there was "a wide range of questions that still need answering" such as how Fritzl supplied the woman and children with food, how the babies were born and cared for in such cramped conditions, and how he could have incarcerated his victims for so long without his wife knowing.

It is the latest in a series of horror abuse cases to have stunned Austrians and newspapers asked how authorities could again have failed to detect the woman.

The case came to light when one of the children, now 19, was admitted to hospital in critical condition.

Doctors looking for background information stepped up efforts to find the mother. The whole horrific story came to light when Fritzl allowed them to establish contact with his daughter.

The Oesterreich tabloid featured a six-page special report on what it termed as "the worst crime of all time." "How can this happen here?" asked Die Presse .

"Amstetten is in a state of shock," wrote mayor Herbert Katzengruber on the town's website. "Our thoughts and feelings are with the victims."

DNA tests are being carried out to establish if Fritzl is the father of the six surviving children. The seventh child, a twin, is believed to have died shortly after birth and the body subsequently burned, police said.

The Kronen-Zeitung tabloid portrayed Fritzl as a keen fisherman, popular among neighbours and locals, but a "monster, a brutal tyrant" in the cellar of his own home.

He legally adopted two of the boys and one girl, allegedly telling his wife, Rosemarie, and local authorities that three babies had been left by Elisabeth on their doorstep, in different years.

Each delivery was accompanied by a letter purportedly signed by Elisabeth Fritzl saying she could not support the child because she already had others to care for.

The trio went to school as normal, seemingly unaware that their mother and three other siblings (a girl of 19, and boys at 18 and five) were trapped underground.

Neither neighbours nor social services appear to have had any inkling, either.

"They had a swimming pool in the garden, we would hear them laughing the three of them," said one neighbour.

Another backed up the story of the babies on the doorstep, adding: "(Rosemarie) always looked after the kids so well, taking them to school. We said 'it's incredible what she manages to do at her age'."

Elisabeth Fritzl told investigators her mother knew nothing about the sexual abuse she had endured since the age of 11, some seven years before she was locked away.

Austria's most notable prior case was that of Natascha Kampusch, locked up by a man in the basement of a house for eight years before she escaped.

Kampusch was 10 when Wolfgang Priklopil abducted her on her way to school in 1998. The 44-year-old kidnapper killed himself hours after she fled, throwing himself under a train.

Three young girls were also locked up for seven years by their mentally ill mother near Linz.

 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Austrian_admits_abusing_daughter/articleshow/2991777.cms

 

[ClearCase_guy]

Kaspar Hauser, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

[Jeff Head]

This guy must have been one of Hitler’s close, younger cousins. How utterly sickening and disgusting.

[Charlespg]

Let me guess his first name is Adolf.
/s

[netmilsmom]

>>Sunday’s developments recalled another case that shocked Austrians in the summer of 2006, when a young woman escaped after being largely confined to a tiny underground dungeon in a quiet Vienna suburb for more than eight years.

Natascha Kampusch was 10 years old when she was kidnapped in Vienna on her way to school in March 1998. Her abductor, Wolfgang Priklopil, threw himself in front of a train just hours after her dramatic escape.

Kampusch, now 20, issued a statement Monday saying she wanted to contact Elisabeth to offer emotional and financial help. <<

God Bless the both of them and the children.

[JamesP81]

WTF!?!

[Politicalmom]

All those who were saying that she could have escaped and she must have been there of her own free will since she didn’t should be ASHAMED of themselves.

[WhatNot]

A true sick twisted freak, death by impaling would be a compassionate way to execute him..

[MrB]

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.

[pandoraou812]

Prayers for Elisabeth Fritzl and her children. This is one of the most terrible stories I have read of.

[Eye On The Left]

Pretty damn sick. It reminds of an article that was posted here a week or so ago about Bill Ayers...

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 couldn’t 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 wouldn’t 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 roommate’s 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

[twigs]

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.

[Albion Wilde]

From the article: "Amstetten is in a state of shock," wrote mayor Herbert Katzengruber on the town's website. "Our thoughts and feelings are with the victims."

Europe has abandoned "prayers" for victims. Sorry, folks, feeeeeelings just don't cut it.

[BillyBoy]

::sigh::

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.