Austrian Man Held Daughter Captive in Cellar as Sex Slave for 24 Years
Posted on April 28, 2008
Absolutely shocking! This freak kept his own daughter locked away in a cellar for 24 years! She had at least 7 children for him! 3 of these children never saw daylight!
Absolutely sickening! I hope justice comes down hard for this one.
She told police she spent years imprisoned in an underground chamber beneath the family home near the eastern town of Amstetten.
Elisabeth Fritzl told detectives she was “regularly abused” by her father and their incestuous relationship produced seven children.
All the children appear to have been born in grim captivity, but investigators said one child, a twin, died shortly after birth. Police said the body was subsequently burned.
Three boys and three girls, now aged between five and 20, survived. Josef Fritzl legally adopted two boys and one girl.
Josef Fritzl is said to have told 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.
According to ORF national television, the mother and five children are now in hospital. All are being treated by a team of psychologists. Reports said the mother was physically frail and badly disturbed by her ordeal.
Authorities were worried about the health of the mother and three of her children.
Yet neither neighbours nor social services appear to have had the slightest inkling.
“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’.”
Police said the case only came to light after one of the girls, 19-year-old Kerstin, was admitted to hospital in a critical condition in mid-April.
Doctors stepped up efforts to find the mother, looking for background medical information, and Josef Fritzl brought his secret offspring into the family home.
He is said to have told his wife they suddenly reappeared.
Elisabeth Fritzl told investigators her mother knew nothing about the sexual abuse she had endured since the age of 11, about seven years before she was locked away.
Authorities found Elisabeth Fritzl and the three underground children yesterday evening local time.
In a cell himself since yesterday, Josef relented and gave police the security access codes to the basement overnight.
Police found several rooms 170cm high equipped with water and a television.
Josef Fritzl had been refusing to answer questions put by detectives, although Gerhard Sedlacek, a prosecution spokesman, said Elisabeth’s accusations of kidnapping and incest are “credible”.
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I was a victim of sexual abuse and justice against my father was never served although in his own way he is paying for what he did to me and my sister. I felt very sad after reading this story but at the same time happy that this monster is going to pay for what he did to his daughter and thier children, at least now they can start to have a normal life, maby if they get the right help and support. It’s amazing too me that noyone knew what was going on , people need to stop turning a blind eye to what’s going on right under there noses and not be afraid to help. I have a blog where i write poetry on sex abuse k30montano@blogspot.com
This is what you call PURE HUMAN TRASH! He isn’t even worth the breath God gave him and I hope he dies and burns in hell for what he did! I don’t see how his wife or other children in the house never got suspicious and went down into the basement to see exactly what he was hiding. I beleive they are all lying about that. I bet the wife, and ther other children in the house were all involved in this torture. I feel so sorry for his daughter and her children and what they went through for all those years. I also feel there is allot more to this story that isn’t being told at the moment. I am sure it will all be known before long once this lady and her children begin to feel free from harm. I bet her mother and syblings are all guilty as well!!!
how can that woman not have known what was going on in her own home??? thast is such a lie. they both deserve the same punishment. life in prison without sunlight or even death for what happened to that poor dead baby. it is pretty cut and dry. hang him!!!