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PerryPeabody
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Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:02 am |
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This seems to be only about the baby that died:
Questioning of Fritzl incest victim due
Associated Press
2 hours ago
VIENNA, Austria (AP) — Questioning of an incest victim held in a cellar for 24 years is set to start later this month and will involve a doctor to determine how one of the seven babies she had with her father died, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
St. Poelten prosecutor Gerhard Sedlacek also said authorities hope to have formal charges against Josef Fritzl ready within a few months, which would allow a trial to start before the end of the year.
Fritzl has told investigators he fathered his daughter Elizabeth's seven children; three raised in a cellar at his home in Amstetten, three brought up above ground, and one who died in infancy, officials said. DNA tests confirmed he is the biological father of the six surviving children.
Authorities say Fritzl confessed to incinerating the corpse of the dead baby, identified as one of a pair of twins born in 1997. He could face murder charges if it turns out he was responsible for its death, Sedlacek said.
Sedlacek says Elisabeth's questioning by a judge will take place in a special room at an undisclosed location. Her answers will be transmitted via video to the defense and she will not have to face her father unless she specifically requests to do so.
At least two days are set aside for the questioning, Sedlacek said.
Fritzl and his wife raised three of the children he fathered with his daughter after Fritzl claimed Elisabeth left them at the doorstep of the family's home. Authorities say the other three were confined underground.
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Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:05 am |
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Man, I can't get this freak out of my head! That poor family.....I so HOPE Elizabeth and her children will eventually be able to live normal lives.
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| PerryPeabody
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Lawyer to question Fritzl girl [about death of baby]
news24.com
09/07/2008 16:40 - (SA)
Vienna - Austrian incest victim Elisabeth Fritzl will be questioned by a public prosecutor for the first time in mid-July, after her doctors gave the green light, a spokesperson of the prosecution said on Wednesday.
The 42-year-old woman had been incarcerated and repeatedly raped by her father Josef for more than 24 years.
During her time in the dungeon below her family home in Amstetten, Elisabeth Fritzl gave birth to seven children, one of whom died shortly after birth.
A medical expert specialised in the health of newborn babies would also attend the interview, Sedlacek said, "in order to ask questions about the state of the newborn."
If judicial authorities determine that Josef Fritzl, 73, neglected to provide medical care for the dead child, he might be charged with murder, in addition to rape and illegal restraint.
Josef Fritzl remains in prison until the trial which is expected later this year.
In April, Elisabeth Fritzl and her children were freed after she convinced her father to bring her seriously ill daughter Kerstin to hospital.
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| PerryPeabody
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Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:33 am |
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Josef Fritzl faces 10 years in prison for Austrian cellar crimes
By Andreas Sam, in Vienna
telegraph.co.uk
Last Updated: 4:59PM BST 09/07/2008
Josef Fritzl could face only 10 years in prison for locking his daughter in a cellar dungeon for 24 years and forcing her to bear seven of his children.
Fritzl, 73, has already confessed to imprisoning his daughter Elisabeth, 42, in the cellar in his home in Amstetten, Austria, and fathering her seven children.
He is facing potential charges of rape, incarceration, incest and manslaughter, as one of the children died shortly after birth in 1997 and Fritzl burned his body in an incinerator.
However, unlike in Britain and America, the Austrian penal code does not allow for cumulated convictions, meaning Fritzl will only serve the punishment for the offence that carries the longest prison sentence.
And according to prosecutors, manslaughter and the rape charges will be difficult to prove due to the elapse of time and lack of evidence.
The only charge Fritzl is certain to face is incarceration, for having kept his daughter and their children in the dank cellar for 24 years, an offence that can only be sentenced with 10 years in prison in Austria.
A spokesman for the prosecution said: "Manslaughter will be very difficult to prove as there is no forensic or any other kind of evidence available since the suspected crime happened many years ago.
"Such charges would require evidence that the suspect acted with premeditation and that he knew there was danger of the newborn dying after birth."
"The charges of rape will also be difficult to prove, due to the absence of any objective evidence and would therefore probably only be based on the statement of the victim, who has not yet given evidence to the prosecutors."
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| PerryPeabody
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Josef Fritzl going stir crazy in cell
telegraph.co.uk
Last Updated: 6:18PM BST 10/07/2008
Josef Fritzl, who locked his daughter in a cellar dungeon for 24 years, has asked permission to leave his prison cell after admitting he can no longer stand being cooped up.
Fritzl, 73, kept daughter Elisabeth locked in a windowless cellar in Amstetten, Austria, and fathered her seven children before being caught by police. Three of the children had never seen daylight before being released.
Now, after just two months of incarceration and despite his fear of being attacked by fellow prisoners, he has demanded his right to 30 minutes exercise every day.
Fritzl has now twice had half-hour walks, protected from other inmates by a close guard of prison officers.
Prison spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Erich Huber-Guensthofer said: "Mr Fritzl is accommodated in a cell for two and recently he has made use of his right to go outside for half an hour per day.
"He usually sits there watching television all day, especially news programmes about him," said one prison source. "He's terrified that someone will attack him or try to kill him."
Prosecutors are about to interview Elisabeth, 42, and expect to put her father on trial in September.
Fritzl has been making copious notes ready for the interview, as he will be present when Elisabeth speaks via a video link up and will be allowed to ask questions via his lawyer.
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Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:55 pm |
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Josef Fritzl's daughter, Elisabeth, gives evidence against him for first time
timesonline.co.uk
July 11, 2008
The daughter of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian incest offender, has given evidence against her father to court authorities for the first time this week.
Fritzl, 73, a retired engineer, incarcerated and sexually abused his daughter Elisabeth, 42, in a purpose-built concrete dungeon beneath his home in the town of Amstetten for more than 24 years and fathered seven children with her. One of the children died shortly after birth and Fritzl burned its body in an incinerator.
The case was revealed on April 26 but doctors treating Elisabeth and her family have only now allowed the first questioning to take place, with her condition said to have dramatically improved after two months of intensive psychotherapy and medical care.
Elisabeth has now revealed details of her ordeal for the first time to Judge Andrea Hummer, who will try the case against her father. She was questioned only in the presence of the judge and her lawyer, while prosecutors and the legal representative of her father were able to ask questions via video-link from a separate room.
The hearing will continue into next week and possibly beyond that. Elisabeth's two oldest children, who spent their entire lives in the cellar, Kerstin 19, and Stefan, 18, will also be questioned by the court as soon as doctors give their approval.
Their testimonies will be recorded and presented to the court during the trial, expected to take place by November this year, in order to honour Elisabeth's demand that she and her children never be confronted with their father again.
Fritzl has given up on his right to follow the questioning of his family and even ask them questions, together with the prosecutor and his lawyer, via video-link.
His lawyer, Rudolf Mayer, said: “My client will definitely not attend the questioning.”
Details of the testimonies of Elisabeth Fritzl and her children will not be made known to the public. The trial, which will be scheduled as soon as prosecutors complete the charges after the testimonies of the family, is also expected to be closed to the public. Under Austrian law, a jury of eight will decide on whether Fritzl is guilty of the charges, and they will then confer with a panel of three judges to determine his sentence.
Fritzl selected three of the children to live upstairs with him and his wife Rosemarie, 68, while the other three were forced to live with their mother in the subterranean dungeon where they were born.
However, earlier this week it emerged that Fritzl could be facing only a ten-year prison term, as Austrian law, unlike British law, does not allow for cumulated convictions. That means even if Fritzl is found guilty of multiple crimes, he will only effectively serve one punishment, for the offence that carries the longest prison sentence.
Fritzl is facing potential charges of manslaughter for the newborn that died, as well as rape, coercion, deprivation of freedom and incest. But prosecutors told The Times that since the baby died in 1997, the manslaughter charges would be “extremely difficult” to prove. Even the rape charges, which carry a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison, could be impossible to probe because of a lack of forensic evidence.
It is therefore assumed that manslaughter will not be included in the charge at all, which means that the only charge that is certain to be proved in court is deprivation of freedom, a crime that can only be punished with ten years in prison under Austrian law.
Meanwhile, Elisabeth and her children Kerstin, 19, Stefan, 18, Lisa, 15, Monika, 14, Alexander 12, and Felix, five, have been returning to normal life with the help of a team of doctors and therapists. One of the daughters is said to have attended a camping excursion with her friends, while her brother Felix was being given swimming lessons by the medical staff at a pool in the hospital grounds.
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| PerryPeabody
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Josef Fritzl's children slowly recover after Austria cellar ordeal
telegraph.co.ul
Last Updated: 7:50PM BST 11/07/2008
One of the Austrian children born in a cellar to Josef Fritzl has attended a summer camp incognito as the family slowly recovers.
Fritzl locked his daughter Elisabeth underground for 24 years and forced her to bear him seven children, three of whom spent their whole lives in his improvised dungeon before they were rescued in April.
The family have spent the past 12 weeks receiving therapy in a special clinic near their hometown of Amstetten, where their condition is said to be improving.
Lisa, his 15-year-old daughter who was one of three children raised above ground with Fritzl's public family, recently went camping under a false name.
A local radio station said she spent four carefree days at the camp alongside 4,000 other teenagers.
Five-year-old Felix, who was brought up underground, has meanwhile been learning to swim.
Medical experts have pronounced the children - and their mother Elisabeth, 42 - in "relatively good health" considering they spent so long in an almost airless cellar deprived of any sunlight.
The clinic where they are staying is carefully protected against the swarms of paparazzi photographers who are trying to capture Fritzl's victims on film.
"Fortunately, everything is going very well," said Christoph Herbst, a lawyer representing the victims. He said they were spending some time each day trying to answer the hundreds of letters sent by well-wishers from around the world.
Meanwhile, Elisabeth Fritzl has been questioned for the first time by the judge who will preside over the trial of her father.
She gave evidence about her ordeal for the first time this week.
Judge Andrea Hummer questioned the victim in the presence of her lawyer and the state prosecutor, while Mr Fritzl's lawyer was allowed to follow the hearing and ask questions via video-link.
Elisabeth's oldest children, Kerstin 19, and Stefan, 18, are also expected to give evidence in the same way, as soon as the doctors treating the family decide they have sufficiently recovered.
Their testimonies will be recorded and presented at the trial, due to start in the autumn, so they do not to have to face their father.
Fritzl, 73, a retired engineer and property developer, reportedly waived his right to attend the questioning of his family with his lawyer and pose questions via video link.
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Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:47 am |
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Josef Fritzl: Daughter Elisabeth and children moved to secret location
By Ben Farmer
telegraph.co.uk
Last Updated: 11:48AM BST 16/07/2008
The daughter of Josef Fritzl, who was kept imprisoned in a cellar by her father for 24 years, has been moved to a secret location to continue her recovery.
Elizabeth Fritzl, 42, who was forced to bear seven children by her father, had been receiving treatment in a mental health clinic since her release in April.
Tight security around the Amstetten Mauer clinic in Austria had been costing the local council several thousand pounds a day to prevent journalists from approaching or photographing the family.
It has now been reported the family were moved from the clinic three weeks ago after doctors decided it was not a suitable place for healthy children.
Miss Fritzl and her children Kerstin, 19, Stefan, 18, Lisa, 15, Monika, 14, Alexander 12, and Felix, five, as well as their grandmother, Fritzl's wife Rosemarie, 68, are said to have improved rapidly in recent weeks.
One source at the clinic said: "When they came here it was hard even for senior staff to get in – security was so tight. You had to show an identity card and wait to be searched. Now it's all back to normal now that they have gone."
Dr Bernhard Kepplinger who is in charge of the section of the clinic caring for the family said: "There were five security guards here a day. They were paid for by the local government. There were also police patrols here."
Asked if Elisabeth was still on the hospital site with her family, he said: "I am not allowed to disclose personal details."
The family lawyer, Dr Christoph Herbst, also refused to discuss the family's whereabouts. He said: "I am not allowed to say where they are – I can neither confirm nor deny whether they are at Amstetten Mauer."
Miss Fritzl is continuing to give videotaped evidence against her father in closed session with a judge ahead of a trial in the Autumn.
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Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:52 am |
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Josef Fritzl's children may refuse to testify against their father
From Times Online
July 17, 2008
Bojan Pancevski
The case against Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned his daughter in his basement for 24 years, has suffered a further blow today after his children refused to testify against their father.
Fritzl, 73, is accused of incarcerating his daughter Elisabeth, 42, in a purpose-built concrete bunker in the cellar of his home in the town of Amstetten, where he fathered seven children with her.
One of the children, a baby boy called Michael, died shortly after birth and Fritzl burned his body in an incinerator.
Elisabeth Fritzl has already finished giving evidence to court authorities. While the details of her testimony have not been made known to the public, it is believed that she accused her father of rape and physical abuse, as well as responsibility for the death of her newborn child, who is thought to have died three days after birth because of the severe conditions in the dank cellar bunker.
But prosecutors told The Times that Ms Fritzl's two adult children, who were supposed to provide key testimonies against their father and support their mother's allegations, are likely to refuse to give evidence.
The spokesman for the prosecutors, Gerhard Sedlacek, said: “We still have not fixed a date for the questioning of the two adult children but it now emerges that they could make use of their right not to speak to the authorities and refuse to give evidence against their father.
“The matter will be discussed between their lawyer and the judge in charge, but it has been suggested that they decline to give any statement.”
Fritzl, a retired engineer, has already made a partial confession and is facing charges of manslaughter for the baby that died, as well as rape, abuse, deprivation of freedom and incest.
However, prosecutors told The Times that the first two charges would be very difficult to prove because of a lack of forensic evidence, and that they were relying on the testimonies of the children to strengthen the charges against Fritzl.
If his adult children refuse to give evidence, the case against him would be weakened further, making it even more likely he would face a ten-year prison term, as Austrian law, unlike British law, does not allow for cumulated convictions.
That means even if Fritzl is found guilty of multiple crimes, he will only effectively serve one punishment, for the offence that carries the longest prison sentence, which in this case is likely to be deprivation of freedom.
The adult children of Fritzl and Elisabeth, Kerstin, 19, and Stefan, 18, were not allowed to leave their cellar and were imprisoned for the whole of their lives, together with their mother and brother Felix, five. They were only freed by police on April 26.
The other three siblings, Lisa, 15, Monuka [sic], 14, and Alexander, 12, were allowed to live with Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie, 68.
After two months of medical and psychiatric treatment in a local clinic, the family hasve now been moved to an apartment at a secret location provided to them by the state in a scheme similar to a British witness protection programme.
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Same story in telegraph.co.uk by Vienna correspondent: http://tinyurl.com/5t2sxz
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Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:03 am |
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Josef Fritzl's daughter Elisabeth finishes giving evidence
17/07/2008
mirror.co.uk
Incest victim Elisabeth Fritzl has finished talking about her 24-year ordeal to a judge.
The taped testimony means Elisabeth, 42, will not face her father in court this autumn.
She has said she never wants to see Josef, 73, again.
Elisabeth told how she was drugged and locked in a cellar aged 18 and repeatedly raped beneath the family home in Amstetten, Austria.
She bore Fritzl seven children, one of whom he burned in a stove after it died.
Legal experts are deciding if Fritzl can be charged with murder over the baby's death.
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State prosecution denies reports Fritzl faces murder
Austrian Times
State prosecutors in Austria have rubbished reports that incest monster Josef Fritzl will face murder charges.
Austrian tabloid 'Österreich' reported on Wednesday that the 74-year-old would face charges of murder over the death of one of the seven children he fathered with his own daughter, Elisabeth, following statements she gave about her ordeal.
But speaking to Austrian Times, state prosecution spokesman Gerhard Sedlacek said: "I don't know what that report is based on. The truth is that the investigation is not over yet. We are waiting for a medical report from experts on whether the deceased baby would have lived if it had received medical help after it was born.
"Of course it is very important for us what the victims say. But this is not the only factor which decides on charges. The expert's report matters as well."
'Österreich' reported that Elisabeth had said in interviews that the baby would have been able to survive with the support of medical experts but that her father refused to get any help for the child.
Elisabeth has been testifying of her ordeal at the hands of her 74-year-old father Josef in closed videotaped sessions with a judge.
Prosecutors, her lawyer and the lawyer of her father watched them in separate rooms.
Her father was given the opportunity to be present with his attorney but he declined.
Elisabeth detailed how her abuse began when she was 11 and how at 18 she was drugged and incarcerated in a secret cellar beneath the family home in Amstetten where her father raped her repeatedly.
She bore him seven children in the darkness, one of whom died three days after birth and was burned by Fritzl in the wood-burning stove of the house.
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Something strange seems to be happening with Fritzl news. Each day I search for new articles and for the last several days all of the "in-the-last-24-hours" articles have been old articles or silly (and tasteless) spoofs. I don't know why.
When I find something that is truly new news, I'll put it up.
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Sorry if I'm responding with something that's already been discussed here but I haven't been following these threads so much since I've been keeping up with the story on my own.
But didn't I read recently that Elizabeth was outraged when she recently discovered how much the press had been covering this story and was threatening to sue everyone? Perhaps that's the reason for the dearth of new info.
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| PerryPeabody
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| dithers wrote: | Sorry if I'm responding with something that's already been discussed here but I haven't been following these threads so much since I've been keeping up with the story on my own.
But didn't I read recently that Elizabeth was outraged when she recently discovered how much the press had been covering this story and was threatening to sue everyone? Perhaps that's the reason for the dearth of new info. |
dithers-
That was a while ago and, if I remember correctly, was a one time article (most that have any substance go on and on and on until they reach from England to Zanzibar to India and then some).
This is something different, I think, because the old articles are going up again and being rehashed over and over. I don't know if it has anything to do with MSNBC's showing of "Secrets of the Austrian Cellar" this weekend (which seems very much to be like an Australian reenactment that was shown earlier) or there is just simply not a speck of news and summer is "Silly News Time".
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Josef Fritzl trial to be heard in secret
6/08/2008
The full horror of life in Josef Fritzl's incest dungeon may never be known because his trial will be heard in secret.
Daughter Elisabeth, 42, will testify against 73-year-old Fritzl behind closed doors to protect the six surviving children she bore him.
Elisabeth, who was imprisoned as a sex slave for 24 years below the family home, has already given a full statement to Austrian prosecutors about her ordeal. But her children have not.
Prosecutors are investigating whether it is possible to spare them the ordeal and if Elisabeth's testimony is enough to lock up her father for the rest of his life.
The decision to allow all of the evidence to be presented in secret means that the full extent of Fritzl's crimes may never be known to the public.
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Josef Fritzl's daughter Elisabeth returns to cellar dungeon for first time
By Andy Rudd
Mirror.co.uk 13/08/2008
The daughter of evil cellar pervert Josef Fritzl has secretly returned to her dungeon home along with three of her children, it was reported today.
It was the first time since her rescue that Elisabeth has set foot back inside the house of horrors having been imprisoned there for 24 years.
Austrian newspaper Kurier claims that Elisabeth and her three children Felix, five, Stefan, 18 and Kerstin, 19, visited the dungeon in order to show police exactly how and where they lived.
Their commentary will then be used by police who are gathering evidence ready for the start of Josef Fritzl’s trial next month.
Last week Elisabeth and her six children also visited police officers who protected them after their release from hospital.
They gave them a cake, a gift basket including several bottles of wine and a thank you poster.
Police chief Karl Gschoepf said it was "a really nice gesture,” adding “we were touched”.
The handwritten thank you poster had written on it: "During the initial, most difficult period you gave us a lot of strength and security…..We will always fondly remember you and hope that our contact won't stop."
Monster Fritzl fathered seven children with Elisabeth while keeping her a prisoner in his cellar in Amstetten, Austria. One baby died.
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oh wow.
how strong of each of them. I am sure it was one of the hardest things to do, entering that hell hole again.
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Elizabeth Fritzl rejects offer of new identity
Incest victim Elizabeth Fritzl has rejected offers by Austrian authorities to give her family a new identity.
telegraph.co.uk
By Jessica Salter
Last Updated: 7:40AM BST 18 Aug 2008
Elizabeth Fritzl has rejected offers by authorities to give her family a new identity Ms Fritzl, who spent 24 years incarcerated and sexually abused by her father Josef, 74, in a purpose-built dungeon beneath his home, has said she will just change her surname.
She will live with her six children in a secret location an hour away from where she was kept a prisoner in Amstetten. The family will move out of the Amstetten-Mauer psychiatric clinic after their father's trial in December.
A source at the clinic was reported as saying Ms Fritzl "knows people will put two and two together".
They said: "It'd be impossible to transform seven individual profiles unless they moved to the other side of the world."
Ms Fritzl was drugged and locked in a cellar under the family home by her father when she was 18. He raped her over the next 24 years, making her have seven children. The eldest three – Lisa, now 16, Monica, 14, and Alexander, 11 – were taken out of the dungeon by Fritzl to live in the house in Amstetten and brought up by his wife
He told her that their daughter had run off to join a cult, but had returned to dump the kids, then fled again.
Three other children were kept in the dungeon and another died soon after birth in 1997 and Fritzl burned the body in the boiler.
Fritzl, a retired engineer and property developer, is facing a string of charges including manslaughter, rape, abuse and incest.
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ok im breaking the no discussion rules, but two points
1. im glad she doesn't go for a new identity, i think its important she not be ashamed or feel like she should be of whom she is.
2. is the "living with her 6 children" a typo? i cant see the 3 upstairs kids wanting to live with someone they don't know who is their birth mother. they have lives and friends etc.
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| victims cry wrote: | ok im breaking the no discussion rules, but two points
1. im glad she doesn't go for a new identity, i think its important she not be ashamed or feel like she should be of whom she is.
2. is the "living with her 6 children" a typo? i cant see the 3 upstairs kids wanting to live with someone they don't know who is their birth mother. they have lives and friends etc. |
It's the article verbatim. I'll keep looking to see what other outlets say.
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Fritzl's victims face life in care
Allan Hall, Berlin
August 21, 2008
SHOCKING details of the psychological and physical damage suffered by the Austrian incest family who grew up in a squalid dungeon emerged this week, suggesting they may need therapy for the rest of their lives.
It has been revealed that Kerstin Fritzl, 19, tore her hair out in clumps and ripped her dresses to shreds in the secret cellar she shared with her two brothers and mother Elisabeth.
In her frustration at spending all her life in a concrete basement of less than 60 square metres, she stuffed the dresses down the toilet, causing it to spill sewage into their living space.
Starved of vitamins, sunshine, fresh air, exercise and normal human stimulation, she plunged into a life-threatening illness in April that became her key to freedom.
Her brother, Stefan, 18, still cannot walk properly. At 172.7 centimetres, he was forced to permanently stoop in the cellar, which was 167.6 centimetres in height.
His motor responses are awry, he feels giddy if he walks for any length of time, and doctors fear he may have prolonged spinal trouble.
Together with their brother, Felix, 6, and mother, Elisabeth, 42, they are being tended to by a team of specialists at a psychiatric clinic not far from the house in Amstetten where Elisabeth's father, Josef, 74, locked his daughter up 24 years ago and raped her repeatedly.
Altogether, he fathered seven children by her, three of whom he removed from the cellar to bring up with his wife, Rosemarie, in the house above. A seventh child died when he was three days old and was burned by Fritzl in the stove used to heat the house.
The three "upstairs" children are also at the clinic. Their psychiatric problems are mainly due to anger and resentment at their seemingly normal world being suddenly turned on its head.
Kerstin was finally taken to a local hospital in April. Her terrible condition so appalled doctors that they alerted police, and the macabre reign of Josef Fritzl ended. For weeks, Kerstin hovered close to death. She is out of danger, but suffering the kind of post-traumatic stress disorder that often afflicts soldiers.
Hospital sources revealed how the slightest everyday occurrence — "a door closing, a light going off, a room that she feels is too small" — plunges her into panic attacks.
She, like her brother and mother, daily takes a course of mood- and emotion-altering drugs to buoy her and blot out the terrible memories of her life spent underground, where she and Stefan had to listen to their father-grandfather rape their mother in the darkness.
"They are suffering far more than was previously thought," reported one German newspaper this week. Only Felix, it is hoped, may be capable of forgetting his past.
Their precarious mental state is one reason prosecutors do not think it a good idea for them to testify at Fritzl's trial, scheduled for December. They believe a taped deposition by Elisabeth in July will suffice. Prosecutors have not yet decided what charges to lay against Fritzl to ensure he never walks free.
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Josef Fritzl to face manslaughter charges
The Austrian incest offender Josef Fritzl is likely to face manslaughter charges following a breakthrough in the four-month investigation against him.
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By Our Foreign Staff
Last Updated: 11:47AM BST 04 Sep 2008
Due to the elapse of time and the lack of forensic evidence, prosecutors had feared that they would be unable to support charges of manslaughter for one of his children, Michael, who died shortly after birth in 1997 and whose body Fritzl burned in an incinerator.
But after commissioning a neonatologist, a doctor specialising in newborns, to try and determine whether Fritzl could have been aware that the baby's life was in danger and knowingly accepted the risk of his death, the prosecution now believes it has enough evidence to proceed with manslaughter charges.
The neonatologist's confidential findings were leaked to local press and indicate that Fritzl must have been aware that the baby was severely ill but did nothing to prevent his inevitable death.
The expert also found that the newborn could have survived if he had received medical care, the Austrian magazine, News, reported.
Fritzl, 73, a retired engineer, has partially admitted to incarcerating and sexually abusing his daughter Elisabeth, 42, for 24 years in a subterranean dungeon beneath his house in the town of Amstetten.
She was forced to bear seven of his children, three of which were allowed to live with Fritzl and his wife in their upstairs apartment, while the other three were condemned to dwell in the dank cellar with their mother, never seeing the light of day until they were released by police on April 26.
The neonatologist's report to the court said the baby was born with a "severe illness", the symptoms of which were breathing problems, which were "clearly recognisable" as "life threatening" even to a layman, and were worsening by the hour, according to News.
"Josef Fritzl must have known that the child would die without adequate medical treatment," the News reported the neonatologist as saying.
The breakthrough in the investigation means that, if the jury accepts the expert's findings and declares Fritzl guilty of manslaughter, he could face a maximum sentence of lifetime imprisonment.
The charges are expected to be completed by the end of the autumn and the trial is to take place in November.
Meanwhile, the three incest children who had a normal life with Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie, 69, are unable to return to school due to the immense interest by international press reporters, who besieged the schools in the area expecting the arrival of Lisa, 15, Monika, 14 and Alexander, 12.
A school authorities spokesperson said that due to the pressure from the media the children would be receiving private tuition at their home at a secret location close to the Amstetten hospital where they had been receiving psychological counselling, despite earlier reports that they would be returning to school.
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Thank you so much for all the updates. 
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My pleasure.
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Elisabeth Fritzl tells of father's cruelty
Philippe Naughton(Reuters)
From Times Online
September 11, 2008
Josef Fritzl: his daughter described him as ’all-powerful’
Elisabeth Fritzl has spoken for the first time about the horrors she and her children were forced to endure while imprisoned by their father in a cellar under the family home in Austria.
The 42-year-old was kept prisoner by Josef Fritzl for almost a quarter of a century, during which time she bore him seven children.
Finally freed from her dungeon in April, Elisabeth has told the judge investigating the case that she was raped up to three times a week by her father and if she tried to resist, her children suffered.
She also alleged that Mr Fritzl threatened to leave her and the children to die in the cellar if they did not follow his commands.
Josef Fritzl may face manslaughter charge
"He was very brutal against me," Elisabeth told judge Andrea Humer in an interview, extracts from which were published in The Sun. "And when I did not agree to have sex, then the kids would suffer. We knew he would kick us or be bad to us."
Elisabeth, her eldest daughter, 19, and two sons now aged 18 and 6, were imprisoned in a concrete bunker underneath the Fritzl family home in Amstetten. Her three other children, two girls now aged 16 and 14 and a boy now aged 12, were chosen by the retired electricial engineer to live upstairs with him and his wife.
Another baby boy she gave birth to in the cellar died soon after being born and was allegedly thrown into a domestic furnace. Prosecutors in Austria hope to charge Mr Fritzl with manslaughter over that death.
The six survivors were only freed after the eldest daughter, Kerstin, collapsed on April 19. She was rushed to hospital after Elisabeth pleaded with her father to let her daughter see a doctor.
In her interview with Ms Humer, Austria's top female judge, Elisabeth said that her father threatened to leave them to rot in the cellar, which had no windows and was sealed by an electronically-locked door.
"He said he could close the door whenever he wanted and then we would soon see how we survived," she said.
The judge asked: "Did you take these threats as real?" Elisabeth replied: "Yes."
Elisabeth also told of how she tried to keep life as normal as possible for her children when their father was not around.
"When he went away we led our own lives," she said. "When he was here it was all silence. He was just all-powerful.
"It was his kind of communication to use rough words. He would be insulting against me and the children.When he was at the table and we were eating and someone was holding their knife wrongly, or did not want to eat, there would be verbal abuse.
"He wouldn't let the kids develop their own personalities. He would not allow the kids to have their own will."
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