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PerryPeabody
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Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:42 pm |
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Josef Fritzl allowed to comment during Elisabeth's testimony
Incest father to take part in video link with abused daughter
Allan Hall, Berlin
theage.com.au
June 10, 2008
THE daughter of Austrian incest father Josef Fritzl is to testify to police via video link about her 24 years of rape and imprisonment at his hands.
Elisabeth Fritzl will see her father in his prison cell on a TV screen, and he will be able to make comments about her statements if he wishes.
The testimony of 42-year-old Elisabeth about what she endured at his hands will spare her the ordeal of appearing in court when he is finally charged over her rape and imprisonment. The video sessions are timed for July and police hope this will speed up the legal process to see Fritzl, 73, in the dock this year.
Last week police said they doubted the trial could go ahead within the next two years after they were turned down by doctors caring for Elisabeth and her children in their requests for an interview.
It was also reported that 73-year-old Fritzl had lost weight and his health was suffering in jail. He already has a heart condition and last month was admitted to hospital, fuelling speculation he might try to evade justice by claiming he was too ill to go on trial.
After Elisabeth learned that her father could not be tried until she gave her statement, she insisted on speaking to police and now a series of appointments have been set to take place in early July.
A hospital insider told Austrian media: "She was determined to make sure he did not escape on a technicality or get freed on bail if the proceedings were to drag on too long."
Doctors will be on hand at all times to ensure she does not suffer a breakdown as she relives her years of torment.
The statements will be taken from Elisabeth in a room where she will be connected with a video link-up with her father as well as prosecutors and the defence lawyer. Questions can be asked from prosecution and defence as well as by the judge, and the testimony will then be used when Fritzl goes on trial.
The children who lived with her in the cellar will be quizzed at a later date and may not be included in the trial. Prosecutors have said it is the evidence of Elisabeth that is most crucial to their case.
One of the children, daughter Kerstin, 19, is still in a coma. Stefan, 18, and Felix, 5, were locked in the cellar with her while siblings Lisa, 16, Monika, 14, and Alexander, 12, were taken upstairs by Fritzl as babies and brought up by him and his wife, Rosemarie.
Rosemarie is with Elisabeth and the children in the clinic. It is unclear if she will be called to testify against her husband.
A court spokesman said as a result of the prosecution statements, Fritzl had been remanded until August when he would again have to face another hearing to confirm if he should be further detained.
A psychological profile of Fritzl will be completed shortly before Elisabeth is due to give her videotaped testimony.
Police say 100 people have been interviewed in connection with the case, which was exposed on April 27 when police arrested Elisabeth on suspicion of child abandonment when she visited Kerstin in an Amstetten hospital.
Elisabeth was released by Fritzl as Kerstin hovered close to death with multiple organ failures. She has been on a life support machine ever since.
After she was assured that she would never have to see her father again, she told officers the story of her ordeal, which was backed up when they visited the house where she had been kept prisoner and found her cellar prison.
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| tulsad
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Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:10 pm |
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Thank you, Perry - this is really significant.
After Elisabeth learned that her father could not be tried until she gave her statement, she insisted on speaking to police and now a series of appointments have been set to take place in early July.
I have so much admiration for Elisabeth; her resolve is just phenomenal. I hope that everyone sends her healing, strength and good feelings in some manner - it might help.
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| tulsad
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Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:14 pm |
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Here is the link to the Refs "Light A Candle" page; the page was set up with CRL as Ref's inspiration. If you'd like to light a candle for Elisabeth and her family, just click the link.
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| Myra Manes
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Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:20 pm |
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| tulsad wrote: | Thank you, Perry - this is really significant.
After Elisabeth learned that her father could not be tried until she gave her statement, she insisted on speaking to police and now a series of appointments have been set to take place in early July.
I have so much admiration for Elisabeth; her resolve is just phenomenal. I hope that everyone sends her healing, strength and good feelings in some manner - it might help. |
I do too..........I hope she's okay during her testimony ......
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| olympic
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Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:55 pm |
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well they could set him up in elizabeth's former quarters shackled to a bed, with a muzzle.......install some good subwoofers, and put earphones on his head, volume turned on maximum as he listens to elizabeth's testimony.......the jail cell will really have no effect on the old beast, he doesn't feel he has done anything wrong. 
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