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gwen
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Sat Aug 23, 2008 10:49 am |
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Dungeon Incest Victims Will Not Testify in Dad's Trial
Josef Fritzl’s six kids kept for years in an Austrian dungeon will not be forced to testify in his trial, court officials announced Friday.
Wife Rosemarie, 69, will also be spared giving evidence.
Court boss Kurt Leitzenberger said: “They will not give statements. This decision is final.”
When asked what this would mean for the trial, he said: “The picture is almost complete anyway.
“Their statements might have helped us but most of it was clear from the beginning.”
Fritzl’s autumn trial will be held behind closed doors in Sankt Poelten, Austria.
The family’s lawyers warned this week they were too traumatized to give evidence.
Prosecutors insist statements from Fritzl’s daughter Elisabeth, 42 — who was caged as a sex slave for 24 years — will “provide enough evidence”.
But they had hoped her daughter Kerstin, 19, would help convict Fritzl, 74, for murder over the death of Elisabeth’s newborn.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,409325,00.html
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| pax
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Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:01 am |
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Thanks gwen. I wonder what's admissible about what happened to them.
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| gwen
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Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:27 am |
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| pax wrote: | | Thanks gwen. I wonder what's admissible about what happened to them. |
Y/W. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.
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| AC
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Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:33 pm |
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What I do not understand about this is when it came to the children who went upstairs to live, why didn't they talk about their Mom and the living conditions. I don't know, maybe they were to young OR had been threatened.
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| Mariah
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Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:36 pm |
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| AC wrote: | | What I do not understand about this is when it came to the children who went upstairs to live, why didn't they talk about their Mom and the living conditions. I don't know, maybe they were to young OR had been threatened. |
If I remember correctly these children were brought upstair before they could speak.
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| PerryPeabody
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Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:40 pm |
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| Mariah wrote: |
If I remember correctly these children were brought upstair before they could speak. |
That's right; they were infants and presented to Mrs. Fritzl by Mr. Fritzl as having been dropped off on the doorstep by their mother who was living with a cult.
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| AC
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Wed Oct 29, 2008 5:50 pm |
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THANK YOU, Mariah and PP. I guess I missed that.
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