Josef Fritzl: Austrian Man Who Kept Sex-Slave Daughter Captive for 24 Yrs: Daughter to Testify Via Videotape

Rosemarie and Josef Frizl, parents of Elisabeth


Josef Fritzl, the 73-yr-old Austrian father who kept his daughter as a sex-slave in a cellar prison for 24 yrs, sits in prison awaiting his daughter's video taped statement.

Doctors have advised that Elisabeth, Fritzl's daughter, who bore her father seven children after 24 years of alleged imprisonment and rape, is not ready to withstand any type of contact with her father.

According to The Mirror, Elisabeth must give a video taped statement in order for Fritzl to stand trial "as soon as possible". This type of testimony, via video, allows Elisabeth to not have to attend a trial and testify in front of her father. It was only after police assured Elisabeth that she'd "never have to face her father "again" that Elisabeth broke down and told authorities that she and three of her children had been imprisoned beneath the Fritzl family home for 24 years. Three other children were taken by Frizl upstairs and raised by him and his wife. Friztl had Elisabeth write notes claiming she was okay but that she could not care for the children who were toddlers at the time. One child died shortly after birth. Fritzl was the midwife for all 7 babies born by Elisabeth in her's cellar of horror.

Elisabeth and three of her children might never have been released if not for the illness of her 19-yr-old daughter Kerstin. For some reason Fritzl allowed Kerstin to be treated at a local hospital after she became critically ill back in Mid-April. Doctors induced a coma when Kerstin's organs began to fail. She remained in critical condition in her artificially induced sleep until June. Doctors now say Kerstin is not only awake but is up and "walking".

Doctor's had found a letter in one of Kerstin's pockets from Elisabeth imploring them to take care of her daughter. A plea was issued by the hospital for the "mother" of Kerstin to please come forward as Kerstin was critically ill. Fritzl then allowed Elisabeth to leave her 24-yr prison to travel to the hospital. It was then that the police intercepted the two. When the authorities guaranteed that
Kerstin would never have to "face" her father again she broke down and told her gruesome tale, how her father had drugged then handcuffed her then locked her into his makeshift prison cellar.

Fritzl now sits in prison awaiting charges. As soon as doctors determine Elisabeth is able to testify she will "face" her father via a TV screen as he listens to her statement.

By LBG

Source - The Mirror - Elisabeth's Fritzl's Evidence delayed because doctors say she's not ready to face her captor

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Austrian Father Who Kept Daughter as Sex Slave for 24 Yrs: Update

Mauer Hospital, where 19-yr-old Kristen is undergoing treatment

New details have emerged about the father who kept his daughter locked away in a cellar-dungeon for 24 years. Details which reveal a man whose early life was dominated by the ravages of World War II and a propensity for sex crimes and who has now attracted the attention of "lovestruck" female fans.

The story of 73-yr-old Austrian Josef Fritzl, the father who locked his own daughter away in a secret cellar prison for 24 years and bore him 7 children has gripped the world. No one could fathom how a father could be so cruel and inhumane to not only imprison his own daughter beneath the family home but to also continuously rape her for a period of 24 years, to impregnate her with seven children and who also split up the children acting as an insane King Soloman. Three of the seven children were chosen by Fritzl to be deposited upstairs on the front doorstoop as toddlers with "notes" from their mother Elisabeth. The notes asked her mother and father to help raise the babies as she was "unable to". One child, a boy, died shortly after birth. Fritzl is alleged to have acted as midwife in all seven births.

All this came to light when the oldest of the seven children, 19-yr-old Kristen, became desperately ill. Fritzl allowed the girl, who had never seen the light of day, to be brought to the local hospital where she lapsed into a coma. Doctors issued a plea to have the girl's mother come to the hospital as the physicians were baffled by the girl's illness and had also found a note in one of her pockets from Elisabeth, begging the doctors to please help her daughter.

Doctors and the authorities were suspicious of Fritzl and his relationship to the desperately ill girl. For some reason Fritzl allowed Elisabeth to leave the cellar prison to go to the hospital. It was then that the story of Josef Fritzl's 24 year reign of terror began to unfold and Fritzl was arrested. Fritzl remains under arrest at Austria's Sankt Poelten prison.

Kristen has been kept in an artificially induced coma since she was brought to the hospital on April 19. Doctors have decided that her condition has improved enough to allow them to begin the "wake-up" process. The doctors are unable to estimate when Kristen will fully emerge from her artificially drug induced "sleep". Kristen's mother Elisabeth is said to be undergoing psychiatric counseling.

Josef Fritzl's past, of growing up during World War II without a father and as a young man who was a sexual predator in the 1960's have come to light.

Read more of Austrian Father Josef Fritzl Who Kept Sex Slave Daughter: WWII, Sex Predator, and Love Letters at DBKP.com

By LBG

Source - Health - Photophobia
Source - Mail on Sunday - Cellar monster Josef Fritzl receives hundreds of love letters
Source - Independent - Fritzl victim comes out of coma a month after escape
Source - Austrian News

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Austrian Father Who Held Sex-Slave Daughter Captive: Police Find More Secret Rooms

Josef Fritzl, Man who kept daughter sex-slave captive 24 years

New details have emerged in the story of the Austrian man who held his daughter captive as a sex-slave for 24 years in the family's secret cellar-prison. Police now say there are more hidden unsealed rooms yet to be investigated in Josef Fritzl's cellar-prison of horror.

According to the Daily Mail, the cops have completed an investigation of the cellar-prison rooms where Fritzl kept his daughter and three of her seven children born to him, captive. The cops claim there are even more hidden rooms that are still sealed that they plan to investigate. They also say Fritzl moved an astounding 200 tons of dirt carving out the secret cellar-prison.

Fritzl had obtained a permit from the city of Amstetten in 1978 where the Fritzl family home, a concrete villa that contained 8 flats is located. Fritzl was also given a government grant which he used to finance his "project". The government grants were given out for people who wished to build Cold-War nuclear fallout bunkers. Fritzl used the funds to build a hidden fortified bunker used to imprison his 19-yr.-old daughter Elisabeth beginning in 1984. Elisabeth was to remain in the windowless series of rooms for 24 years, bearing her father seven children, one child purportedly died shortly after death. Fritzl is accused of tossing the baby boy's body into a furnace.

Fritzl's nuclear fallout shelter was approved for a room the size of 20 square meters. According to investigators when Fritzl drugged his daughter and locked her into the secret cellar-prison in 1984 there was only one room. Elisabeth was chained up with a dog collar and leash for the first nine months.

Read more Austrian Father Who Kept Sex-Slave Daughter Captive for 24 yrs: Police Baffled Over Constuction at DBKP.com


By LBG

Source - Daily Mail - Sniffer dogs begin new search of Fritzl home as police reveal father moved 200 tons of earth to build incest cellar
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