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04-28-2008, 10:11 AM
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I give up. This board is too hard to understand.
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Dad confesses to holding daughter captive 24 years
The Associated Press: Police: Dad confesses to holding daughter captive 24 years
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Police: Dad confesses to holding daughter captive 24 years
By VERONIKA OLEKSYN and WILLIAM J. KOLE ? 1 hour ago
AMSTETTEN, Austria (AP) ? A man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in windowless cell with a soundproofed door and fathering seven children with her, police said Monday.
The man, now 73, also told investigators that he tossed the body of one of the children in an incinerator when the infant died shortly after birth, said Franz Polzer, head of the Lower Austrian Bureau of Criminal Affairs.
"We are being confronted with an unfathomable crime," Interior Minister Guenther Platter said.
The daughter, who is now 42, had been missing since 1984 and was found by police in the town of Amstetten on Saturday evening after police received a tip.
Police on Monday released several photos showing parts of the cramped basement cell, with a small bathroom and a narrow passageway leading to a tiny bedroom. Investigators said an electronic keyless-entry system apparently kept the daughter from escaping from the cell, which was constructed of solid reinforced concrete.
The suspect, identified as Josef F., was expected to appear in court later in the day.
"He admitted that he locked his daughter, who was 18 at the time, in the cellar, that he repeatedly had sex with her, and that he is the father of her seven children," Polzer told The Associated Press.
Austrians ? still scandalized by a 2006 case involving a young woman who was kidnapped and imprisoned in a basement cell outside Vienna for more than eight years ? expressed disbelief at the latest case.
"The entire nation must ask itself just what is fundamentally going wrong," the newspaper Der Standard said Monday in a commentary.
Guenter Pramreiter, who owns a bakery just down the street, told The Associated Press that the suspect and his wife would regularly buy bread and rolls, though never in large quantities.
"They appeared normal, just like any other family," Pramreiter said. "I'm totally shocked, this was next door. It's terrible."
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04-28-2008, 10:19 AM
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Austria....as in Kentucky or Arkansas?
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04-28-2008, 10:27 AM
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hmmm, he looks pretty stable
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04-28-2008, 10:53 AM
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Disturbing on so many levels ... this is the imprisoned daughter (now 42) as a young girl.
The Times - London has a substantial article on the case.
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Once inside the dungeon, police reported, they found all the passages extremely narrow, the ceiling is no higher than 5ft 6ins (170cm) and the floors uneven. They have found a makeshift shower room, cooking rings for the secret family to heat food, and a room lined entirely in rubber whose use is unknown.
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At least two news outlets, including the Guardian (UK) identify the man as Josef Fritzl.
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Last edited by sandgk; 04-28-2008 at 10:59 AM.
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04-28-2008, 11:08 AM
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Step into the sun
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Sick F#ck.
I don't even know what a fitting punishment could be with all things being considered. Maybe repeatly raped by a horse publicly for the rest of his short life?
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04-28-2008, 11:09 AM
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Wheres the obligatory "If locking your daughter away for 24 years, having sex with her, and fathering her children is wrong..." post
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04-28-2008, 11:16 AM
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