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Josef Fritzl

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/ 7 May 2008

I’m no monster, says Austrian incest father

An Austrian accused of keeping his daughter as a sex slave for 24 years insisted he is ”no monster”, but that he could have killed his daughter and her children without anyone knowing, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. Josef Fritzl’s claims were published as the 73-year-old was interviewed by prosecutors for the first time.

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/ 6 May 2008

Fritzl began plans for incest dungeon in 1978

Josef Fritzl began planning the dungeon in which he incarcerated his daughter, Elisabeth, for 24 years when she was 12 and was so meticulous that he provided his ”downstairs family” with ultraviolet rays, vitamin tablets and an aquarium, Austrian officials said on Monday. Police said Fritzl (73) began to plan his secret bunker as early as 1978.

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/ 4 May 2008

A monster from the pages of a Grimm tale

Behind all the words, the turning over of facts, the analysis, the frantic speculation (did the wife know?) and the tormented search for meanings (how could this happen?), lies a central image: a woman and her three children buried alive, toothless, hunchbacked, pale-skinned, talking in their own mumbling language, just beneath the surface of everyday life for 24 years.

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/ 1 May 2008

Austrian cops defend actions in dungeon-incest case

Austrian police say the man who held his daughter prisoner for 24 years and fathered seven children with her had no accomplices and planned his crime too meticulously to have been caught any earlier. Josef Fritzl (73) has admitted to keeping his daughter locked in a windowless bunker, repeatedly sexually assaulting her and later imprisoning their children.

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/ 30 April 2008

How the family may start leading a normal life

Psychologists experienced in helping the victims of sexual abuse and prolonged isolation say that great care will need to be used in trying to bring some normality to the lives of Elisabeth Fritzl and her children. Elisabeth ”may have been compliant because she had her children to protect,” said Lesley Perman-Kerr, who is in private practice in St Albans, Hertfordshire.

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