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Fritzl has told investigators that his decision to incarcerate his daughter was to rescue her from what he described as persons of questionable moral standards and that ever since she started puberty Elisabeth had ceased to obey his rules. Mother and six children held in underground room for 24 years see outside world for first time- the Fritzl case - Altered Dimensions Paranormal". Altereddimensions.net. 8 March 2016. Archived from the original on 22 May 2022 . Retrieved 19 August 2022. Eight jurors watched an 11-hour video of Elisabeth’s testimony. It was so horrifying, the judge allowed it to be shown in two-hour segments with time in between for jurors to recover. Doctors and counselors were kept on hand to offer assistance to anyone who found the evidence too overwhelming, and four replacement jurors stood by in case a juror was unable to withstand the emotional assault. During the evening, Fritzl releases Elisabeth, Stefan, and Felix from the cellar and brings them upstairs, informing his wife that Elisabeth had decided to come home after a 24-year absence. Later that evening, after an anonymous tipoff during a visit to the hospital, Fritzl and Elisabeth are taken into police custody where she reveals her decades-long imprisonment during questioning. [3] The others, the children will be let out and will have to be taught how to live, and those senses that weren’t stimulated downstairs will have to be stimulated.
a b "The Family Man of Amstetten: Double life of a pillar of Austrian society". The Independent. 27 October 2011. Archived from the original on 30 October 2015 . Retrieved 30 October 2015. Josef Fritzl: The absolute ruler of his underground concrete hell". The Scotsman. 17 March 2009. Archived from the original on 30 October 2015 . Retrieved 30 October 2015. Chancellor of Austria Alfred Gusenbauer said he planned to launch a foreign public image campaign for his country, in light of the "abominable events." [65] Aftermath [ edit ]
During the trial, Josef attempted to hide his face behind a blue binder. He entered the courtroom wearing a gray suit, dark shirt, striped tie, and flanked by six police officers. He plead guilty to most of the charges except for murder (of the infant) and assault. His attorney told the jury that Josef was not a monster and explained that he had even taken a Christmas tree into the basement for the prisoners. Christiane Burkheiser, prosecuting her first case since being appointed Chief Prosecutor, pressed for life imprisonment in an institution for the criminally insane. She demonstrated for jurors the low height of the ceiling in the cellar dungeon by making a mark on the door to the courtroom at 174cm (5ft 8.5in), and described the cellar as "damp and mouldy," passing around a box of musty objects taken from the cellar, the odour of which made jurors flinch. [54] [55]
To this day, Elisabeth says she never wishes to see her father again. Doctors say it’s a miracle she did not lose her mind. The director of intensive medicine at the Amstetten State Hospital, Albert Reiter said, His defense lawyer points to his Nazi era childhood. Born in 1935, the Nazis were taking over Austria. Josef Fritzl was brought up as an only child by a strict and cruel mother, a woman he worshiped, telling the Austrian magazine she was the best woman in the world. How Fritzl Planned To Blame Years Of Torture On Evil Sect". Daily Express. 2 May 2008. Archived from the original on 5 May 2008 . Retrieved 2 May 2008.With Fritzl’s rape conviction erased from his records, they had no reason to be suspicious. In fact, social workers left, impressed by his wife, Rosemarie. All of the children suffered from vitamin D deficiency and anemia which caused them to developweak and deformed bones. All required getting use to the additional space and different food. For most of the older children, walking for longer than 30-40 feet would cause their motor responses to go awry, and they would become disoriented. When Elisabeth got to the hospital and began to work with police and health care professionals to talk, there’s no reason for her to trust them. Josef Fritzl's daughter's secret new life revealed 10 years after he was jailed". The Daily Mirror. London, England: Reach plc. 19 March 2019. Archived from the original on 5 April 2019 . Retrieved 5 April 2019.
a b Hall, Alan (15 May 2008). "Amstetten cellar victims thank town for support". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 17 May 2008 . Retrieved 15 May 2008. In March 2009, Elisabeth and her children were forced to move out of the family's hide-away home and returned to the psychiatric clinic where medical staff had started trying to heal the family and unite the "upstairs" and "downstairs" siblings during the previous year. Elisabeth was reported to be distraught and close to a breakdown after a British paparazzo had burst into her kitchen and started taking photographs. [56] Translator: If, as people assumed and her father kept claiming, Elisabeth was living with a sect, it wouldn’t have been difficult at all for a member of the sect to give Elisabeth a lift at night and for her to leave the baby on the door step at a time when she wouldn’t have been seen. Austria incest trial under way". Al Jazeera English. 16 March 2009. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011 . Retrieved 14 September 2012.It may be hard to comprehend but we must accept that a woman bringing up seven children can’t take care of everything or pay the same amount of attention to her husband that she would if she had a smaller family. Lisa was born in May 1993. At 9 months old, for reasons unknown, she was removed from the cellar to live with Josef and Rosemarie in the upstairs home. According to Josef, she was ‘found in a box” on the doorsteps of their home. Inside the box was a note that read: Translator: This is something the police see time and time again and, as we all know, every child leaves the family home at some point.
After her “disappearance”, her mother, Rosemarie, filed a missing persons report with the police. A month later, Josef claimed to have received a letter from Elisabeth in the mail. He turned the letter over to the police explaining that Elisabeth had joined a cult. The letter, dated September 21, 1984, was postmarked from Braunau and made clear that she was tired of living at home and was living safely with a friend (similar circumstances to her prior, failed runaway attempt). She warned her parents, “If you look for me, I will leave the country.” Her father, threatening to shut off all gas and electricity in the basement, had coerced her into penning the letter in her own hand. Life in the basement dungeon, hidden from the outside world for 24 years Fritzl's troubled childhood analysed in court". The Guardian. 18 March 2009. Archived from the original on 30 October 2015 . Retrieved 30 October 2015. Translator: If we want to discuss when things deteriorated for Elisabeth, then certainly there was the moment when she realized that she was pregnant for the first time. His wife, too, was very submissive towards him. We all knew it. He was very domineering with his family.
His absences on holiday for several weeks at a time have raised questions that he might have had an accomplice to look after his family, but police believe he was so well organized it wouldn’t have been necessary. Her story inspired the novel (and its film adaptation) Room. Documentaries that have been released about her case include The Longest Night: Secrets of the Austrian Cellar and Monster: The Josef Fritzl Story. Family Life
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