Man holds daughter captive for 24 years

[NoTargeT]

In Austria, a man has held his daughter captive in a basement prison for 24 years. He sexually abused his now 42 year old daughter on a daily basis for 31 years. The daughter conceived 7 children of her father 1 of which died at birth. While 3 children went to school normally, 3 others, now ranging in age from 5 to 19 years old, were also held captive in the basement prison from the day they were born. The terrible story unfolded after the 19 year old child was brought to hospital unconscious. Police describes the condition the daughter and children were found in as 'horrifying'.

Read more here: Father admits raping daughter, holding her captive - CNN.com

How monstreous can a human being be...

[Vautrin]

This is horrible.

What is striking is that it happened in Austria again (after Kampusch last year). I wonder if there is a peculiar cause for that.

[TKDLady]

I hope they shoot him.

[darkangelism]

thats sick, who could do that to anybody especially their own daughter

[IvyRose]

I'm glad they found them.

It does make me wonder how much of this type of thing goes on that we're not aware of. It's as horrible as Human Trafficking.

[TKDLady]

I want to know how his wife could be unaware of this if it has been going on for the last 24 years. How stupid is she?

[IvyRose]

They did report that the basement/cellar was sound proof. They also reported that this make-shift living quarters were built in the 1950s. I just highly doubt that it was, there were fairly new fixtures and walls down there.

The food that he took down there should've clued her in. Maybe the left overs of the family meals were dealt out so sparingly the wife didn't notice?

The authorities aren't releasing much at this time. There are a lot of unanswered questions that I'd like to know myself.

[PepsiChic]

hang him. His poor daughter will NEVER get over the horrors shes had to ordeal, and all of her poor children will never forget whats happened, and how will they feel when the youngest of them come to understand where they are from and what their mother went through?

He should be hung, drawn and quartered.

[IvyRose]

Now the first images have begun to emerge of the series of rooms in which 73-year-old man Josef Fritzl says he imprisoned his daughter, and three of her surviving children, in a basement 50-60 meters square that he converted himself.

Okay, not only did he take some time make-shifting this place, but did he not own power tools that you could hear through the sound proofing? I still don't know how the wife wasn't at least suspicious.

[Vautrin]

Originally Posted by IvyRose

Okay, not only did he take some time make-shifting this place, but did he not own power tools that you could hear through the sound proofing? I still don't know how the wife wasn't at least suspicious.

I think she may have had her suspicions, but hardcore denial set in. Because she desperately did not want to have her fears confirmed, or even entertain thoughts that might be fearful, she simply did not see.

It is quite a common mechanism.

[PepsiChic]

i have to agree with vautrin, i mean if you were married for goodness knows how long to a guy, youd hate it but you'd find certain things suspicious in that same circumstance, but would you ever really thing that your beloved husband would be doing something that disgustingly horrible?

You automaticaly disgard those types of thoughts when you love someone.

of course she could of known but done nothing about it, maybe he had threatened her and their lifes?

[Luba]

Horrible! Monster!

[TKDLady]

I don't think she was as innocent as it appears.

[Fayebelle]

He goes to trial soon Fritzl case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Duke]

OMG, this is why I don't watch the news. I'd rather be a happy, oblivious, idiot rather than an well informed heartless cynic.

This guy should die slow and painfully.

[Fayebelle]

I wonder what made him choose certain children to go into the world?

[Duke]

Ya I wonder but not enough to keep him alive in the quest for answers.

[PepsiChic]

he didnt so necessarily choose certain children, he kept his wifes children above ground from what i understand and only the youngest of Elizabeths children because of illness.

still

Lawyer Christoph Herbst who represents Elisabeth Fritzl and family, said "fortunately, everything is going very well," as they spend time to answer the hundreds of letters sent worldwide. Felix, 5, brought up underground, has been learning to swim. One of Elisabeth's daughters, aged 15, attended a 4-day summer camp organized by firefighters with 4,000 other young campers. Other family members made day trips, including swimming outings, whereby care was taken to keep them out of reach of the paparazzi and to protect their privacy.[30]

they are getting the help they need and my thoughts are with them

[Waternymph]

FYI this also happened to a french girl and it didnt even make it on the first page on the newspapers worldwide, its so maddening.

[Vautrin]

I vaguely remember that case WN.

It is a bit similar to Maddie McCann. Her story received insane amounts of media coverage, whilst most abductions / disappearances barely get coverage at all.

[Waternymph]

Originally Posted by Vautrin

I vaguely remember that case WN.

It is a bit similar to Maddie McCann. Her story received insane amounts of media coverage, whilst most abductions / disappearances barely get coverage at all.

Yes Vautrin but it wasnt the Belgium case this one was also rape and incest and the poor girl asked the townfolks for help but they turned her in to the local police who then took her back home to her FATHER!

[Waternymph]

PARIS — A French woman who was tortured and raped by her father for 28 years and has six children by him wants to be friends with an Austrian allegedly held captive for decades by her father.
Lydia Gouardo, 45, spoke out about her case Wednesday after the Austrian woman's plight became public this week with the arrest of her father.
"I would like her to be my friend. I [would] feel less alone," Gouardo said of Elisabeth Fritzl in an interview with the daily Le Parisien. "Maybe there are others like that, in villages, where people close their shutters."
Gouardo, who lives in a village some 40 miles east of Paris, began her rebirth with the death of her father in 1999. He began raping her at the age of 10, according to her lawyer, Alain Mikowski.
Her stepmother was aware and was convicted in a closed-door trial before an appeals court this month for non-denunciation of a crime and given a four-year suspended prison sentence, Mikowski said by telephone.
Mikowski said that there was a total breakdown of the judicial, police and social services systems.
Gouardo, who never attended school and is illiterate, says she was tortured by her father but not locked up. She says she fled the family home several times while she was a minor, but police kept bringing her back.





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[Vautrin]

No, the Belgium case is the Dutroux affair, and related cases. The jury is still not out on what happened there exactly, and how Dutroux and others were able to get away with it for such a long time.

[Waternymph]

Originally Posted by Vautrin

No, the Belgium case is the Dutroux affair, and related cases. The jury is still not out on what happened there exactly, and how Dutroux and others were able to get away with it for such a long time.

I reckon the mother of the girl abducted had something to do with it.