Tuesday, April 29, 2008

This is fucked up...

Austria Shocked by Incest and Imprisonment Revelations

A prison cell

Austrians were left shocked by news of a 42-year-old woman who was sexually abused and held prisoner by her father for more than 20 years. The father has since admitted to imprisoning and abusing his daughter.

A 73-year-old Austrian admitted on Monday to having fathered seven children with his daughter whom he kept imprisoned in a dungeon for 24 years, while officials rejected any responsibility for the tragedy.

Josef F., a retired electrical engineer from Amstetten in eastern Austria, confessed to having locked his daughter, Elisabeth, 42, in the basement in August 1984, and to having abused and raped her repeatedly, authorities said at a press conference.

"This crime is more or less solved," provincial police chief Franz Pruchner said. "This crime is unique in the criminal history of Austria. It is beyond all dimensions I know of."

Josef had confessed to the crimes after his initial refusal to cooperate with with the authorities, but tried to mitigate the details.

He showed next to no regrets, authorities said.

During her captivity, Elisabeth gave birth to seven children, results of continued sexual abuse by her father. One infant died shortly after his birth. The father disposed of the body by burning it in the house's central-heating boiler, he told police.

Children had never seen daylight

HouseBildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: The house in which Josef F. kept his daughter imprisoned

Police on Sunday evening opened the basement dungeon where she was kept, overcoming several electronic locks set up by Josef F. The rooms were very small and below 1.7 meters (5.5 feet) in height. The basement contained sleeping cots, washing facilities and a TV set, the Austrian press agency reported.

Three Elisabeth F.'s six surviving children were locked in the room with her, until her father let them out a few days ago and claimed the mother had returned home.

For two of her sons, Stefan, 18, and Felix, 5, it was the first time they had seen daylight, police said.

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3 comments:

Benizzle said...

Puta madre.... So los hijos son del papá con la hija? I wonder if they came out normal. Son mitad hermanos y a la vez hijos de la man...Puta que historia mas triste...Sick fuck

rat said...

I wish the father was a little younger.
That way, he'd be locked up and severely raped for 20 years.
I saw on an old HBO America Undercover, that rapists get the worst treatment from fellow prison inmates. And when the rapist happens to be a child rapist... miegda!

Ditka666 said...

Three of the kids had actually been leading normal lives according to the report. The 5 year old kid in the basement might be salvageable. The 18 and 19 year olds that lived their whole lives until that point in the basement... damn, not so much hope for them, but let's hope anyway that something can be done. And the mom... locked up and getting raped by her dad from ages 18 to 42... sad.

It's very weird how no one ever noticed anything for 24 years.