Josef fritzi trial

He pleaded guilty in to charges of enslavement, incest, rape, coercion and false imprisonment and was sentenced to life in prison, authorities said.

The Girl in the Basement tells a similar story, but with details changed. It is set in the U. The movie premiered on February 27, Getty Josef Fritzl. In , Fritzl was reported to be ill, according to the British newspaper Metro. The news was first reported by a local outlet, Oesterreich , which spoke to an inmate at the prison.

He has totally withdrawn himself and barely leaves his cell. According to Metro, Elisabeth Fritzl has not had any contact with her father since he has been in prison. What is striking about the case is how three of those children have had an apparently normal life with their father grandfather and that Rosemarie did not suspect anything!

The answer is found in the version given by Fritzl. For both the police and the kidnapper, Elisabeth had run away of her own accord. It had been the second time she had tried it and this time she had succeeded.

Hence her mother did not keep looking. The letters that the girl had to write to Rosemarie forced by Fritzl also helped. It was a way to keep her from being suspicious. In the first, she confessed the reason for her flight; and in the following, Rosemarie asked her to take care of her children, whom she could not support.

However, the Austrian pedophile never left a loose fringe in all this history. The letters showed that his daughter was still alive and that he did not want to have any relationship with the family.

In addition, Fritzl threw more wood on the fire assuring that it was all the fault of a sect that had captured her and that was forcing her to get rid of her babies. When the police investigated the story, they thought that Fritzl had one or more accomplices. However, this theory fell apart as the evidence was compiled. The pedophile enjoyed a good economic position, which allowed him to have several properties in his name and total freedom of movement.

When the bomb went off, the social impact was overwhelming. The neighbours closed their eyes. The space was 80 square meters, with a maximum height of centimetres, and spanned the entire garden. To access it, he placed a kilo concrete sliding door hidden behind a bookcase. It was passable by a code known only to Fritzl. The enclosure consisted of an entrance, two bedrooms of 3 square meters, a small kitchen, a bathroom and a laundry room.

The only source of ventilation came from a tube. Josef Fritzl was seventy-three years old when he was arrested by the Austrian authorities in Although at first he refused to testify, later he confessed the facts that were later proven.

Until the day of his trial, March 16, , the pedophile was subjected to various psychological and psychiatric tests. Deprivation of liberty, incest, rape, slavery and homicide were some of the charges that the Austrian had to face during his court hearing. Finally, a popular jury determined that Fritzl was guilty of the aforementioned crimes and sentenced him to life imprisonment and psychiatric internment. He does not even feel remorse for what he did and has dedicated himself to writing love letters to his wife that she never replied.

On the contrary, Rosemarie decided to divorce days after her incarceration to start a new life. Meanwhile, Elisabeth 55 years old and her six children-siblings now between 16 and 30 years old have changed their surname and live far from Amstetten under strong security measures.

They are still under psychological treatment trying to adapt to society. Fritzl, Be darned glad I was not the husband of the woman you raped in If I had been, I would have hunted you down, even if I had to go clear across the planet to find you.

I then would have abducted you, tied you up, and tortured you in ways that not even you can imagine. A flathead screwdriver down your urethra repeatedly, eyelid removal, and a glowing fire poker up your arse repeatedly would have been the infinitesimally least of your concerns once I had you in my custody. You would have been incessantly begging for death. The beautiful thing is, is that you never, under any circumstance, would have been able to defend yourself successfully, as I would have used my superior physical strength to dominate and subdue you.

Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Ten years ago, Elisabeth was released from the soundproofed underground cellar where her dad raped her more than 3, times and fathered seven kids with her. After escaping from her horrific ordeal, Elisabeth was given a new name and moved to a tiny hamlet in the Austrian countryside to start a new life at the age of She fell in love with her bodyguard, Thomas Wagner - who is 23 years her junior - after spending months together when she was freed, Oesterreich newspaper reported.

He was assigned to guard her and the six surviving children she had with her father while she was imprisoned in a cellar for 24 years. The relationship is said to have given Elisabeth "renewed strength" in her journey towards normality. One of the team of psychiatric carers revealed that the romance has helped her overcome the traumas of her past.

Elisabeth was just 18 when she was drugged by her father and imprisoned in a dungeon he built beneath the family home in the Austrian town of Amstetten two hours from Vienna. She was subjected to daily rapes and was held captive in squalid conditions where she gave birth to seven of her father's children in darkness.

When Elisabeth was given permission to finally leave the sex dungeon to visit Kerstin in hospital, she was arrested and subsequently told the police about the horrific crimes her father had committed. Soon after her release Elisabeth started to develop an obsession with cleanliness, showering up to 10 times a day, according to reports.