One of the gentlemen reports that some of the news that has been released is in error, including that of the children’s scanty language and the “monkey-like” walk of Felix. The documentary is excellent, and will answer many questions you may have. After watching this, I knew I wanted to post it on my site. Yesterday, on The Sable Verity I learned of a documentary that has been prepared by the Central European News Agency. That experience may be one of the reasons the Fritzl story has gripped me so intensely, and that I have followed it rather closely and have written about it more than once. She holds no animosity toward either Jerry or me and faults us not at all.īut sometimes when I think of that young girl I grieve and feel a clanking heaviness. The daughter finally cut all ties with her parents, and is now married and has children of her own. Many years later, the abused, grown daughter and I met again, and she told me the story.

We knew the family was unstable, but it never occurred to us that such could be happening. Some time ago, I wrote briefly of a child who attended one of the churches Jerry pastored, whom we found later to have been sexually abused by her father while the family was attending our church.

I hope you will follow the link and read stories of how she is caring for her children. I continue to pray for Elizabeth and her children. He absolutely deserves to be locked away, never again to see the light of day. “I thought of her as my wife and patner.” Asked if locking up his mom had given him the idea for caging Elisabeth, Fritzl said: “To be honest I just didn’t think about it, about her being my daughter.” Three lived upstairs with him and wife Rosemarie, 69. Adelheid Kastner: “I bricked in the window so that she never again saw the light of day.” Fritzl later fathered seven children by daughter Elisabeth, 42, who he locked in a cellar at their home for 24 years. No neighbors remember seeing her over the 21 years. I was never cuddled.” Local council files showed Fritzl inherited the home in Amstetten, Austria in 1959 “because his mother had died.” He locked her in an attic room where she is said to have died in 1980. She used to beat me, hit me until I was lying in a pool of blood on the floor. Incest dad Fritzl, 74, told a psychologist it was revenge for abuse he claims he received at her hands. VIENNA, Austria - Cellar monster Josef Fritzl has admitted he kept his mom bricked up in a locked room “for years” until she died. I look at my world and weep.įritzl, the evil dungeon dad admits to locking away his mother here. Too many despairing parents take up another needle, gulp down a numbing pill, or pour one more shot. Instead they are met with vacuous and witless stares. I look at mothers and fathers as they cast about with no direction–not a clue–while children grab pointlessly at the pant-legs of their daddies and the skirts of their mothers, pleading for a line, a course, a way. My mind and soul are wrenched as I watch innocent children systematically destroyed. I’m sick of Satan’s deceit and his abysmal devices, his chains, his filthy lies. Sick of seeing them stumble blindly through a lackluster semblance of life without Jesus Christ. I’m sick of sin! I’m sick of seeing families torn apart and ravaged by sin. Guilty of all charges, including the murder of his son, whose little body Fritzl tossed into a furnace. In a surprise move, Elizabeth appeared in the courtroom as her video was played.

The authorities’ interest in victim protection extends to a blanket ban in the Austrian press on naming Josef Fritzl’s daughter, their children or even the family name or face a €20,000 fine.Guilty! So said the jury responsible for handing down a verdict concerning Josef Fritzl, the dungeon monster. The closed-door proceedings in St Pölten, 65km from Vienna, have prompted unhappy reactions from hundreds of international journalists in the town. Two engineers who have inspected Fritzl’s dungeon are expected to confirm prosecution claims that heavy doors into the cellar could only be opened by remote control and combination lock from the outside.Įlisabeth Fritzl’s brother Harald may also testify in video evidence that reportedly confirms her claims that their father first began sexually abusing her when she was just 11 years old. The uncontested charges carry terms of up to 15 years, the two contested charges of enslavement and murder carry terms of 20 and life respectively.Īfter the eight-member jury finish hearing Elisabeth Fritzl’s evidence by tomorrow, the court will readmit the public and media for testimony from a paediatrician and a psychiatrist.

Elisabeth fritzl now 2017