VIENNA, Austria, May 7, 2008
Incest Dad: I Am Not A Monster
Josef Fritzl Met With A Prosecutor, But Did Not Elaborate On His Earlier Confession
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Josef Fritzl has been following the international media circus surrounding his case and says he's being portrayed as a monster. (AP/Police Niederoesterreich)
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Josef Fritzl has been following the international media circus surrounding his case and says he's being portrayed as a monster. (CBS)
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Meanwhile, Austria's justice minister acknowledged that authorities may have been gullible in their handling of Josef Fritzl when he reported his daughter missing nearly a quarter of a century ago.
Fritzl and prosecutor Christiane Burkheiser talked for about two hours Wednesday but did not discuss the allegations against him - that he raped his daughter for years, imprisoned her in his cellar, and fathered her seven children, St. Poelten prosecution spokesman Gerhard Sedlacek said.
Fritzl did agree to provide further testimony, Sedlacek said, adding that no more questioning is expected in the next two weeks.
Authorities say Fritzl, 73, initially confessed to holding daughter Elisabeth, now 42, and some of their seven children captive in a reinforced basement.
But Fritzl, who has not yet been charged, has not elaborated on the earlier confession. Sedlacek said he provided the prosecutor Wednesday with details about his background, including his career.
The underground family came to light April 19 when Elisabeth's oldest child, a 19-year-old woman, was hospitalized with a severe infection in Amstetten, west of Vienna.
Doctors, unable to find medical records for the woman, appealed on TV for her mother to come forward. Fritzl then accompanied Elisabeth to the hospital on April 26.
He subsequently told police that he had fathered seven children with Elisabeth - three kept all their lives in the cellar; one adopted by him and his wife; two others raised in the couple's custody; and one who died as an infant.
In an interview with the newspaper Der Standard, published Wednesday, Justice Minister Maria Berger hinted at shortcomings by local authorities, saying they may have shown a certain "gullibility" in accepting Fritzl's claim, when Elisabeth first disappeared in 1984, that she had run away to join a cult.
"Today, one would certainly pursue this more precisely," Berger told the newspaper, adding that she planned to increase pre-adoption checks.
Authorities in Lower Austria province have maintained that they acted appropriately.
Fritzl's lawyer, Rudolf Mayer, said his client had access to a television in jail and was closely watching coverage of his case, which has garnered worldwide attention.
Mayer said Fritzl was bothered by the fact that he was being made out to be a monster. He said Fritzl told him: "I'm only being portrayed as a monster and not as someone who committed monstrous acts."
Mayer made his comments when asked to confirm a report Wednesday by the newspaper Oesterreich that quoted Fritzl as saying he was not a monster and that without him, the 19-year-old would no longer be alive.
In Amstetten, specialists continued to sift through the Fritzl home for evidence.
Chief investigator Franz Polzer said in addition to the cellar, Fritzl had deemed several rooms of the vast house off limits to other people. These rooms are now being examined in detail, he said.
At some point, investigators are planning also to check the yard using sonar technology.
"We don't have any concrete reason to suspect there is anything else but we want to be absolutely sure," Polzer said, adding that investigators may also have detected additional, debris-filled spaces in the cellar.
In Vienna, Berger told parliament that what happened to the Amstetten victims "couldn't be made right" and stressed the need to better shield children from sex abuse.
Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer and Vice Chancellor Wilhelm Molterer announced plans to tighten laws for sex offenders.
"We will boost prevention because it is most important that criminal offenses are averted," Gusenbauer said in a statement.
Fritzl reportedly was convicted of rape in 1967. On Wednesday, Gusenbauer said the federal government considered it "completely inconceivable" that a convicted sex offender was able to adopt a child, and that such individuals would be allowed to do jobs involving contact with children and adolescents.
A crowd of roughly 500 gathered in Amstetten's central square Wednesday evening to show their solidarity with the victims and express confidence in the future. They unrolled dozens of banners on which people had written encouraging messages and listened to speeches, such as one by local priest Peter Boesendorfer.
"May these banners remind us to work toward a better world," the Austria Press Agency quoted Boesendorfer as saying.
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See all 56 CommentsYour post about KLK is so psychotic as to cause me to rest my case. I have simply not heard such dripping, steaming, smelly piles of d-u-n-g and meaningless blabber on this site. You have made my point that you are a nut case, and also checked the spelling of mormon... now check out the spelling of cult....
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It appears that you and several other people are being mind-managed by the KLK (krazy lesbians kult), which conspired to provide a false police report that resulted in the raid on the Texas Mormons.
The objective of the KLK (whose members include the Texas social workers and judge on the case) is to obtain the humble, white Mormon children and adopt them out to infertile lesbian couples, and that is happening right now.
Once these kids are in the hands of the KLK, they''re told there is no such thing as too early for ***. Whenever the head lesbian tells them to go ''marry'' an old lesbian, that''s who they''re given to. They''re groomed to be pedophile fodder. Information presented shows that they''re given to be concubines (not wives - lesbians can''t have wives) at puberty or before, and have un-natural $ex while still children themselves.
Posted by godseyesore
Ok, let''s see what duffus is talking about. Jesus said,"Be good to one another." "Love your neighbor as your brother." "Do unto others as they do unto you."
Man, does that truly sound like "vile immoral advise". It seems to me that the "brain dead human" you are speaking about is yourself. Read the bible, then when you are finished you can speak your blasphemous mind. You''ve got a lot of reading to do.
"now here is a case with much good and honest proof of perversions. NOT like the mormans in texas, of which there is NO good and clean proof of ANYTHING."
Let''s see, cpaide, 3-4 children with a mother that is 14-16 years old... hmmm. At 9 months gestation on average per child multiplied by, let''s say only 3 children, that means that a 16 year old mom has been pregnant for 27 months of her life, or 2 yrs and 3 months... which means she has been pregnant since she was 14... 14... 14... and that is only IF... IF... she got pregnant immediately after giving birth each time, which is highly unlikely!!! Now how about those 14 and 15 year old mothers... huh?? And you say nothing has happened or can be proven??? In all such cases in many states, rape has occurred BY DEFINITION. Brainwashing and religious fear can breed many of the same results that actually being incarcerated in a dungeon can produce... and be as psychologically difficult to heal.... and you can''t even spell Mormon....phtooee!
can you see the difference, or are you so hateful and stupid that your mind has gone bad?
Posted by cpaide
This guy is the worst kind of monster. Crimes againest your own family. Where is humanity going?
And as for YFZ, which you seem to support. Pedophilia is sick/and demented. No matter if you put it in a nice religious bow.
Your name fits you. After posting the comment you typed, I''d sleep with one eye open, bud. The grim reaper may snatch you up at any time.
His Punishment should be Death, for crimes against Humanity.
Forgive me for not saying anything more; I do not believe other people would want to hear what sort of things I could say, except that "monster" is way too kind an epithet.
can you see the difference, or are you so hateful and stupid that your mind has gone bad?
So was this "daughter" adopted? If so then this news report turns away from incest to kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment. Not to mention the treatment of the offspring of these two. Why are people bringing religion in to this? While it was a heinous crime I don''t believe it is anything America''s Republican Party would care to bomb, invade and then try to convert religious beliefs on. Beside the fact that she was held captive and brainwashed (not water boarded) the elements present to describe a crime, suggest rape, false imprisonment, kidnapping and assault. Why this sad horror story is being brought before the church for exorcism, or made a prophetical sign suggestion proof of biblical writings is silly not to mention an abomination for which spirituality is intended.
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Posted by drmaqazi at 10:20 AM : May 08, 2008
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I would agree but the only problem here is that,
the only Book Fritz has ever read was Mine Kompf
if you have been indoctrinated from infancy with
false Ideas such as in Durango Texas,
how can the person be judged by what they don`t know.
so while on the one hand the Law stands on the other Mercy must also bend over backward to understand.
sincerely Fuzzy
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