Austrian Incest Victim Questioned

Woman Asked About Being Held Captive And Impregnated By Her Father For 24 Years

(AP)  Prosecutors for the first time questioned the woman allegedly held captive for 24 years by her father, and video of the interviews will be shown in court at the father's trial later this year, Austrian media reported Friday.

The Austria Press Agency, citing unidentified judicial sources, said 42-year-old Elisabeth Fritzl was interviewed Friday in a secret location.

Her father, 73-year-old Josef Fritzl, is expected to go on trial before the end of the year. Prosecutors allege he held his daughter in a windowless underground cell beneath his home and fathered seven children with her, tossing into a furnace the body of one of the babies after it died in infancy.

Investigators plan to resume questioning Elisabeth next week, APA said.

Public broadcaster ORF said Judge Andrea Humer, who will preside over Fritzl's trial, gave the go-ahead for Elisabeth to be questioned after medical experts pronounced her in good health.

Elisabeth, her children and her mother have been getting treatment and counseling at a psychiatric clinic guarded by police since Fritzl released his captives in late April after one of the children held underground became seriously ill and was hospitalized.

Authorities say Fritzl has confessed to fathering the seven children and disposing of the body of the infant who died, and they say DNA tests confirmed he is the surviving children's biological father.

Investigators say Fritzl brought three of the youngsters upstairs and raised them in the open with his wife, claiming Elisabeth had run away to join a cult and had later left the three on the family's doorstep in Amstetten, a town west of Vienna.

They say the other three children were confined in the cellar with Elisabeth - who was imprisoned shortly after she turned 18 - and never saw sunlight until they gained their freedom this spring.

ORF reported Friday that one of the children who lived upstairs - a 15-year-old girl - spent last weekend "incognito" at a youth fire brigade camp with 4,000 other youngsters and met up with some of her school friends for the first time in nearly three months.

Other family members also have made day trips outside under disguise, the Kurier newspaper reported.

Fritzl remains held in pretrial detention in St. Poelten, about 50 miles west of Vienna. He has not been charged yet.

Officials have said they will videotape any interviews with Fritzl's victims and show the tape in court to spare them the trauma of having to appear and testify.

[ccdsswrkr08]

Ok, so we''ve got a cell too small for him to stand, with no window, a sodomizing roomate....lets also throw in a pellet gun, controled via internet, people can pay to shoot him over and over and over again, 24-7, 365, and he cannot get away from it. All the money gained by the website goes to his daughter and her children. That sounds good to me!

[shippg-2009]

Regarding wearing the provocative clothing that got daddy all excited, it seems like I did hear awhile ago that she had made him jealous because she wanted to go out with a boy. Daddy had been molesting her all her life, you know, and did not want to share her.

I like the idea of a cell with a ceiling too short to stand up.

[susanhelit]

I think this is almost exactly how he should be punished. But remove the window from his cell, lower the ceiling so he cannot stand up straight, make sure he hates his roomate, and no time outside. If it was good enough for his daughter, it''ll be good enough for him. And may he have a long miserable life inside, and may the guards slip up now and again when protecting him from other prisoners.

[dedad1]

Don''t be sorry, be a bit more original :)

[anecdote1]

That was too easy a target
Posted by dedad1 at 02:13 PM

Sorry....

[dedad1]

"Austrian Incest Victim Questioned"

Ivestigator:

"Who''''s your daddy? who''''s your daddy?"


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Posted by anecdote1 at 02:04 PM : Jul 11, 2008


That was too easy a target

[anecdote1]

"Austrian Incest Victim Questioned"

Ivestigator:

"Who''s your daddy? who''s your daddy?"

[dedad1]

I don''''t believe this man can be punished the way he should be. He''''s already over 70 yrs old.


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Posted by jennmarikp at 12:32 PM : Jul 11, 2008


Let me duct tape him to my embalming table....

[juliemd]

GOP forever...couldn''t begin to understand your comment until I saw how you signed it...GOP forever.
Enough said, du idiot!

[jennmarikp]

I don''t believe this man can be punished the way he should be. He''s already over 70 yrs old.

[minnick8-2009]

I thought there was going to be new information in this story. This must be a slow news day.

[lambofgoth]

Hey Faith... How''s it going?