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A 73-year-old Austrian man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, police have said.

Look at this man:



This man, Josef Fritzl, imprisoned his daugher in a secret underground dungeon in 1984, and she has been there since. He raped her constantly and fathered seven children with her. Two of which lived lives as normally, whereas four others had never seen the light and the final died and had his body burnt.

BBC article here.

I think this is sick. What do you say?

-Mark

That is awful! I can't believe anyone would do something like that!

I don't see why the man confessed, though. He'll go to jail for life.

Also, I wonder how old the girl was when he imprisoned her? And what happened to her and the kids? Hm...I should go read the actual article.

This is sick.

~JFW1415

Horrific... truly horrific...

I wonder if guilt caught up on him. Leading him to confess. It can happen.

Vernon wrote:I wonder if guilt caught up on him. Leading him to confess. It can happen.

Most likely from seeing his granddaughter/daughter in a coma.

(I've finally read the actual article!)

It's awful.

~JFW1415

Its frightening how many bad, horrific things happen in the world dont you think? Eurgh, its disgusting.

Also, I wonder how old the girl was when he imprisoned her?

18.

Just imagine that. No, scratch that, don't.

I doubt he will ever get out of prison, I mean, how could someone do that?!

-Mark

We talked about that in Global Studies (though I knew about it because I read the thread yesterday). It's so sad.

Apparently Fritzl is on suicide watch now:

http://www.cnn.com/video/?iref=videoglobal

My mom was reading this article. The children never saw sunlight until they were freed. The man is a sicko. He even looks like one. I'm going to go on a rant, I'll save it for Word Press. What makes people think they can do somthing like that. I hope he is locked up for life. People like him are some of the reasons why I started my Word Press blog. What is the world comming to?!

Fritzl is definitely mad. His picture even gives me the creeps. I don't understand why people could do something like this. I feel so sorry for the daughter and children...its really too much...

Its disgusting. That guy can end his days in the worst prison in Austria. See how he likes being locked in a dungeon.

He says Hitler inspired him to do it. I feel so distraught every time I see about it in the papers. That poor girl. Those poor children.

Sicko. Thats all I need to say.

Eimear wrote:He says Hitler inspired him to do it. I feel so distraught every time I see about it in the papers. That poor girl. Those poor children.

Doesn't he know what happened to Hitler? He really wants to follow down the same path?

This is sick. Children never even seeing the outdoors...it's awful. I nearly live outside! (And on here, but...)

I hate him.

~JFW1415

Yeah, everybody was talking about that before what happened in China. It's sure that he's sick. I mean, it's more than just a sick man, he didn't want to be caught because the walls were in concrete,so nobody can hear her daughter.

I don't care about the guy: just die in jail and it'll be finish for you- he's already old.
But the woman... I just want that she find something or someone to support her, because her life is totally ravaged by that.
I feel sad for her.