(Blogger's Note: This was written by a new found friend on June 11,2008. It essays the gist of the Josef Fritzl Incest story)
19-year old Kerstin Fritzl, the eldest of the seven children who were incestuously born to Austrian Josef Fritzl and his daughter Elisabeth, finally came out of a seven week coma. Kerstin reportedly became very ill due to a lifelong lack of fresh air, light, exercise, and proper food. When she fell unconscious on April 19, Elisabeth begged Fritzl to seek medical help for her and the latter was forced to deliver Kerstin to the hospital on the same day.
Doctors at Amstetten General Hospital discovered that Kerstin suffered from a multiple organ failure and thus was put into a medically induced coma as part of her treatment. Aside from the said discovery, they also found a letter that was written and hidden by Elisabeth in Kerstin’s pocket. In the letter, Elisabeth asked whoever would read it to help her alleviate her and her family’s situation. Having read the note, the doctors called the police.
Police investigations then revealed that Elisabeth, 43, was raped by Fritzl since she was 11 years old. When she was 18, he lured her to the basement of their house, locked her up and made her his personal sex slave for over 24 years, beginning in 1984. To explain Elisabeth’s disappearance, he made his legal wife Rosemarie, 68, with whom he also has seven children, believe that Elisabeth ran away from home to join a religious cult. Thus, during the recent police investigation, Rosemarie claimed that she was not aware of Elisabeth’s cellar predicaments.
Fritzl continued to rape and physically assault Elisabeth which resulted to her becoming pregnant and giving birth to Kerstin in 1989. This was followed by six more incestuously born children. Like Kerstin, all of them were borne by Elisabeth inside the dimly-lit chamber, aided only by the medical books that Fritzl provided her. Three of the children, Lisa, 16, Monika, 14, and Alexander, 12 -- live normal lives with Fritzl and Rosemarie. Fritzl brought them out of the cellar when they were infants and made it appear as if Elisabeth had left the babies to his and his wife’s care. He did this by staging the "discovery" of the babies outside the entrance of their residence on different occasions. The other three children, Kerstin 19, Stefan, 18, and Felix, 5, and Elisabeth remained imprisoned in the small, purpose-built, sound-proofed and windowless dungeon beneath the upstairs home. Fritzl, who was an engineer and property developer, designed and built the dungeon himself for this particular purpose.
Michael, who was Alexander’s twin brother, died in the cellar due to breathing complications three days after Elisabeth gave birth to him and Alex in 1996. The place was damp and moldy and had very little oxygen. One of the investigators handling the case said that, “There is so little oxygen that the victims would have had to spend nearly all their time lying or sitting down.”
In his April 28 confession following his arrest, Fritzl admitted to having thrown Michael’s corpse to his heating furnace to "get rid of it".
Kerstin is now reunited with Elisabeth and her brothers Stefan and Felix who, after living in the darkness of the cellar, have finally seen the light of the day when the police revealed the case on April 26.
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photo source: Mail Online
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