A DAUGHTER'S NIGHTMARE!
April 28th 2008 01:43
I read in the news this morning the appalling story that has emerged from Austria regarding a father who imprisoned his daughter for twenty-four years in the home cellar and fathered several children with her!
According to the prosecution spokesman a 42-year-old woman, Elizabeth Fritzl, had accused her father, Josef, 73, of putting her to sleep with an anaesthetic, then handcuffing her in a locked basement. This was back in 1984 when Elizabeth was just 19. Apparently Josef had been sexually abusing Elizabeth since she was eleven. \
The case only came to the attention of police after one of the children, 19-year-old Kerstin was admitted to hospital in critical condition. Police discovered Elizabeth and three of the other siblings in the underground chamber yesterday.
The basement had several rooms each 170cm high and was equipped with water and a television, however it was obvious to authorities the children had been living in a state of grim captivity.
Josef has a wife, Rosemarie, who apparently had no idea about the underground chamber, which beggars belief. Was she deaf and blind?!
Elizabeth and five of the children are currently in hospital being treated by a team of psychologists, while Josef is being interrogated by police.
How ghastly is that?! Truth is stranger and more nightmarish than fiction! It boggles the mind how screwed up some people are … And they get away with it for so long! It’s a real-life Flowers in the Attic taken to horrific extremes.
It’s extraordinary how inhumane people can be to each other, and even more disgusting is when it is crimes committed within the family.
Of course, being the twisted opportunist that I am, I immediately thought of the cinematic possibilities. This is a true crime tale just begging to be made into a horror movie, and a dark one too.
Possible titles that spring to mind; The Family, Dolls in the Cellar, Domesticity, My Heart Belongs To Daddy.
According to the prosecution spokesman a 42-year-old woman, Elizabeth Fritzl, had accused her father, Josef, 73, of putting her to sleep with an anaesthetic, then handcuffing her in a locked basement. This was back in 1984 when Elizabeth was just 19. Apparently Josef had been sexually abusing Elizabeth since she was eleven. \
The case only came to the attention of police after one of the children, 19-year-old Kerstin was admitted to hospital in critical condition. Police discovered Elizabeth and three of the other siblings in the underground chamber yesterday.
A normal Austrian home, but who knows what's in the cellar these days ...
The basement had several rooms each 170cm high and was equipped with water and a television, however it was obvious to authorities the children had been living in a state of grim captivity.
Josef has a wife, Rosemarie, who apparently had no idea about the underground chamber, which beggars belief. Was she deaf and blind?!
Elizabeth and five of the children are currently in hospital being treated by a team of psychologists, while Josef is being interrogated by police.
How ghastly is that?! Truth is stranger and more nightmarish than fiction! It boggles the mind how screwed up some people are … And they get away with it for so long! It’s a real-life Flowers in the Attic taken to horrific extremes.
It’s extraordinary how inhumane people can be to each other, and even more disgusting is when it is crimes committed within the family.
Of course, being the twisted opportunist that I am, I immediately thought of the cinematic possibilities. This is a true crime tale just begging to be made into a horror movie, and a dark one too.
Possible titles that spring to mind; The Family, Dolls in the Cellar, Domesticity, My Heart Belongs To Daddy.
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Comment by tlcorbin
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Comment by Damo
I read the same story this morning and was tempted to write a post on it myself. Damn you beat me to it.
This is one odd case for the Ripley's show.
Believe it or not.
Yes I can see a movie out of this somewhere.
Perhaps an Austrian version of the family in the iron masks.
Not sure what to do with the father if this turns out to be true.
Handcuff him to bars of a prison in SE Asia?
Comment by Cibbuano
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The kids are aged 5 to 20, as well... that's bizarre... all of them growing up in the cellar?
Comment by Bryn
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Comment by RubySoho
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I'm sure all the gruesome details will be revealed soon enough.
Comment by D. Armenta
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What's the deal in Austria with imprisoning children?!
The mother in Linz who imprisoned her three daughters for 7 years (2005) Natascha Kampusch being held in a dungeon there for 8 years (2006) and now this. Coincidence? Trend? Scary stuff..
Comment by Bryn
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Armenta, yeah, I would be interested in reading Natascha's book ... do you know what it's called?
Comment by D. Armenta
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Poor child. Her mother wrote a book, evidently to cash in, but it has no account of Natascha's ordeal. There's another book called "The girl in the cellar" that has no more info than you can find on Google news.
Looking into the Austria link further, a lot of the older homes had already had subterranean hiding spaces from the Nazi invasion. Interesting subject...
Comment by Bryn
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