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Posted: Sun Apr 27th, 2008 03:54 pm |
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Austrian woman says father held her in cellar for 24 years
Published: 4/27/08, 11:05 AM EDT
By VERONIKA OLEKSYN
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Police have found a woman missing since 1984, who told authorities that her father had kept her in a cellar for almost 24 years and that she had given birth to seven children after being repeatedly raped by him.
The 73-year-old father was taken into custody, Franz Polzer, head of the Lower Austrian Bureau of Criminal Affairs, told reporters Sunday.
Authorities found the woman Saturday evening in the town of Amstetten following a tip, Lower Austria police said in a statement.
The 42-year-old woman told police that her father began sexually abusing her when she was 11 and locked her in a room in the cellar on Aug. 28, 1984.
During the 24 years that followed, she said she was continually abused and gave birth to seven children, one of whom died several days later.
Police said in the statement the woman appeared "greatly disturbed" psychologically during questioning. She agreed to talk only after authorities assured her that she would no longer have to have contact with her father and that her children would be taken care of.
DNA tests are expected to determine whether the man is the father of the six surviving children, according to police.
The Austria Press Agency said the three boys and three girls range in age from 5 and 20. One of the children, a 19-year-old woman, was being hospitalized in very serious condition, according to Austrian broadcaster ORF.
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Posted: Sun Apr 27th, 2008 03:59 pm |
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| Oh My goodnes this is so bad! Oh yeah that is 10 times worse!!! I say hang em high!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted: Sun Apr 27th, 2008 04:08 pm |
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| were the kids locked up to?? Sheesh do more then hang him, make him suffer for long time.
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Posted: Sun Apr 27th, 2008 04:18 pm |
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What a nightmare! I can't believe there are people so deranged in this world. There is no penalty harsh enough!
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Posted: Sun Apr 27th, 2008 04:25 pm |
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According to this link, some of the children were allowed outside of the cellar and daddy/grandpa passed them off as his grandchildren. Suprisingly, his wife was also privy to all of this and was arrested as well. Very disturbing story.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/04/27/austria.cellar/
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Posted: Sun Apr 27th, 2008 04:36 pm |
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| The womans parents should both be held responsible. What a horrible life this poor woman and her children have lived. Two of the children had never seen the light of day. The parents should have to suffer for a very long time but neither of them will probably live for as long as their daughter and children/grandchildren have suffered.
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Posted: Sun Apr 27th, 2008 05:31 pm |
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| There are very few instances in which one could point to an individual and correctly label that person as evil.... this man is certainly one of them.
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Posted: Sun Apr 27th, 2008 10:27 pm |
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Lock him in the prison cellar with Bubba. Bet they don't have babies, though.
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Posted: Sun Apr 27th, 2008 10:48 pm |
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Just saw this on CNN..... Apparently the mother/grandma claims she didn't know the daughter was being held hostage in the cellar. The father told everybody the daughter ran away and joined a cult and dropped 3 of the children off at the house for them to raise and then left again. Interpol was trying to locate her the time that she was down in the cellar......
Talk about some weird twists and turns.....
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Posted: Sun Apr 27th, 2008 11:02 pm |
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This is just plain sick. There is no punishment severe enough for this man.
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Posted: Mon Apr 28th, 2008 12:10 am |
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This story gets more bizzare with each printing!
Police: Captive had at least 6 children by her father
Published: 4/27/08, 8:00 PM EDT
AMSTETTEN, Austria (CNN) - Austrian police believe a 73-year-old man held his daughter captive in his cellar for the past two decades and fathered at least six children with her, according to police and state-run news reports Sunday.
The woman, identified as 42-year-old Elisabeth F., has been missing since 1984, when she was 18 years old, police said at a news conference.
The situation came to light earlier this month after her daughter -- a 19-year-old woman, identified as Kristen F. -- was hospitalized in Amstetten after falling unconscious, according to police.
She was admitted to a hospital in Amstetten, outside Vienna, by her grandfather with a note from her biological mother requesting help. Amstetten is a rural town about 150 km (93 miles) west of Vienna.
But police said a DNA test later revealed her grandfather, Josef F., was also her father, according to ORF, Austria's state-run news agency.
That sparked a police investigation, which revealed that Josef F. may have fathered at least six children with his daughter, forcing her and three of the surviving children to live in the cellar of his house, according to ORF's Peter Schmitzberger.
The children are now between 5 and 19 years old.
Police are awaiting DNA tests to verify their relationship to Josef F., who faces arrest for "severe crimes against family members," according to police. So far, he has not given a statement to police.
Police spokesman Franz Polzer told ORF that the 73-year-old has led police to several hidden rooms in his cellar accessible only by an electronic passcode that he provided to police.
On Sunday, police searched the hidden rooms where Josef F. admitted he kept his daughter and their children, Polzer told ORF. The rooms included sleeping quarters, a kitchen and a bathroom, which Josef F. told police he built, Polzer said. Neighbors told ORF they were shocked to hear the news, and had no indication such horrors were taking place in their town.
"One can't imagine how it could happen, how nobody could realize anything of what was going on in the cellar of this house," Schmitzberger told CNN. "It's quite unimaginable."
Acting on "a confidential tip," Amstetten police apprehended Josef F. and Elisabeth F. on Saturday near the hospital for questioning, according to a police statement. Once police assured the daughter that she would never have contact with her father again, "she was able to tell the whole story," Schmitzberger said.
Josef F. lived upstairs with his wife, Rosemarie F., who police said had no idea about her husband's other family living in the cellar.
Josef F. and Rosemarie F. had adopted three of the children that he had with his daughter, according to police. He told his wife that his missing daughter had dropped the unwanted children off at the house because she could not take care of them, police said.
The other three children -- Kerstin, 19; Stefan, 18; and Felix, 5 -- remained locked in the basement with their mother, according to police. None had seen the light of day during their entire time in captivity, police said.
After she was detained Saturday, Elisabeth F. gave police a "psychologically and physically disturbed impression," police said in a statement. She told them her story after she was assured her children would be protected from further harm.
She said her father began sexually abusing her at age 11. On August 8, 1984 -- weeks before she was reported missing -- her father enticed her into the basement, where he drugged her, put her in handcuffs and locked her in a room, she told police. For the next 24 years, she was constantly raped by her father, resulting in the six surviving children, she said, according to the police statement.
She told police she gave birth to twins in 1996, but one of the babies died a few days later as a result of neglect, and Josef F. removed the infant's body and burned it.
She told police that only her father supplied her and her children with food and clothing, and that she did not think his wife knew anything about their situation.
When Kerstin fell ill earlier this month, Josef F. apparently told his wife and the hospital that his "missing" daughter had dropped off the sick girl on his doorstep.
In an effort to find out what might be ailing 19-year-old Kerstin, the hospital asked the media to put out a bulletin requesting any information about the girl or her missing mother, attorney general Gerhard Sedlacek told NTV.
Sometime later, Josef F. brought Elisabeth F. out of the cellar, telling his wife that she had returned home with her two children after a 24-year absence, police said.
He took Elisabeth F. to the hospital to talk with doctors about Kerstin's condition, and at that point, authorities became aware of her situation, Sedlacek said.
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Posted: Mon Apr 28th, 2008 02:06 am |
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| This is so sad! Her and her childrens mind will be messed up forever. I wonder if he had molested any of the kids that he had with her?
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Posted: Wed Apr 30th, 2008 07:21 pm |
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| this is just plum crazy but that shows that crap like that can happen any where
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