Josef Fritzl & Elisabeth Fritzl :

The dungeon/cellar elisabeth was locked up :

( Find more pictures yourself )

( Police found that Mr Fritzl had installed a reinforced concrete door to lock up the inmates in the cellar. It could only be opened by a remote control electronic device with a numerical code - and Mr Fritzl kept hold of the device. The door was hidden behind shelves.

The cellar was divided into cells - some parts were no more than 1.70m (5.6ft) high. A narrow corridor led into the cellar, which had a cooking and sleeping area, a small bathroom with a shower, and a padded cell. A tube provided ventilation. )


Elisabeth was forced to bear seven of her father's children. Six children survived; One of the babies, a twin, died shortly after birth ( Police have said Fritzl has admitted to burning the body of the seventh child when it died soon after birth ) and only three of them were taken upstairs and adopted by Josef Fritzl and his wife, Rosemarie.

The three remaining children: Kirsten, age 19, Stefan age 18 and Felix, age 5, were imprisoned in the cellar and never saw daylight, never been out in the fresh air, never met anyone other than Josef Fritzl, never went to school, never had any medical or dental care...

Elisabeth Fritzl, 42, says her father lured her into the cellar of their home in 1984 and drugged and handcuffed her before imprisoning her.

" Family " tree : pictures of Fritzl family ( you can see 3 of the upstairs children are quite talented in music. )

How did the case come to light?

On 19 April, the oldest child incarcerated with Elisabeth, 19-year-old Kerstin, fell seriously ill and was admitted to hospital. Elisabeth was very worried about her and persuaded Mr Fritzl to let Kerstin go to hospital, where she arrived in a coma. Hospital staff then alerted police, and the search began for Elisabeth. Mr Fritzl let her and the other two inmates - Stefan, 18, and Felix, five - out of the cellar.

The doctor, treating the 19-year-old Kerstin, Albert Reiter, said on Tuesday her condition was critical and her artificially induced coma would continue for several more days.
"Our patient is in a severely life-threatening condition which resulted from a lack of oxygen caused sometime between Wednesday and Friday when she was admitted," Reiter told German broadcaster N24.

The Austrian authorities have put the six children into care. Social workers say the five-year-old is "in excellent health". There are no details on the health of the others, because of Austrian privacy rules. Experts believe they may have suffered serious trauma, requiring specialist treatment.

Josef Fritzl: the unanswered questions. ( For more details. )

Fritzl faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted on rape charges, the most grave of his alleged offenses ?!?!??!?!!??!?! However, prosecutors said Tuesday they were investigating whether he can be charged with "murder through failure to act" in connection with the infant's death, which is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

Fritzl's lawyer, Rudolf Mayer, said his client was under psychiatric care. Asked whether he showed any remorse, Mayer said: "I cannot say at this point."

Fritzl "is really hit by this. He is very serious, but he is emotionally broken," Mayer told The Associated Press.

RUBBISH

Another news i found :

Little friend of a lifetime:

The heartbreaking friendship between two tiny girls with cancer

Very very touching.

Hannah Forrester, right, with Molly - the little girl who gave her a reason to fight her cancer.

ENDING :

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