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A 73-year-old Austrian is under arrest on suspicion of hiding his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering seven children with her, police say.
The existence of the woman, believed missing since 1984 and now 42, emerged after a teenage child fell ill and had to be taken to hospital.
Both the woman and teenage girl are receiving medical treatment and the other children are in care.
A police investigation in Amstetten, Lower Austria Province, is continuing.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7370016.stm
The suspect, named only as Josef F, was arrested on suspicion of incest and keeping his daughter in captivity. He has not responded to the charges against him, police say.
One of the children the man allegedly fathered died in infancy, police believe.
Three children, including the 19-year-old, were allegedly kept in the cellar with their mother while the other three reportedly grew up with their grandparents.
DNA tests will be taken to establish whether Josef F was indeed their father.
Placed in care
The alleged crimes came to light after the teenager, named as Kerstin F, was dropped off at the Amstetten hospital last weekend.
Police are searching the house
Finding Kerstin seriously ill, doctors appealed for her mother, who at that time was assumed to be missing, to come forward to provide more details about her medical history.
Josef F allegedly then released the mother and two other children from the cellar, telling his wife Rosemarie that she had chosen to return home, police say.
It was not immediately clear how police were alerted.
The mother, named as Elisabeth F, has been receiving medical and psychological treatment since being discovered.
She appeared “greatly disturbed” psychologically during questioning and 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, police added.
The six children are three boys and three girls aged between five and 20.
Police spokesman Franz Polzer told reporters they had been taken to a safe location.
“They are all in psychological care in a secure institution in a clinic here in this area,” he said.
“They are being cared for individually – those between 12 and 16 years of age who grew up with their grandparents, and two boys who, when they came out yesterday with their mother, saw the daylight for the first time in their lives.”
The three children who grew up with their grandparents were left at birth outside the house, the first accompanied by a note from Elisabeth in which she said she could not care for the baby herself.
All three were taken in by Josef and his wife as foster or adopted children, police said.
‘Dead baby burnt’
The police issued a statement giving details of the alleged abuses Elisabeth recounted to them.
She said she had been sexually abused by her father since the age of 11.
Josef allegedly lured her into the cellar of their house in Amstetten on 28 August 1984, drugging and handcuffing her before locking her up.
It was assumed she had disappeared voluntarily when her parents received a letter from her asking them not to search for her.
“Abused continuously during the 24-year-long imprisonment”, Elisabeth bore six children while a seventh, one of a set of twins, died soon after birth.
The dead baby was allegedly taken out of the cellar and burnt by Josef.
Elisabeth said Josef had provided her and three of her children, who were locked up along with her, with clothing and food.
His wife Rosemarie had allegedly not been aware of what was going on.
The discovery of another Austrian woman, who was held captive in a cellar by an abductor for more than eight years, gripped the country in 2006.
Natascha Kampusch finally escaped from her kidnapper, 44-year-old Wolfgang Priklopil, who killed himself shortly afterwards.
Ms Kampusch was abducted at the age of 10 in 1998 and held in a small, windowless cellar beneath Priklopil’s garage in the commuter town of Strasshof, 25km (15 miles) outside Vienna.
Jesus that is er…. sick… amazing that it could happen and plain fecking weird… and how could the wife really say she knew nothing about it ? that seems weird on its own, dont u visit your own cellar in 24 years ?
gawd read that in horror poor woman and the kids, they aint going to get over that in a hurry this is where hanging is deservedly right, sick b@stard.what sort of sicko would do that to his own daughter, makes me sick just thinking about it.
sh!t that is just twisted, a horrific insight into the sort of monstrosities that man can commitI bet the Mathews and McCanns feel like fckin Amatuers now!
Yes i know it’s bad….but you know someone was gonna say it eventually
I assume that the Austrian sicko’s wife knew what was going on …. hard for her not to really eh? …. I wonder if the Austrian Police will procecuter HER ????
Why couldn’t he of had a Bar or Pool table in the cellar like everyone else :roll:
@chickenman wrote:
Why couldn’t he of had a Bar or Pool table in the cellar like everyone else :roll:
Maybe this will give him an idea for a defence:
I just popped down to the bar in the cellar for a couple of beers … and one thing led to another etc etc !!! It wasn’t my fault guv’nor. Bloody wife can’t play snooker anyway.
i wonder if he abused any of his grandchildren / children too and what the lives of the 3 he fostered/adopted was like for them and what about his other 6 children elizabeths siblings i suppose it will all come to light eventually.
Still seeing it on the news makes me feel sick everytime shame he is 73 really if he was sentenced to death he isnt losing much of his life at that age, sick f.ucker deserves major suffering, as does his wife i find it hard to believe she knew nothing of this.
:evil: :evil:I read this today and it made me shiver. That lady and her kids are going to be so messed up. It reminded me a bit of that book…,. Flowers in the attic :shock:
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