Tuesday, April 29, 2008
DNA tests have confirmed that Josef Fritzl fathered six children with his daughter, whom he kept imprisoned under his home for 24 years, police in Austria said Tuesday.
Authorities have said that a seventh child, also apparently fathered by Fritzl, died shortly after birth.
A police spokesman also said authorities believed it was "improbable" that Fritzl was hiding other people in another location.
The 73-year-old appeared in court Tuesday as Austrians struggled to come to terms with its second horrific abduction case in two years.
The retired electrical engineer faces a possible 15 years in prison if charged and convicted of rape.
In court, he appeared calm and showed no emotion, according to an Austrian reporter present. Fritzl spoke, saying that he wanted to redeem himself, said Sabrine Arndt, of Pro7/Sat1 TV station.
The female judge presiding said he would be kept in custody, the reporter said, but gave no indication for how long.
Fritzl was on Monday moved from the town of Amstetten -- where he kept his now 42-year-old daughter Elisabeth and three of her children in the cellar of his house -- to the courthouse in nearby St. Poelten, the provincial capital of Lower Austria.
The central European country's newspapers were filled with details of the case, which has shocked the nation.
"Horror father breaks silence," "Hiding a double life without wife knowing" and "Soundproof dungeon behind 300kg steel door" were headlines in Die Kronen Zeitung.
It also ran a story questioning how people could survive deprived of sunlight for so long.
Die Presse went with "The man who deceived the world" and also accused authorities of allowing the atrocities to happen.
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Authorities have said that a seventh child, also apparently fathered by Fritzl, died shortly after birth.
A police spokesman also said authorities believed it was "improbable" that Fritzl was hiding other people in another location.
The 73-year-old appeared in court Tuesday as Austrians struggled to come to terms with its second horrific abduction case in two years.
The retired electrical engineer faces a possible 15 years in prison if charged and convicted of rape.
In court, he appeared calm and showed no emotion, according to an Austrian reporter present. Fritzl spoke, saying that he wanted to redeem himself, said Sabrine Arndt, of Pro7/Sat1 TV station.
The female judge presiding said he would be kept in custody, the reporter said, but gave no indication for how long.
Fritzl was on Monday moved from the town of Amstetten -- where he kept his now 42-year-old daughter Elisabeth and three of her children in the cellar of his house -- to the courthouse in nearby St. Poelten, the provincial capital of Lower Austria.
The central European country's newspapers were filled with details of the case, which has shocked the nation.
"Horror father breaks silence," "Hiding a double life without wife knowing" and "Soundproof dungeon behind 300kg steel door" were headlines in Die Kronen Zeitung.
It also ran a story questioning how people could survive deprived of sunlight for so long.
Die Presse went with "The man who deceived the world" and also accused authorities of allowing the atrocities to happen.
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This story is unbelievable...there is no way the mother knew NOTHING!
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