Thursday, May 8, 2008
The man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children said he knew his actions were wrong and that he "must have been crazy," according to comments published Thursday.
Josef Fritzl also said in remarks relayed by his lawyer to the Austrian magazine News that he tried to care for his secret family members, taking flowers, books and stuffed toys to them in the dingy dungeon below his home in the town of Amstetten.
The lawyer, Rudolf Mayer, confirmed to The Associated Press that Fritzl made the remarks from a prison in the city of St. Poelten, where he is being held in pretrial detention.
"I constantly knew, over the entire 24 years, that what I did was not right, that I must have been crazy because I did something like this," Fritzl was quoted as saying.
The case came to light last month, and 73-year-old Fritzl has since confessed to locking up his daughter Elisabeth in 1984, repeatedly raping her and fathering her seven children. Fritzl met for the first time with a prosecutor on Wednesday.
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