Man Locks Daughter in Basement for 24 Years

By now most of you have read the story about the Austrian man who locked his daughter in a basement for 24 years and fathered 7 children with her one of which was a twin that died at birth supposedly. We weren’t even going to write about this sick news story until we read about what type of sentence he faces. We couldn’t even find a category to post this under so we had to make a new one up called sick news storys.

The mans name is Josef Fritzl who is 73 years old and from Austria. He is accused of locking his daughter in the basement of his families home when she was just 17 years old. That was on August 28th, 1984. Can you even imagine being locked in a basement with no windows for 24 years along with your children that were born in the basement. The oldest daughter of the daughter that was locked in the basement after she was born is 19 years old and she is fighting for her life in a hospital right now with an undisclosed illness. Just keep Reading the numbers of how long these children and the adult daughter were without any outside life or world.

From what we have gathered the Father reportedly has abused his daughter since she was 12 years old before holding her hostage in the locked basement when she was 17 years old where he continued to rape her for 24 more years before finally having to admit it to the police in April of 2008. Here is what we don’t understand.

Supposedly the maximum sentence that he can receive is 15 years in prison. 15 years in prison for rape is the maximum sentence and if they can prove “murder through failure to act” because one of the children that he fathered died in the basement when born he would still only get a maximum sentence of 20 years. WTF, that’s less time than the oldest daughter who is 43 now I believe spent locked up in the basement and about the same amount of time that the daughter he fathered with his daughter has been locked in the basement without freedom.

No way should Josef Fritzl be sentenced to only 15 to 20 years for the sick stuff that he has done. Rape, murder, incest and kidnapping in my opinion. He deserves a life sentence for what he has put these kids through even though most likely if he does get 20 years that will be the rest of his life that he spends in jail seeing how he is 73 years old now. Word is that he will be pleading insanity in the case of course.

There is a good timeline of how it all happened over the years at the BBC website Here.  

I can’t imagine the physiological problems that the family are dealing with right now. There is a pretty good video with an interview by MSNBC with Dr. Jeff Gardere who is a clinical Psychologist about what the kids and mother are going through and will have to deal with in their future. There is also a a new video of pictures of the part basement where these poor victims were held.

 

Pictures of the basement where the Father held his daughter in the video below!



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May 4, 2008 | Filed Under Sick News Storys 

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One Response to “Man Locks Daughter in Basement for 24 Years”

  1. Anonymous on July 13th, 2008 10:08 pm

    He shouldnt Die. HE SHOULD BE TORTURED! To be honest I think being torture is worse than being killed.

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