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Flowers In The Cellar
As mentioned previously, there's a 56-year-old man currently on trial in the UK who is being called the British Josef Fritzl because he allegedly raped his two daughters consistently during a 25-year period, during which he impregnated them 19 times in total. According to the Guardian, "His younger daughter told of the frightening habit her father had of putting her head next to the flames of their gas fire and that when she struggled to get away on certain occasions she burnt her eyes." For a timeline of this story, click on the picture at left. [Guardian, Guardian]
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Prosecutors announced today that Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who imprisoned his daughter in his basement for 24 years and fathered her 7 children, has been charged with the murder of one of his children who died in infancy. He has also been charged with rape, incest, false imprisonment and slavery. Fritzl is the first Austrian to be tried on a slavery charge. He is expected to go to trial in early 2009. [AP]
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More Fritzl horror: In a psychological examination for his upcoming tiral, Fritzl claims that he locked his mother in a bricked-up room in her house from 1959 until her death in 1980. In the same interview Fritzl says he never thought of his daughter as a daughter but more as his "wife and partner." [Telegraph]
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Leftovers
UK Female Pioneers Get Own Stamps • Josef Fritzl Declared Clincally Sane
• The British Royal Mail has issued stamps for six female pioneers, including family planning activist Marie Stopes and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first British woman to qualify as a doctor. • Some activists, however, are upset about the inclusion of Ms. Stopes getting her own stamp since she famously supported eugenics and expressed Nazi sympathies later in her life. • An Australian PSA warns parents about buying alcohol for their kids by laying the blame on drunk girls (and their parents) who get raped at parties. • A 72-year-old woman vacated her apartment in Delaware when she discovered six baby snakes in her bathroom and bed last month. • More » -
Flowers in the Cellar
Central Europe Is Becoming The Terrifying Incest Capital Of The World
Consider Jezebel your source for all nightmare-inducing horrific incest dungeon stories, because there's another one hitting European papers: A 45-year-old Polish man named Krzysztof B. has held his now 21-year-old daughter Alicja captive since 2002 in their rural home. In that time, he's allegedly fathered Alicja's two children and forced her to give them up for adoption. Sound vaguely familiar? Well Krzysztof is being called "Polish Fritzl" after the terrifying Austrian psycho Josef Fritzl, who fathered seven children by his captive daughter, Elisabeth. And speaking of the unfortunate Fritzl clan, 42-year-old Elisabeth, who was held captive for more than two decades, has finally spoken publicly about her father's ultra-violence. More » -
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Italian Woman Held Captive Nearly Two Decades For Having Bastard Baby
And you thought it was just the Austrians who were sick fucks: 47-year-old Maria Monaco of Italy, much like 42-year-old Elisabeth Fritzl of Austria, was found captive in her mother's house after 18 years of imprisonment. Upon receiving an anonymous tip, police found Monaco locked in a room where she was "surrounded by filth and cigarette butts," according to the IHT. At left, you'll see a photo of the noxious bathroom attached to Monaco's locked bedroom. While police suspect that Maria's mother, Anna Rosa Golino, had imprisoned Maria because she had a child out of wedlock, the family is insisting that Maria was locked up because she had severe mental problems. Gianfranco Carbone, Golino's lawyer, told the IHT, "The family was only trying to be discreet… [Maria] has serious psychological problems and refused to undergo any therapy. The family was ashamed for her." More » -
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Kerstin Fritzl, whom the press is calling "Cellar Girl", has woken from her medically induced coma. The 19-year-old was unconscious and critically ill when she was admitted to the hospital in April — having spent her whole life in the basement of her grandfather/father, Josef Fritzl. According to the Daily Mail, "Doctors realized she was getting better when they saw her dancing in bed to a Robbie Williams track." Now that she is awake, Kerstin has two requests: To go on a boat ride and to see Robbie Williams in concert. [Daily Mail] (Related: Robbie Williams naked.)
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Natascha Kampusch, the other Austrian woman who was locked in a cellar for several years, is starting a new gig as a tv talk show host. "So much has been written about me, and so many people want to know what it's like to be on the other side [of the interviewer's table]," Kampusch said in a press conference with Austrian media. This just…seems wrong. Kampusch's only qualification seems to be her infamy. Are infamy and fame the same thing these days? Is she so used to press attention that she needs to find a way to spin it into a career? [AP]
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Kerstin Fritzl, the granddaughter of "dungeon monster" Josef Fritzl, has woken from her medically induced coma. The Fritzls — Elisabeth, her six children and her mother, sans Josef — are now recovering in a psychiatric clinic in Austria. A source close to the family tells British tabloid The Mirror, "Elisabeth and family are very happy, but... Kerstin's incredibly fragile. She'll be in bed a long time - probably months." [Mirror]
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Paparazzi Hound Rape Victim Elisabeth Fritzl Into Public Press Appearance
Celebrities know what they're getting into, paparazzi apologists will argue, dismissing the constant haranguing mega-stars and their reality TV counterparts experience at the hands of photographers. But Elisabeth Fritzl, the Austrian woman who was locked in the family cellar for 24 years by her deranged father, Josef, and in the meantime impregnated with seven children against her will, never asked for any publicity, and yet, photographers are camped outside the private hospital she's been living in since she and her children surfaced last month. Elisabeth has reportedly agreed to a television interview, and people close to the case think she has submitted to a public appearance merely to get rid of the constant swarm of aggressive lensmen. Seventeen photographers have been arrested so far, according to the Daily Mail, and just this past weekend "a security guard at the hospital was injured after he fell from a balcony while tackling a photographer." More »
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