Posted on 05/03/2008 1:37:04 PM PDT by austrian
This is the weirdest story to me - I thought at first the girl was 11 - but he waited until she was 18? to put her in the cellar? What an awful story....
Weeks? How big is this dungeon?
This is the weirdest story to me - I thought at first the girl was 11 - but he waited until she was 18? to put her in the cellar? What an awful story....
Do you have a link to a news article that says this? Everything I have read is that he forced her to write a letter saying that she had run off with a cult so her mother would think she had run away, and then he imprisoned her. I have never read anything that said she had run away on her own.
sorry i cannot provide a link for that i watched it in the news on austrian TV
There were no air shafts? How did they breathe down there?
It was a pretty large cellar, and the man received permission from the town to build it as a shelter during the nuclear threats of the 80’s.
Well, at least we TRY to save children....despite the Freepers who defend the FDLS against the “authorities”.
I bet those children wish they had CPS.
That is why we so aggressively at least investigate any possible child abuse.
“Mr. Fritzl is refusing to answer any more questions”
Oh, is he, now? Perhaps, Mr. Fritzl needs to be introduced to ‘waterboarding.’
Sounds like there’s another thread I’m not following that you’re still upset about?
I did see that—she was the only one who fought against him....how strange her siblings just ignored what happened, no one in that family could possibly believe she’d just go and not be in touch.
Imagine living in that environment for 24 years!!! Apparently, Elisabeth's 2 boys talk in grunts and groans and cannot even stand up straight.
Every time I read more information on this whole tragedy.....I shake my head in disbelief....
I send up prayers every day for Elisabeth and her children....
I am just comparing the FDLS ( where neighbors were “clueless” so they say) and many Freeprs got so upset focusing on the “government” taking the children out ( going overboard !)and here we have a situation where there was not a tough enough protection for abused children...oh, yeah and the “neighbors” were once again “clueless.”
Evil can exist when good men do nothing ( not sure who said that...?)
this is the most horrible story i ever have heard in my life. i can not even imagine what hell this poor woman and her kids have went through in this 24 YEARS!! this is heart breaking.
Euroweenies will convict Mr. Fritzl of a minor charge. He will be out of prison in less than 10 years.
austrian law.
kidnapping 10 - 20 years.
rape 5 - 15 years.
so i guess since he is 73 he will die in prison.
ah - apples and orange comparison.
Those never work well.
But I think we can agree that it is good this woman is finally out of the cellar, I hope she gets the help she needs to lead a full 2nd half of her life.
Edmund Burke.
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