Father Keeping Daughter Locked Up For 24 Years

Surprized I didn't see anyone post this yet...

ummm yeah...

what do you think of this shit?

How could the wife have had no idea what was going on??? geeeezus

Man imprisons daughter 24 years
The Associated Press
11:02 am, April 28, 2008
AMSTETTEN, Austria -- A man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in windowless cell with a soundproofed door and fathering seven children with her, police said Monday.

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The man, now 73, also told investigators that he tossed the body of one of the children in an incinerator when the infant died shortly after birth, said Franz Polzer, head of the Lower Austrian Bureau of Criminal Affairs.

"We are being confronted with an unfathomable crime," Interior Minister Guenther Platter said.

The daughter, who is now 42, had been missing since 1984 and was found by police in the town of Amstetten on Saturday evening after police received a tip.

Police on Monday released several photos showing parts of the cramped basement cell, with a small bathroom and a narrow passageway leading to a tiny bedroom. Investigators said an electronic keyless-entry system apparently kept the daughter from escaping from the cell, which was made of solid reinforced concrete.

The suspect, identified by authorities as Josef F., was expected to appear in court later Monday.

"He admitted that he locked his daughter, who was 18 at the time, in the cellar, that he repeatedly had sex with her, and that he is the father of her seven children," Polzer told The Associated Press.

Three of the surviving children lived with the grandparents and were registered with authorities. The other three apparently were held captive in the cellar with their mother, Polzer told reporters.

Hans-Heinz Lenze, a senior local official, said the suspect's wife apparently had "no idea" of what went on and was devastated.

"You have to imagine that this woman's world fell apart," he said.

Austrians — still scandalized by a 2006 case involving a young woman who was kidnapped and imprisoned in a basement cell outside Vienna for more than eight years — expressed disbelief at the latest case.

"The entire nation must ask itself just what is fundamentally going wrong," the newspaper Der Standard said Monday in a commentary.

Guenter Pramreiter, who owns a bakery just down the street, told The Associated Press that the suspect and his wife would regularly buy bread and rolls, though never in large quantities.

"They appeared normal, just like any other family," Pramreiter said. "I'm totally shocked, this was next door. It's terrible."

The case unfolded after a gravely ill teenager was found unconscious on April 19 in the building where her grandparents live, and taken to a hospital in the town of Amstetten, about 75 miles west of Vienna. Authorities publicly appealed for her to come forward to help diagnose the young woman's condition.

After receiving a tip, police picked up the 42-year-old woman — identified as Elisabeth F. — and her father on Saturday close to the hospital.

Police said Elisabeth F. appeared "greatly disturbed" during questioning. She agreed to talk only after authorities assured her she would no longer have to have contact with her father and that her children would be cared for.

On Sunday evening, police said investigators had found the area where Elisabeth and three of the children were held captive. Investigators said the rooms were at most 5 feet 6 inches feet high. The area had a TV and small hot plates for cooking.

In a chronology of events outlined in a police statement, authorities said Elisabeth F. told them her father began sexually abusing her when she was 11. She told police that some years later in 1984, he sedated her, handcuffed her and locked her in the cellar.

Police said a letter written by Elisabeth had apparently surfaced a month after her disappearance, asking her parents not to search for her.

The Austria Press Agency reported that the surviving children are three boys and three girls, the youngest of whom is 5. DNA tests were expected to determine whether Josef F. is the father of the children.

Sunday's developments recalled another case that shocked Austrians in the summer of 2006, when a young woman escaped after being largely confined to a tiny underground dungeon in a quiet Vienna suburb for more than eight years.

Natascha Kampusch was 10 years old when she was kidnapped in Vienna on her way to school in March 1998. Her abductor, Wolfgang Priklopil, threw himself in front of a train just hours after her dramatic escape.

Kampusch, now 20, issued a statement Monday saying she wanted to contact Elisabeth to offer emotional and financial help.

 

Yes, I heard about this in the news today.

I'm pretty speechless.

 

The wife didnt know????!! wtf...

This is probably one of the most bizarre things I ever heard of...

 

How are those children gonna react when they're told..

 

You know what's even worse is that this kind of stuff happens all the time around the world, it's very sad...

 

I think that the worst thing I've read in a while.

I don't really have much to comment on there.

 

So the father kidnapped the daughter and the wife thought she just disappeared? And the father put on an act of grievance in front of the wife?

My God..

 

Holy crap. How could the wife not know? Does anyone here not know about all the rooms in their house? If there were rooms I was locked out of, I would have a huge problem with that.

Disgusting.

 

This guy will be tore to pieces in prison.

 

Yeah... that kind of news cannot phase you after watching "Bad Boy Bubby".

 

Yeah I can't imagine not knowing something like that was going on in your own house... very bizarre... and yeah, mojo- I suppose that is how it happened... I can't even begin to understand what type of a person could do a thing like that...
And just imagine how his wife feels finding out about something like that. i can't even begin to imagine really.

As for the punishment... yeah... I don't even think I can think of a suitable punishment...


(what is bad boy bubby?)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Boy_Bubby

 

Hmmmmm... well the difference is I'm assuming that is just a made up story.... gonna add it to my queue btw.

 

I seriously dont get how the wife cant know though. Or atleast even think something is weird with her husband, because you know, hes the kind of person who sexually abuses his daughter, locks her up and impregnates her a bunch of times.

How do you NOT know all teh rooms in the house?
And how can you not pick up anything different or weird about him grieving when theyre daughter went missing?

..so strange.

 

And how did he get the kids outta there that didn't live there... as well as her giving birth to them all there... how did that get pulled off? And what about the husband disapearing all the time....? Just seems so weird...

Would have to be something she didn't WANT to know so she didn't....

 

Whoa, this looks interesting.

 

It's a very good movie. I would recommend it to anyone who doesn't get freaked out easily.

 

Lets be reasonable, the wife knew. Just because the man who locks up his own daughter and abuses/impregnantes her for 24 years SAYS his wife didnt know....doesn't make it true. I do believe its possible for a man who can do that, to also be capable of lying to authorities....even...*dun dun dun* under oath.

 

Nah, there's not a lot of movies that can actually shock me.

I've been wanting to check out Thriller - en grym film for a while now..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072285/