Officials said Elisabeth and her children are receiving psychiatric treatment in an undisclosed location. "The children just kind of had this connection, they just got on straight away," Hill said. The other child raised in captivity has been hospitalized due to an illness. Hospital officials said two of the three children who had grown up in the basement cell met their siblings, who were raised by their grandparents, on Sunday. Hill told CBC News that one of the boys had seen the moon for the first time when he was taken from his home by police. None of the three had ever been outside of the tiny cramped cellar where they were born. "It was astonishing how easily it happened - how the mother and grandmother came together," clinic director Berthold Kepplinger told reporters Tuesday.Įlisabeth's other three surviving children, now aged 19, 18 and 5, were confined in the basement with their mother. Hill said psychologists observed the reunions on Sunday and determined that Rosemarie had indeed been unaware of her daughter's presence in the house, and her ordeal. Wife and daughter reuniteĪlso Tuesday, it was revealed that Rosemarie Fritzl and her daughter had an emotional reunion and Elisabeth also met the three children who had been raised upstairs by her parents, freelance journalist David Hill told CBC News from Amstetten. Three of the children born in the basement were raised by Fritzl and his wife, Rosemarie, who remained unaware of the horrors taking place in her home, police said.įritzl had told his wife that Elisabeth had run away from home at age 18 to join a religious cult and had sent three of her children to be raised by her parents.ĭNA test results released Tuesday confirmed that Fritzl is the biological father of the children born while his daughter was in captivity. One of the infants died shortly after it was born, and Josef Fritzl has admitted he burned the body. ![]() She endured repeated sexual assaults and gave birth to seven children in the tiny, cramped basement rooms. He faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted on rape charges, but prosecutors said Tuesday they were examining the possibility of charging Fritzl with "murder through failure to act" in connection with the death of one of the children, which carries a maximum term of 20 years.Įlisabeth Fritzl, 42, said her father first lured her into the windowless cellar that became her prison cell in the town of Amstetten, west of Vienna, in 1984. He is in a cell where he can be monitored in case he tries to commit suicide, said officials. Prosecutor Gerhard Sedlacek said Fritzl was "completely calm, completely without emotion" when he was placed in pretrial detention Tuesday. Poelten, the capital of the province of Lower Austria. Josef Fritzl appeared before a district magistrate Monday evening and was referred to a higher court in St. ![]() An Austrian man who confessed to locking his daughter in a basement cell for 24 years and fathering her seven children was ordered held in police detention Tuesday as details surfaced of the reunion between the now 42-year-old woman and her mother.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |