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At first Fritzl strapped up her arms and then tied them behind her back with an iron chain, which he then secured to metal posts behind her bed. She could only move approximately half a metre either side of the bed. After two days he gave her more freedom of movement by attaching the chain around her waist. Then, about six to nine months into her imprisonment, he removed the metal chain because "it was hindering his sexual activity with his daughter", according to the indictment. He sexually abused and raped her sometimes several times a day, from the second day of her incarceration right up until her release in April Over the course of nearly a quarter of a century he would rape her at least 3, times, resulting in seven babies who themselves often had to watch the abuse as they grew older.

Three of these children were to stay underground, never seeing daylight until their release in April last year. Three others mysteriously appeared on the doorstep of Fritzl and his wife, Rosemarie, in their home in Amstetten, west of Vienna — abandoned, so Fritzl told the community, by Elisabeth, who had delivered them to him and Rosemarie from her sect, to be brought up as the Fritzls' own.

And all without arousing Rosemarie's suspicions or those of the Austrian authorities. Fritzl dictated letters to her which she wrote from her prison, driving sometimes miles in his car to post them back to his wife Rosemarie. In them, Elisabeth explained that she was well, but could not look after the children. In reality, she was torn at being separated from her children but happy that her "upstairs" offspring would at least have a better life than those languishing downstairs.

One of the children, a twin called Michael, died shortly after his birth in the cellar in He had severe breathing difficulties and expired in his mother's arms when he was just 66 hours old. Fritzl admitted he subsequently burned the baby's body in an incinerator, but — until his admission during his trial this week — always denied that he was responsible for murder through negligence. I thought the little one would survive.

Until Wednesday, Fritzl had also denied enslavement. His lawyer, Rudolf Mayer, tried to explain Fritzl's decision to imprison his daughter and force her to submit to his every whim as the act of a devoted father. Fritzl's original defence for how it all began was that Elisabeth was a wayward child, and that he was only trying to protect her by locking her away from the outside world. Drugs, drink and bad company had threatened to drag her down, he argued.

His lawyer tried to paint him as a caring man, who spent time and money maintaining both of his families - he even took a Christmas tree down into the dungeon, said Mayer.

And school books. An aquarium. Even a canary. In what now seems like a sick joke he said that the canary's ability to survive was proof that the air in the cellar could not have been that bad after all. Throughout her captivity he repeatedly threatened Elisabeth by saying: "If you do not do as I say, your treatment will get worse and you will not escape from the cellar anyway. Email us at tips the-sun. You can WhatsApp us on We pay for videos too.

Click here to upload yours. Jump directly to the content. Sign in. All Football. News World News Jenny Awford. Elisabeth was given a new name following the trial, with strict laws to prevent her identity being revealed. She now lives with her six surviving children in a tiny hamlet in the Austrian countryside, which also cannot be identified and only referred to by the country's media as 'Village X'.

The children, now aged between 18 and 32, sleep in rooms with doors permanently open after undergoing weekly therapy sessions to eliminate the traumas they suffered inside the cellar. Their two-storey family home is kept under constant CCTV surveillance and patrolled by security guards, while any stranger caught lurking nearby can expect to be picked up by police within minutes.

Jump directly to the content. He confirms to investigators that one of their children died in infancy and that he had taken the dead body and thrown it into an incinerator.

As Kerstin remains in hospital, in a serious but stable condition, Fritzl appears before a magistrate and is remanded in custody. Officials report an "astonishing" reunion between Elisabeth, now 42, and two of the three children who had lived with her in the cellar — brothers aged 15 and five — with her other children.

Later in the day hundreds of people in Amstetten take part in a candle-lit gathering to express their solidarity and outrage. Police say Fritzl refuses to answer any questions in the wake of his initial signed confession. His daughter and the children are looked after together in the isolated wing of a medical clinic, under the hour supervision of a multi-disciplinary care team. Those held captive are getting used to space, light and especially the different food, officials say.

An improvised birthday party is held for the year-old. Austria's chancellor, Alfred Gusenbauer, vows to protect the country's image with a campaign abroad, saying: "We won't allow the whole country to be held hostage by one man. Kerstin is revived from an artificial coma and joins her mother and siblings.

They move to a secret location and are given new identities. Prosecutors declare Fritzl mentally fit to stand trial. The authorities said a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation of the year-old showed that he was lucid enough to be tried, even though it said he suffered from a "profound personality disorder".

Josef Fritzl is formally charged with murdering one of the seven children that he and Elizabeth had together. The child is said to have died in the cellar shortly after birth.



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