Wondering

[shepgirl]

If anyone watched the news and saw the father who kept his daughter a captive in a sounproof room in the basement of his home and fathered kids with her, don't remember how many -around 7 I think. That poor girl has been locked up since 18 yrs old and her father abused her during all this time, I think he's around 70 now. The story struck such horror in me that I didn't get all the details straight. This happened in Austria. It was discovered because one of the children got sick and was taken to hospital where the DNA proved the man was the father. Not a pretty story, the poor girl is now 42, but is finally free.

[NicoleLJ]

http://news.theage.com.au/austrian-a...0428-28y1.html

I think this is the story you are talking about. I saw it also online.

"A 73-year-old Austrian man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a windowless cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, police say.

A 42-year-old woman had told police on Sunday that her father, Josef Fritzl, lured her into the basement of the block where they lived in the town of Amstetten in 1984 and drugged and handcuffed her before imprisoning her."

full story at the link provided.
Nicole

[Catty1]

The 19 year old daughter was taken to hospital as an emergency - and her mom managed to slip an SOS note into the daughter's clothing.

It wasn't until the mom was told that she would not have to deal with that man any more and her kids would be safe, that she finally told the whole story.

I pray that, somehow, they can recover.

That man...there are no words for that...

And if his wife really did not know, she must be living in a total h*** right now...

[IRescue452]

The wife had to know, unless she is mentally handicapped, brainwashed, or just as sick as the man. Over 20 years and she never wondered what he did in the basement everyday? She never wondered who he was feeding (4 people down there)? Not one person wondered about the 3 kids his grandparents were taking care of? How does a grown man get hold of three random children with no story and ask his parents to care for them?

[momoffuzzyfaces]

The wife had to know, unless she is mentally handicapped, brainwashed, or just as sick as the man. Over 20 years and she never wondered what he did in the basement everyday? She never wondered who he was feeding (4 people down there)? Not one person wondered about the 3 kids his grandparents were taking care of? How does a grown man get hold of three random children with no story and ask his parents to care for them?

Yea, and didn't she wonder where her daughter went?

[Catty1]

Maybe not when hubby is such a dictator and she learned to not question anything.