![]() His lawyer Rudolf Mayer said he would do it "as a way of supporting his family". Last night it emerged that Fritzl is to write his memoirs about life in the cellar. His actions then exposed the horror of the dungeon beneath Fritzl's home.ĭr Reiter said: "They have all shown remarkable bravery." It was Dr Reiter who, when Kerstin was brought to him suffering multiple organ failure on April 19 last year, started a one-man campaign to track down the mother of his seriously ill patient. Rebuilding that is a difficult task made worse by the fact that every one of the children have different problems.īut they are getting stronger week by week."ĭr Albert Reiter, who exposed the plight of the cellar family, also paid tribute to their strength but says he is now taking a back seat. In a bid to speed up Kerstin's recovery, Elisabeth secretly took her to court last week to see Fritzl face justice and get a life sentence.Įlisabeth appears to have little love for her mum Rosemarie and has cut all ties.Ĭarers have been amazed at the strength she has displayed in coping after her ordeal.īerthold Kepplinger, head of the clinic where the family spent 196 days following their dungeon ordeal, said: "Regardless of whether the children were from upstairs or downstairs, the fact is that their world collapsed in April last year. Kerstin spends a lot of time listening to music while Stefan watches television, plays on the computer and tends fish in an aquarium.īoth receive tutoring at home to make up for the education they missed. They still suffer from nightmares, panic attacks and compulsive-obsessive disorders.īoth find it impossible to sleep in rooms when the door is closed. ![]() Kerstin and Stefan have taken longer to adjust to their new life. Lisa, 16, Monika, 14, and Alexander 12, who were taken to live upstairs by Fritzl, all attend normal schools.Įlisabeth feels so secure in her new village that she even takes them to school.įelix plays in the garden every day, although he still has to wear dark glasses to cope with sunlight. Doctors are particularly concerned about how the "downstairs" children, Kerstin, 20, Stefan, 18, and Felix, six, will cope in their new home because of the damage done to their immune systems through years without sunlight.īut since Christmas, Elisabeth has insisted she is allowed as much time away from carers to spend time with all six of her children to help them bond.Īnd despite reports to the contrary, the family are all living under their real names. Her six surviving children - one died as a baby when Fritzl, 73, refused to get medical help - also make the weekly drive to the Amstetten Maur Psychiatric Clinic for therapy. August 1984 seine damals 18-jährige Tochter Elisabeth in den Keller des Hauses gelockt, betäubt, gefesselt und in einen eigens als Zelle vorbereiteten Raum eingesperrt - ohne. The family split their time between the new home and hospital.Įlisabeth, 42, who suffers from severe hypervigilance - which means she constantly wants to check on her children - has regular therapy sessions. But, in a touching display of sympathy, they leave them alone and keep quiet about their presence. The local community of 22,000 people know the family are there. This house has no cellar.ĭoctors say the Fritzls are slowly coming to terms with their ordeal and beginning to bond as a family. With its steel fencing, video cameras, CCTV-operated gate and trees shielding the windows, the family are trying to recover from their dungeon horror. Hidden away in a secret Austrian location known as Village X, the picturesque surroundings are a world away from the dungeon in Amstetten where Elisabeth was kept for 24 years and where she bore seven children after being repeatedly raped by Fritzl. But I want to experience freedom one day.Elisabeth Fritzl and her six children have swapped the dark dungeon where they were kept by her evil father Josef for a bright orange-coloured countryside home, found for them by her brother Harald, 46. ![]() “I do understand people who want me to die in jail. “I definitely believe that I am going to see them again one day,” he said. In an interview this week with the Sun, Fritzl said he hoped to see his family again. In the book, titled The Abysses of Josef F, the prisoner said he could not understand why his wife, Rosemarie, had broken off all contact with him. Wagner said she understood his book as his way of “explaining why he went astray to such an extent”. They need to try to get to grips with their guilt.” She said she believed Fritzl, like many criminals, “has failed to recognise the dimension of his crime. Since then I’ve been his lawyer,” she told the tabloid Bild. He then sent me the manuscript and I edited it. In an interview, Wagner said she had been approached by Fritzl, asking her to help him publish his memoirs and become his lawyer. ![]() She was not found until 26 April 2008 when she was discovered in a secret cellar her father had built beneath the family home in Amstetten, Austria, and which she had inadvertently helped him to construct. His daughter Elisabeth Fritzl disappeared in 1984 at the age of 18.
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