Outrageous!!
I've been wanting to say something about this for a few days, but am having trouble coming up with diction. His name is Josef Fritzl and as the World now knows, he is accused of holding his daughter captive in an underground cell for 24 years, raping her, fathering 7 children with her, disposing of the body of one of the infants when it died after birth by tossing the body into a furnace. I am sure more will come out, but my mind is having trouble wrapping its self around the basic facts as they are too horrible, too terrible to comprehend.The American media have given a slightly watered down PG-13 version of what happened. I read an account from a European news web site the other evening which described how the children looked, what kinds of trauma they have. The problems include curvature in their spines from living in cramped, crouched positions constantly, to having practically no teeth because of decay, many have limited vocabulary and cannot find words to express themselves because the only education they recieved was through watching a small tv. They say Elisabeth, the daughter, who is around 41 or 42 looks more like her 65 year old Mother.
It blows my mind that his wife had no knowledge of the underground hell on earth he created, although relatives who are speaking out now are giving a clearer picture on the dynamics inside the family that allowed him to become such a sick tyrant. I guess the thing that really troubles me about this is the systematic nature of the abuse, and the length of time the abuse went on undetected. I was saying to my Wife the other day, I think this is about the worst crime I have ever heard of in my 44 years. There is a lot of pain in this world, but this takes the entire cake.
No punishment would be good enough or just enough for this monster. Death would be an escape, a prison cell would be too lenient. I'm so outraged by the crime I'd like to see this worthless animal really suffer, really really suffer for a long time.



