Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search

September 5, 2008 11:48:02 PM CDT

Learn about Newser Points »

« Back to the grid | Next story »

Incest Family Members Meet for 1st Time

Posted Apr 29, 08 2:08 PM CDT in World,  Crime & Courts 

(Newser) – Members of the family in the Austrian incest case have met for the first time and interacted with "astonishing" ease, an official at the clinic where they're being treated told the AP. Although the children who were imprisoned with their mother had never met their other siblings or grandmother, their reunion on Sunday went smoothly, the clinic director said.

"It was astonishing how easily it happened—how the mother and grandmother came together," said the director. Prosecutors say they are looking into charging Josef Fritzl, who held his daughter captive for 24 years, with “murder through failure to act” of a child who died in infancy. A conviction could carry a 20-year prison sentence in addition to the 15 years he faces for rape.

Source Associated Press

0 comments | Print E-mail | Digg Seed this on Newsvine Add this link to Del.icio.us StumbleUpon

Related Newser Stories

  • Fritzls Return to House of Horrors to Help Cops

    Aug 13, 08 2:01 PM CDT
    Fritzls Return to House of Horrors to Help Cops Elisabeth Fritzl and her children have returned for the first time to the basement where they were imprisoned, the Daily Mail reports, helping police gather evidence for the trial against their father. Police wanted the family to show them precisely where and how they were held captive. The family has been cooperating with police, even crafting a thank-you poster for them. More »

  • Incest Father Fritzl May Face Slavery Charges

    Aug 4, 08 8:49 AM CDT
    Incest Father Fritzl May Face Slavery Charges Josef Fritzl, the Austrian who imprisoned daughter Elisabeth in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, may be charged with slavery, among other crimes, the Guardian reports. Officials plan to ready the case against him by September for a December trial, said a prosecutor. Fritzl has admitted to locking up his daughter and raping her, detectives say.
    More »

  • Police Question Dungeon Daughter

    Jul 11, 08 9:40 AM CDT
    Police Question Dungeon Daughter Elizabeth Fritzl won’t have to appear in court to give her account of her dungeon nightmare. Fritzl, who was imprisoned by her father for 24 years and forced to bear him seven children, was questioned in a secret location today, police announced, and will be interviewed again Monday.  Authorities will play the taped interview in court, the AP reports, sparing Elizabeth from being in the room with her father, who she has said she never wants to see again. More »

  • Dungeon Girl Will Make Full Recovery: Docs

    Jun 11, 08 10:47 AM CDT
    Dungeon Girl Will Make Full Recovery: Docs A teenager who spent her life imprisoned in an Austrian cellar will recover fully and “develop normally” after major organ failure, said doctors at the hospital where she was treated. Kerstin Fritzl was recently awoken from an induced coma and reunited with her mother and siblings, who now live in a house on the hospital’s campus, the BBC reports. More »

  • Fritzl Family Will Get New Identities

    May 30, 08 5:32 AM CDT
    Fritzl Family Will Get New Identities Austrian authorities are preparing new identities for dungeon dad Josef Fritzl’s entire family, including the daughter he imprisoned in a celler, the six children Fritzl fathered with her, her six adult siblings and her mother. The family members have been hounded by lucrative offers for media interviews, the Times reports. More »

People are seen at the backyard of a house in Amstetten, Austria, where 73-year-old Josef Fritzl imprisoned his daughter for 24 years in a windowless basement cell and fathering seven children with...   (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)
Forensic officers enter the house of Josef Fritzl in Amstetten, Austria, Tuesday, April 29, 2008.   (AP Photo/Hans Punz)
People are seen near the backyard of a house in Amstetten, Austria, where 73-year-old Josef Fritzl has confessed to imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in a windowless basement cell and fathering seven...   (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)
The exterior of josef Fritzl's apartment block is seen in Amstetten, Austria, Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Police say 73-year-old Fritzl confessed Monday to holding his daughter, now 42, in a windowless cell...   (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)
Media gather near to the apartment in Amstetten, Austria, on Monday, April 28, 2008, where Josef Fritzl imprisoned and abused his own daughter for 24-years in a cellar and fathered seven children with...   (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
Arerial view of the building in Amstetten, Austria, center right, with green rooftop garden, where 73-year-old Josef Fritzl imprisoned his daughter for 24 years in a windowless basement cell and fathering...   (AP Photo/inflight gmbh)
« Prev« Prev | Next »Next » Slideshow
Our editors also recommend:

Threads (1 of 2)

Tags

kidnapping  • child abuse  • Josef Fritzl  • incest  • Austria  • Amstetten, Austria  • child rape


Loading...

Premium Articles from HighBeam

Find more articles like this

Today's Most Popular


Other Crime & Courts Stories

What is Newser?

2008 Codie Finalist

Newser gives you more news in less time. We search for the best and most important stories all over the web, read them for you, and deliver concise and sharp summaries—along with links to the full text. Newser provides a way to stay on top of an ever-expanding horizon of news and opinion—politics, sports, business, trends, technology, personalities, crimes, and controversies. Newser keeps you not just better informed, but, with our signature graphic interface and smart condensed format, more enjoyably informed.

Learn more »