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Fritzl Owes Millions, Further Clouding Kids' Future

Posted May 4, 08 9:22 AM CDT in World,  Crime & Courts 

(Newser) – Dungeon dad Josef Fritzl is millions of euros in debt, adding to the challenge of his daughter’s recovery from years of sexual abuse and imprisonment, and the children's painful adaptation to the outside world, the Guardian reports. Now in a clinic near their old home, the family’s recuperation will take years, experts say.

There are signs that Fritz was planning to release his captives; he had forced Elisabeth to write a letter in which she said she wanted to come back, "but it's not possible yet." "He may have recognized that he couldn't keep the thing going forever," says a police official. "Or perhaps he was no longer attracted to his anaemic, ailing daughter who now looked as old as her mother," speculates the Guardian. Meanwhile, Elisabeth can’t explain her father’s actions. “My father simply chose me for himself,” she told officials.

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The Mauer hospital, where the imprisoned family went for psychological therapy.   (Getty Images)
Two policemen are seen at the backyard entrance of the Fritzl house, Saturday, May 3, 2008.   (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)
A car drives past the front of the Fritzl house in Amstetten, Lower Austria, Saturday, May 3, 2008.   (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)
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