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Docs Bringing Fritzl Daughter Out of Coma

Posted May 27, 08 2:22 PM CDT in World,  Crime & Courts 

(Newser) – Doctors are attempting to bring Kerstin Fritzl—the girl Josef Fritzl fathered with his own daughter in an Austrian dungeon—out of an induced coma, the Guardian reports. Kerstin, 19, was admitted to hospital April 19 with multiple organ failure, and was sent into a coma to give her time to recover.

Doctors say they will take Kerstin off her medication gradually, and that they can't tell for sure how long it will take for her to wake up. Kerstin's admission led to the discovery of the basement dungeon where Josef Fritzl, 73 and currently in police custody, kept daughter Elisabeth and three of the seven children he fathered with her.

Source Guardian (UK)

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Dr. Berthold Kepplinger, medical head of 'Mauer' hospital where the family of Josef Fritzl are being psychologically treated, speaks during a press conference.   (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)
Dr. Berthold Kepplinger, medical head of the 'Mauer' hospital where the family of Josef Fritzl is being psychologically treated, is seen during a press conference near Amstetten, Austria.   (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)
A man looks at a poster painted by victims of the Fritzl incest crime at the main square in Amstetten, Austria, on Wednesday, May 14, 2008.   (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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