Fritzl: 'I Was Born to Rape'

But says he 'managed to contain himself' for long time
By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 22, 2008 3:15 AM CDT
Fritzl: 'I Was Born to Rape'
Josef Fritzl, right, accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering seven children with her, is taken back to his house under heavy security for a police reconstruction.   (AP Photo/Michael Wessig)

The 73-year-old Austrian father who imprisoned his daughter in a dungeon as a sex slave for 24 years and fathered seven children with her has told a therapist he is a "born rapist," reports the Times of London. Josef Fritzl's comments were revealed in a confidential psychiatric report leaked to the Austrian media.

“I have realized that I had a mean streak. For someone who was born to be a rapist, I have managed to contain myself for a relatively long period,” Fritzl told a psychiatrist. The doctor described Fritzl as "a volcano" who is "torn apart by his desires that he cannot master.”
(More Josef Fritzl stories.)

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