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incest stories: 78 news summaries

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 Fritzl: 'I 
 Can't Go 
 Back and 
 Change It' 

Jury to decide case today

Mar 19, 09 5:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Monster dad Josef Fritzl apologized "from the bottom of my heart" today for keeping his daughter locked in a cellar as a sex slave for 24 years, then added: "I can't go back and change it." Fritzl, 73, made his remarks as an Austrian jury was about... More »

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murder • rape • Austria • trial • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • Kerstin Fritzl • Rosemarie Fritzl

(Newser) - An intriguing report has surfaced in the aftermath of Josef Fritzl’s surprise guilty plea, the Times of London reports. Though unconfirmed by lawyers on both sides, various outlets say Fritzl’s daughter, Elisabeth, secretly attended much of the Austrian court proceedings. In fact, one source says her presence may... More »

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Austria • guilty plea • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl

 Fritzl Admits All Charges 


Mar 18, 09 5:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Josef Fritzl has pleaded guilty to all counts in the indictment against him, reversing his earlier denial of the most serious counts of enslavement and murder, Reuters reports. Fritzl, who no longer hid his face in the third day of his trial today, said his daughter’s harrowing 11-hour video... More »

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 Fritzl Gets Counseling 
 for 'Ordeal of Trial' 

How about us?

Mar 17, 09 1:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Austria’s most infamous incestuous rapist has access to counseling at the prison where he is housed "to help him through the ordeal of the trial," a prison official said. But the official stressed that Josef Fritzl's care was not out of the ordinary. “There is no... More »

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prison • mental health • Austria • murder trial • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl

 Fritzl Daughter 
 Gives Video Testimony 

Will be held on camera; press faces jail for reporting

Mar 17, 09 6:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - The judge in Josef Fritzl’s incest trial kicked press and the public out of the court today ahead of Elisabeth Fritzl’s video testimony in a move to protect her identity, the Guardian reports. Her recorded evidence is being played “in small portions,” a court official said,... More »

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rape • Austria • sexual abuse • trial • court • testimony • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl

 Fritzl Blames It All 
 on 'Troubled Childhood' 

Lawyer says dungeon dad's just a guy who wanted a big family

Mar 16, 09 12:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Apparently Josef Frizl’s mom made him do it. Austria’s most infamous incestuous rapist today told the court he’d committed his awful deeds because he had a “troubled childhood,” the Daily Telegraph reports. Fritzl regaled the court with the story of his early days, showing... More »

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rape • trial • testimony • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl

 Fritzl Admits 
 Rape, Denies Murder 

He'll also respond to daughter's taped testimony

Mar 16, 09 6:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Under the cloud of a media frenzy that required a no-fly zone, Josef Fritzl pleaded guilty today in an Austrian courthouse to rape and incest charges linked to the 24-year imprisonment of his daughter, the BBC reports. But the 74-year-old, who entered court with his face covered, pleaded not guilty... More »

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Fritzl's Daughter Will Get Profits From TV Tell-All

Creditors agree to unusual deal for Elisabeth, 6 children

Mar 6, 09 1:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Creditors in Austria will donate the proceeds from an interview with Josef Fritzl to the daughter he raped and imprisoned for 24 years, the Austrian Times reports. Elisabeth Fritzl and her six children were about to be left with nothing after creditors divvied up her father’s bankrupt estate, which... More »

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(Newser) - Austrian incest dad Josef Fritzl defended his imprisonment of daughter Elisabeth as necessary to stop her abuse of household chemicals, the Daily Mail reports. “She had been sniffing cleaning fluids and I decided I should talk with her in my cellar,” Fritzl said of the day in 1984... More »

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rape • drug abuse • murder trial • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • imprisonment

Comic Fritzl 
Play Sparks 
Death Threats 

Director insists he's mocking media, not rape and incest

Feb 23, 09 4:52 PM CST
(Newser) - A comic play about accused rapist Josef Fritzl is set to open in Vienna, drawing the ire—and death threats—of Austrians who are not amused, the BBC reports. Director Hubsi Kramar stressed that the largely improvised piece, co-starring victims of abuse, is a commentary on media coverage of Fritzl’... More »

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theater • satire • comedy • play • murder trial • incest • media coverage • Josef Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • controversy

(Newser) - Miley Cyrus is tired of people suggesting there's something a little odd about her relationship with dad Billy Ray, the Daily Mirror reports. “The media has said some stuff about my dad and me being too close and too cuddly for a father and a daughter,” she... More »

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parenting • gossip • father • Miley Cyrus • Billy Ray Cyrus • rumor • incest • daughter

(Newser) - Elisabeth Fritzl was released today from the psychiatric institution where she has been hospitalized since being discovered in April, the Guardian reports. Recuperating with her at the hospital, and also released today, were the six surviving children fathered by Josef Fritzl, who is imprisoned awaiting trial on charges of... More »

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murder • Austria • incest • psychiatric treatment center • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • mental hospital • discharge

I'm Anti-Gay Marriage,
Not Anti-Gay: Warren

Controversial pastor aims to dampen criticism, civilize discourse

Dec 24, 08 9:34 AM CST
(Newser) - Rick Warren continues to refine his stance on gays and gay marriage, saying he is “not opposed to gays having their partnership,” and that his anti-gay marriage stance doesn’t make him anti-gay, the AP reports. “I’m opposed to gays using the term marriage for their... More »

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gay marriage • Christianity • child molestation • pedophile • evangelicals • inauguration • incest • Rick Warren • Saddleback Church • President Obama • Bill Maher Grid

Go Ahead, Marry Your Cousin

Relatively small chance of birth defects doesn't warrant the taboo, says new report

Dec 24, 08 7:34 AM CST
(Newser) - Laws against first cousins marrying are unnecessary and should be repealed, argue two scientists in a recent Public Science of Biology editorial. The risk of genetic defects in children born of cousin marriages is estimated at 2%-3% higher than in the general population, Wired reports, but no greater than that... More »

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'Brit Fritzl' Impregnated Daughters for Child Benefits

Rapist father lived off pay for incest babies

Nov 28, 08 4:02 AM CST
(Newser) - A British man sentenced to life for raping his daughters over a 30-year period wanted them pregnant so he could collect child benefits from the government, his sister-in-law told the Daily Telegraph. The man, 56, impregnated his two daughters a total of 19 times, resulting in nine children, two of... More »

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Open My Rape Dungeon
to Tourists: Fritzl 

Josef Fritzl hoped to charge visitors to the Austria house where he repeatedly raped his own daughter

Nov 15, 08 5:12 PM CST
(Newser) - Josef Fritzl has proposed turning his dark, rat-filled subterranean dungeon into a tourist attraction, the Telegraph reports. Fritzl's sister-in-law told an Austrian tabloid that he hoped to collect 10 euros per visitor and give proceeds to his traumatized family. “It is completely mad,” she said. “The family... More »

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Fritzl 'Forced Daughter to Reenact Porn'

Charges against incest dad detail how he broke daughter's will

Nov 14, 08 4:42 AM CST
(Newser) - The charges against Josef Fritzl reveal fresh details of the ordeal he put his imprisoned daughter through, including forcing her to watch pornographic films and reenact scenes with him, the Daily Telegraph reports. Fritzl also beat and kicked his daughter, Elisabeth, whom he imprisoned for 24 years in a cellar,... More »

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pornography • rape • Austria • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • criminal trial

(Newser) - Josef Fritzl has been charged with murder in the death of one of the seven children he had with his daughter Elisabeth, the Telegraph reports. Austrian prosecutors say he failed to provide medical care to the child, who fell ill shortly after birth. He later burned the child's body in... More »

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 Fritzl Bricked Up 
 Own Mother 
 for 21 Years 

Monster confesses to new outrage

Oct 30, 08 4:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Austrian who fathered seven children with the sex-slave daughter he kept locked in a dungeon has confessed to imprisoning his own mother in a bricked-up room for 21 years. Josef Fritzl, 73, locked his mother in a room and bricked over the only window "so that she never... More »

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rape • mothers • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten • Linz

 Fritzl: 'I Was Born to Rape' 

But says he 'managed to contain himself' for long time

Oct 22, 08 3:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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rape • Austria • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten • Dr Adelheid Kastner

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