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Nineteen-year-old Kerstin Fritzl, who was imprisoned by her father in a cellar for her entire life, has been brought out of a medically induced coma, hospital officials say.

Kerstin Fritzl, the 19-year-old who was born in a dungeon prison and whose father held her captive, along with two siblings and her mother, has woken up from her medically induced coma and has been reunited with her mother, Elisabeth, and her siblings.
“It is Sunday, June 1 …, 9 a.m. I said, ‘Hello Kerstin,’ and she said ‘Hello’ to me,” said Dr. Albert Reiter, who has been in charge of treating Kerstin for a life-threatening medical condition since she was brought to his hospital in Amstetten, Austria, April 19.

“Her ‘hello’ marked the beginning of a new life, the end of a long time of suffering,” said an obviously emotional Reiter.

After arriving at the hospital unconscious and with multiple organ failure, Kerstin suffered seizures and, in addition to the induced coma, Read more »

The eldest child of an incestuous relationship between Austrian Josef Fritzl and the daughter he confined for 24 years has been reunited with her family after recovering from an artificial coma, doctors said.

Doctors also said on Wednesday the whole family — Fritzl’s daughter Elisabeth and the six surviving of seven children she bore him while locked in a cellar — had been moved into a house on hospital premises to promote a normal living environment.

Fritzl, 73, in investigative custody since the case was exposed in April, marooned Elisabeth, now 42, in a soundproofed basement under his house in the central town of Amstetten — a marathon, Read more »

Die Luftaufnahme zeigt das Haus der Familie Fritzl.

Die 19-jährige Tochter des Inzest-Täters Josef Fritzl ist aus dem Koma erwacht. Durch ihre Einlieferung ins Krankenhaus ist das Drama bekannt geworden.

Die 19-jährige Tochter des Inzest-Täters Josef Fritzl ist aus einem knapp siebenwöchigen künstlichen Koma erwacht. Die lebensgefährlich erkrankte Kerstin Fritzl war Ende April in das Krankenhaus von Amstetten (Österreich) gebracht worden und schwebte wochenlang zwischen Leben und Tod. Ihre geheimnisvolle Erkrankung hatte letztlich zur Aufdeckung des Inzest-Dramas von Amstetten am 27. April geführt.

Ein Sprecher der Niederösterreichischen Landeskliniken bestätigte der Nachrichtenagentur APA am Dienstag, Fritzl sei bereits vor einigen Tagen aus der Intensivstation des Krankenhauses entlassen worden, benötige aber “nach wie vor intensive medizinische, pflegerische und therapeutische Betreuung“. Gerüchte, wonach die junge Frau in die Klinik verlegt wurde, in der sich ihre Mutter und Geschwister seit ihrer Befreiung aufhalten, Read more »

The Austrian who reportedly admitted holding his daughter captive for 24 years and fathering seven children with her will plead insanity, his lawyer said. Attorney Rudolf Mayer said he believed 73-year-old Josef Fritzl had a mental disorder, The Associated Press reported. Mayer said someone who was mentally ill “didn’t choose” to do what police allege he did.

“I believe that the trigger was a mental disorder, because I can’t imagine that someone has sex with his own daughter without having a mental disorder,” Mayer said in an interview broadcast late Sunday.

Mayer said Fritzl would be confined to a psychiatric institution rather than a prison if he was certified as insane and convicted, AP reported.

Police said last week that Fritzl had confessed to imprisoning Read more »

Josef Fritzl’s wife did not know her daughter was held captive in their basement for decades because she had been trained not to ask questions under Fritzl’s tyrannical rule of the household, Fritzl’s sister-in-law said.
“He was such a tyrant,” said the woman identified only as Christine R. in a Saturday interview conducted and translated by the Associated Press.

“He tolerated no dissent,” Christine R. added.

“Listen, if I was scared myself — I was scared of him at a family party and I did not feel confident to say anything in any form that could possibly offend him — then you can imagine how it was for a woman who spent so many years with him.”

In the televised interview, Christine R. added detail to the bizarre story of 73-year-old Fritzl who was recently arrested and confessed to holding his daughter captive in a dungeon Read more »

“Josef Fritzl gehört nicht ins Gefängnis”: Der Anwalt des Amstettener Inzesttäters hält seinen Mandanten für psychisch krank und damit unzurechnungsfähig. Er will eine Haftstrafe verhindern - und setzt stattdessen auf eine Einweisung in die geschlossene Psychiatrie.

Wien - Zweimal schon hat der Wiener Anwalt Rudolf Mayer seinen Mandanten Josef Fritzl in der Untersuchungshaft getroffen. Was er dabei erfahren hat, lässt für den prominenten Juristen nur einen Schluss, nur eine Strategie zu: “Meiner ganz persönlichen Meinung nach ist Fritzl psychisch krank und damit unzurechnungsfähig”, sagte Mayer jetzt “Bild am Sonntag”. Der Verteidiger will eine Haftstrafe für den Sexualstraftäter verhindern: “Ich glaube, mein Mandant gehört nicht ins Gefängnis, Read more »

Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer said on Wednesday the government planned to launch an image campaign to restore its reputation abroad after an incest case that shocked the world.

The plight of Elisabeth Fritzl, whose 73-year old father Josef sexually abused her and kept her in a windowless basement for 24 years has put the eastern Austrian town of Amstetten in the international media spotlight.

“It’s not Austria that is the perpetrator. This is an unfathomable criminal case, but also an isolated case,” Gusenbauer said in his first public reaction.

“We won’t allow the whole country to be held hostage by one man,” he told journalists in Vienna.

The case has sent shockwaves through Austria less than two years after an Austrian teenager, Natascha Kampusch, escaped from the basement where she had been locked up by an abductor for eight years.

Gusenbauer said the government planned to hire consultants to get the campaign under way and would use “all technical and professional means available to rectify” Austria’s image.

Meanwhile, investigators said they were now painstakingly trying to reconstruct the life of Fritzl, Read more »