Man confines, rapes, and tortures daughters for over 40 years

[Uzor]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...77O33V20110825

(Reuters) - Austrian police are investigating a man they suspect imprisoned, beat and sexually abused his two daughters over a 40-year period, they said Thursday.

The 85-year-old Austrian, from a village near the northern town of Braunau, kept the women locked in a small kitchen with only a wooden bench as a bed, police said.

"The accused repeatedly threatened to kill them and threatened them with weapons," the police department of the province of Upper Austria said in a statement.

The man banned his daughters from having "any social contact," the statement added. It was not immediately clear if they were confined all the time.

The description has echoes of the Josef Fritzl incest case which rocked Austria three years ago. Fritzl fathered seven children with his incarcerated daughter before being imprisoned for life in 2009 aged 74.

Police said the women, now aged 53 and 45, were suffering from "mental deficiencies" and were being sheltered and treated after their ordeal.

They escaped in May when the father tried to rape the elder daughter and she fought back, injuring him as he fell to the ground. A social worker found the father two days later and reported the alleged abuse to the authorities.

The father is now bed-ridden in hospital but is "mentally active" for his age, police said.

Police did not say whether the daughters gave birth to children by their father. The police statement, which did not name the man, said he abused them from 1970 to May 2011 in the village near the German border.

Both of the daughters were apparently retarded, and he was abusive to their mother as well, forbidding all three of them of ever having any contact with the outside world. Considering both daughters were retarded, I'd venture a guess that the mother, too, is somehow related to him.


Austria produces a lot of wackos. First Hitler, then Fritzl, and now this guy?

[6souls]

damnit! I was hoping for new Fritz the Cat.

[Chun Liroy]

Another Australian hero.

[Uzor]

Austrian, not Australian

[Egon]

Austrian, not Australian

lol

[Fitch.]

Another Australian hero.

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[Militant]

Surprised this topic is as dead as it is. This is fucking disturbing on many levels. You think (or try not to, really) about a guy raping his daughter, and you go "wow thats really fucked up"... and then I try to comprehend doing this day in and day out for over 40 years... I just cant wrap my feeble brain around it. Both of these guys should have their genitals removed and surgically replaced on their foreheads.

Also, lmao@ leroy.

[Kerberoz]

Oh, Austria. Kinda wanna visit the torture museum there, though.

[Guitarman]

kept the women locked in a small kitchen

[Gadritan]

Surprised this topic is as dead as it is.

Prolly the title. Not a lot of people will remember Fritzl off the top of their heads, but if you put "Man confines, rapes, and tortures daughters for over 40years," there would be about 30 pages of responses already.

[Gwynplaine]

Have not heard of this in the U.S. and I consider myself reasonably newsy type of guy. What can you say, sounds awful.

[Skyylya]

Prolly the title. Not a lot of people will remember Fritzl off the top of their heads, but if you put "Man confines, rapes, and tortures daughters for over 40years," there would be about 30 pages of responses already.

Yeah...From the title I thought this was about a sausage in a pretzel and got excited for a few minutes...

[Cleverness]

I thought Fritzl was some sort of snack at first. But yea, people are fucked up. All I can say about that.

[Militant]

Prolly the title. Not a lot of people will remember Fritzl off the top of their heads, but if you put "Man confines, rapes, and tortures daughters for over 40years," there would be about 30 pages of responses already.

I vote for a mod topic change to this.

[Uzor]

If a mod want to change the name that's fine, didn't realize people would forget the Fritzl case so fast.

[hey]

I think they just forgot his name. The internet has made it fairly impossible to forget fritzl.

Spoiler: show

http://www.topnews.in/files/Josef-Fritzl101.jpg

You can't even forget that.

[Kaisha]

I'm really surprised he was able to do this for a whole 40 years without either of the daughters squeeling, or someone noticing something was up.....


He had to have been a hermit or something.

[Weeks]

POIDH

[Acturus]

Man, what a story.

Someone should change the title to something about Fritzl.

[hey]

Someone should change the title to something about Fritzl.

lol