Thursday, May 01, 2008

The Fritzl family in Amstetten: the children downstairs and the children upstairs...

THE children of Josef Fritzl's horrifying incestuous relationship with his daughter have emerged from their claustrophobic dungeon with harrowing physical — as well as psychological - damage. Its scale is only just starting to become apparent as they have been reunited with their siblings.

Austrian medical teams painted a grim picture of a group of timid, frightened and ghostly beings, stooped because of their cramped conditions, the teenagers with rotting teeth, all suffering severe immune deficiencies.

Rosemarie, the wife of Josef Fritzl, is now aged 68; her imprisoned daughter, Elisabeth, is just 42. However, doctors said that a quarter of a century underground has so aged Elisabeth that she looks almost as old as her mother. More...

See also: Josef Fritzl, the monster of Amstetten, having fun in Thailand...

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