http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,420243,00.html Dungeon Incest Victim Tells Story of Her Father's Cruelty
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Josef Fritzl
Elisabeth Fritzl has spoken for the first time about the horrors she and her children were forced to endure while imprisoned by their father in a cellar under the family home in Austria.
The 42-year-old was kept prisoner by Josef Fritzl for almost a quarter of a century, during which time she bore him seven children.
Finally freed from her dungeon in April, Elisabeth has told the judge investigating the case that she was raped up to three times a week by her father and if she tried to resist, her children suffered.
She also alleged that Josef Fritzl threatened to leave her and the children to die in the cellar if they did not follow his commands.
"He was very brutal against me," Elisabeth told judge Andrea Humer in an interview, extracts from which were published in The Sun. "And when I did not agree to have sex, then the kids would suffer. We knew he would kick us or be bad to us."