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Austria: 73-year-old pensioner confessed to keeping his own daughter captive and fathering her - je 28.04.2008 18

Milan TillichApril 28, 2008

We begin in Austria, where a 73-year-old pensioner has confessed to keeping his own daughter captive in a windowless cellar for nearly a quarter of a century... Joseph Fritzl also claims to be the father of his daughter's seven children, three of whom were kept locked in the basement with their mother since birth, and had never seen daylight. The case has raised questions about how authorities and neighbours failed to notice anything unusual.

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