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'Dungeon' Daughter Speaks About Ordeal

by Jarrett Martineau | May 12, 2008 at 07:42 pm

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An update to this incredibly sad story: Elisabeth Fritzl has spoken publicly about her tragic ordeal as a sex slave of her father, Joseph Fritzl.

It's absolutely heartbreaking to imagine the horror that her captivity has been, but there is hope in knowing that she will finally be able to do the one thing she's wanted to do for more than twenty-four years: "feel rain on her skin".

The woman kept as a sex slave in a dungeon for 24 years broke down in tears when she was reunited with her mother and children, saying she could not believe she was finally free.
Elisabeth Fritzl wept as she told her family she feared she would never see them again - and that she hoped she would never have to see her tormentor father again, Britain's Daily Mail reported.

The 42-year-old was repeatedly raped by her father, Josef Fritzl, over a quarter of a century while he kept her prisoner in a specially-built, windowless, soundproof room under his house.

She gave birth to seven children fathered by Mr Fritzl. Three lived in the dungeon with her, three were "adopted" to live with the rest of the family upstairs, while one died.

Elisabeth and the children have been in psychiatric care since their ordeal ended.

When Elisabeth finally saw her mother again after so many years, she cried and said: "I can't believe I'm free - is it really you?"

"I can't believe I'm out. I didn't think I would ever see you again. It's all too much for me," she said, according to the Mail. Embracing her children, she said: "My babies. You are so beautiful".

Turning her attention to her father, she said: "I don't ever want to see him again".

She said the one thing she wanted to do was to feel rain on her skin.