Incest, Slavery, Rape and Murder - Fritzl Trial Today

by Swan | March 16, 2009 at 09:30 am

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What do you say about a man who imprisons his daughter for 24 years in a sound proofed cell he built for her beneath his home?

What do you say about this piece of trash who also fathered 7 children and one miscarriage with her during that time?

3 of those children died (due to lack of health care,) and one of the charges police are bringing against him is murder.

The trial begins today.

The trial of Josef Fritzl, an Austrian man who allegedly held his daughter as a sex slave for 24 years and fathered her seven children got underway on Monday in the Austrian town of St. Poelten, amid tight security.

On Monday, outside the St. Poelten courthouse, police kept watch over media and protesters who gathered outside to report on Fritzl, dubbed by some as the 'Dungeon Dad'. As Fritzl arrived he hid his face behind a blue file folder.

Fritzl continued to cower behind the folder as a judge began the proceedings at the courthouse near Vienna.

According to Sky News, Fritzl told his lawyer: "I'm scared." And he should be. If convicted and given a jail sentence, he'd likely be safer out of jail than in. It's well known that most prison inmates don't take kindly to crimes against children.

He will plead guilty to rape, incest, coercion and imprisonment but will contest both the enslavement and murder charges. His trial takes place today in the Austrian capital of Sankt Poelten and scheduled to last only 5 days.

Proceedings will be closed to the press and public. When he arrived at the court today, the 73 year old Austrian was flanked by several policemen. Sickeningly, Europe correspondent Greg Milam reveals that Fritzl's lawyer:

...is "trying to paint a very different picture of Josef Fritzl ... as a man who is not a sex monster, but someone who loved his daughter and tried to protect her."

Give me a break.

It seems that he is also playing the 'victim card,' hoping to garner sympathy from the jury.

"I had a very difficult childhood," 73-year-old Josef Fritzl said in a trembling voice, at his trial in Sankt Poelten. "My mother didn't want me. She was 42 when she had me. She simply didn't want a child and she treated me correspondingly. I was beaten," Fritzl said.

Prosecutor Christiane Burkheiser, alleges that the babies who died could possibly have survived if he had been taken to hospital for medical treatment. Evidence will be heard that:

Fritzl refused to take action when one boy developed severe breathing problems and turned blue. "He shut (Elisabeth) away in the cellar and made her totally dependent on him, forcing her into sexual acts and treating her as if she was his own property," Fritzl's charge sheet read.

If this is not true, then why when he built the cellar, did he ensure that it was sound proofed?

Why for the first 3 years of her incarceration, did he omit the installation of hot water, a shower or heating?

Why did 3 of her children grow up in that damned cellar?

The other 3 surviving children were presented to Fritzl's wife as abandoned, and he and Rosemarie Fritzl raised them as their own children.

How could Rosemarie Fritzl not know that this was happening in her own home?

Thankfully,

Court officials say they will do everything to protect the privacy of Fritzl's daughter Elisabeth and the six surviving children she bore her father. The family, who have been moved to a different part of the country to begin new lives, will not be in court for the trial but will be under police guard.