Now 61, she has seen Fritzl's photograph and is certain it was him who struck in September 1967. She was just 20 when she was attacked but was too ashamed to report it. "Each of the patients is traumatised in a different way and we are giving them individual therapy."Īnd it was revealed yesterday that Fritzl has a string of convictions for sex crimes - as another woman came forward to claim he raped her. Elisabeth, 42, has been aged so badly by her ordeal that she looks more like an OAP.Īmstetten-Mauer clinic chief physician Berthold Kepplinger said: "We are looking after all of them with a large team of child and adult psychologists, therapists, neurologists and physiotherapists. The height of their prison ceilings has left them each with a cramped physical posture and all three are anaemic. Stefan and Felix have defective immune systems and vitamin D deficiency from lack of sunlight. They said they were tackling the disastrous physical and mental effects of the family's long confinement. Fritzl tossed the corpse into a furnace.ĭoctors say Kerstin suffered renal failure due to a breakdown in her immune system, a condition possibly linked to her life of deprivation.ĭealing with the effects of incest, isolation and lack of medical care for Kerstin and her two brothers had been difficult, they said. He convinced authorities that Elisabeth had joined a cult and left her children on his doorstep.Ī seventh child died days after birth. Three other children Fritzl fathered with Elisabeth - Lisa, 16, Monika, 14, and Alex, 12 - lived with him and their grandmother Rosemarie, 68, in the house above. A TV was their only window on the outside world. She and brothers Stefan, 18, and Felix, five, had spent their whole lives locked in the dungeon. It was her release from the soundproof cellar to go to hospital that led to her family being rescued. She pleaded with him to get help for her sick daughter for days before he agreed to let Kerstin go to hospital. Her chances of survival are very low."Ī spokesman for prosecutors said: "If the young woman dies, we will look at bringing charges against the accused for murder through negligence."įritzl held Elisabeth captive for 24 years. The evil 73-year-old has already confessed to incest, rape and keeping Elisabeth and three of their children in a dungeon.ĭoctors treating Kerstin in Amstetten, Austria, said she was still in a critical condition two weeks after she was admitted.Ī hospital spokesman said: "She is suffering from multiple organ failure. HOUSE of horror victim Kerstin Fritzl was losing her fight for life last night.Īnd Josef Fritzl - who raped his daughter Elisabeth to father the 19-year-old - could be charged with her murder if she dies.
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