Austrian monster Josef Fritzl, who fathered seven children while keeping his daughter in captivity as a sex slave for 24 years, may soon be released as he is no longer considered a threat to the public, according to reports.
Fritzl, now 88, is accused of incest, rape, coercion, false imprisonment and enslavement of his daughter Elisabeth in the basement of his home in Amstetten, and the death of one of the seven children she bore. He was sentenced to life in prison in 2009 for manslaughter. Born in
Based on his sentence, Fritzl will be eligible for parole this year, but he is likely to be released after a psychiatric report determines he is “no longer dangerous.” British Metro reported..
“I am already in the process of obtaining his conditional release,” Fritzl's lawyer Astrid Wagner told local news outlet Kronen Zeitung.
“If the application is approved, which I think it probably will be, I would like him to be placed in a facility for the frail,” he was quoted as saying. mirror.
It is not immediately clear when a final decision will be made.
Heidi Kastner, a forensic psychiatry expert at the University of Linz, spent a year preparing a report concluding that the country's most notorious prisoner was no longer a threat to the public.
She said she could be transferred through the regular prison system at Krems Stein Prison as a first step toward release. It is likely that she will be transferred to a nursing home to spend her final years.
Reports citing local media said Fritzl appeared confused, spoke regularly to the television, believed himself to be a pop star, and discussed a family visit that never happened. It is said that there is.
He also reportedly has fallen into bars multiple times and requires a walker.
Fritzl's crimes were first discovered in April 2008, after Elisabeth took one of her newborn children to hospital for a life-threatening illness.
Of the seven children born to the repeated abuse of her daughter, aged between 18 and 42, three were confined with her and one died shortly after birth.
The remaining three were raised by Fritzl and his wife Rosemary, who claimed they showed up on their doorstep.
Elizabeth, who was given a new name after her trial, now lives with her six surviving children in a closed community called “X Village” in rural Austria, the Mirror reported.
The children, now aged 17 to 31, sleep in a room with the door always open after undergoing weekly therapy sessions to help them overcome the trauma of being in the dungeon.
The newspaper said that in 2009, a year after she escaped from captivity, Elizabeth found love with her bodyguard, Thomas Wagner, 23 years her junior, who was entrusted with her protection.
“This is clear evidence that love is the most powerful force in the world,” said one of her psychiatrists.
“With permission from her doctors, she has stopped psychiatric treatment and continues to live her life, learning to drive, helping her children with their homework and making friends with local people,” the expert said. .
“She lost the best years of her life in that basement. She is determined that every day she has left will be filled with activity,” the psychiatrist added.
