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logakman
May 09, 2008

http://yai-collections.blog... Incest dad: I cared for my secret family VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- The man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children said that ...

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VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- The man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children said that he knew his actions were wrong and that he "must have been crazy," according to comments published Thursday.

Josef Fritzl initially confessed to raping his daughter and having seven children with her.

more photos » Josef Fritzl also said in remarks relayed by his lawyer to the Austrian magazine News that he tried to care for his secret family members, taking flowers, books and stuffed toys to them in the dingy dungeon below his home in the town of Amstetten.

The lawyer, Rudolf Mayer, confirmed that Fritzl made the remarks from a prison in the city of St. Poelten, where he is being held in pretrial detention.

"I constantly knew, over the entire 24 years, that what I did was not right, that I must have been crazy because I did something like this," Fritzl was quoted as saying.

The case came to light last month, and 73-year-old Fritzl has since confessed to locking up his daughter Elisabeth in 1984, repeatedly raping her and fathering her seven children. Fritzl met for the first time with a prosecutor Wednesday.

"I tried as best I could to care for my family in the cellar," Fritzl said in the published comments.

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"When I went into the bunker, I brought my daughter flowers and my children books and stuffed animals," Fritzl said, adding that he would watch adventure videos with the children while Elisabeth cooked their favorite meals.

"And then we'd all sit at the kitchen table and eat together," he said.

Fritzl's double life began to disintegrate when Elisabeth's oldest child, a 19-year-old woman, was hospitalized with a severe infection in Amstetten, west of Vienna.

Unable to find medical records for the woman, doctors appealed on TV for her mother to come forward. Fritzl accompanied Elisabeth to the hospital April 26.

He told police that he had fathered seven children with Elisabeth: three kept in the cellar all their lives, one adopted by him and his wife, two raised in the couple's custody and one who died as an infant.

In other comments published by News, Fritzl said that he grew up an only child in "humble circumstances" and that his mother, whom he "admired very much," threw his father out of the house when he was 4.

"She was the boss at home and I the only man in the house," Fritzl said of his mother.

Fritzl also said that he considered good behavior and decency important and that Elisabeth had stopped following rules when she hit puberty.

After locking her up, Fritzl said, he repeatedly thought about letting her go but was scared about being arrested and having people find out what he had done.

"With every week that I held my daughter, my situation got crazier. ... It's true; I thought repeatedly about whether I should let her go or not," he said.

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Australians sucks

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For you people that got thumbs down for saying he's from Austria, I thumbed you back up because he is indeed from Austria, the people there indeed speak German, and all of the news reports say Austria, and the trial was in Austria

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I say, good sir, you are a wise man amongst comments of douches. Josef Fritzl was only protecting her, besides, she was asking for it.

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Her voice gets annoying after a while

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It's not Australia ,my friend . They're all Austrian, speaking German which is official language in Austria . Australian speaks English and they're nice and heartwarming . Please don't drag Down Under on this because it can affect many Australians

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It's Austria, not Australia .. Retard :D

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Alright, I am gonna kill "I1u1k1e2", "JossefFritzl", and "mjonas10", "anonymouz23232", and probably someone else but there is just too many damn comments.

So.. What have you all learned so far?

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sorry i wz only messin. jesus

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