Another Fritzl child died in lair
<http://www.theage.com.au/world/another-fritzl-child-died-in-lair-20081114-67at.html>http://www.theage.com.au/world/another-fritzl-child-died-in-lair-20081114-67at.html * Allan Hall , Berlin * November 15, 2008 Josef Fritzl: charged with murder, rape, incest, false imprison Josef Fritzl: charged with murder, rape, incest, false imprisonment and slavery. Photo: AFP JOSEF Fritzl fathered an eighth child with his captive daughter Elisabeth, it emerged last night. She miscarried her first child alone in the darkness a blow of such devastating magnitude that she thought about committing suicide. The 27-page indictment against Fritzl, leaked to the Austrian media yesterday, reveals that he made his daughter watch pornographic films and then forced her to re-enact scenes in the rat-infested secret dungeon. Fritzl, 74, was hit with a battery of charges this week, including murder over the death of a newborn twin boy who died in the gloom of his subterranean lair in 1996. He burned the child's corpse in the solid-fuel stove used to heat his house above ground in Amstetten, Austria. But it emerged that the baby, named Michael, was not the only child to die in the dungeon. In November 1986, Elisabeth miscarried in the 10th week of pregnancy. The prosecution indictment reveals Elisabeth was drugged in August 1984 and forced into the room that Fritzl had secretly carved out and hidden behind eight closed doors. He restrained her with chains attached to posts sunk into the floor an 18-square-metre prison where she remained for the following nine months. In 1994, her captor expanded the cellar to 40 square metres. This meant that for the first time those with Elisabeth in the dungeon daughter Kerstin and son Stefan had the chance to shower and to cook their own food. By this time Elisabeth had been underground for 10 years. She has been told the public and media will be banned from the trial. The judge confirmed on Thursday that the entire process, apart from formalities on the first and last days, would be in camera. Fritzl was also charged with rape, incest, false imprisonment and slavery, said the State Attorney's office in St Poelten, west of Vienna. Prosecutors still do not know if any of the cellar children will give evidence. Doctors have warned that daughter Kerstin, 19, remains too disturbed by her ordeal to film a statement. "There are two reasons why this trial will be behind closed doors. One, to protect Elisabeth and her children. And two, to stop it from becoming some sort of ghoulish daily freak show," said one Austrian legal expert. Judges will introduce a pooling system to restrict access to a handful of journalists for the charges and final verdict. Elisabeth's lawyer, Christoph Herbst, revealed that she had no plans to move out of the clinic, where she and her children live, before the trial. The family was still under police protection and Elisabeth and her six children were still receiving therapy. <*}}}>< <http://www.holypostage.com/>Holy Postage <*}}}>< <*}}}><<http://www.halfthekingdom.org/>Half the Kingdom!<*}}}>< Prayer for Unborn Life: O GOD OF LIFE AND LOVE, You have given us the gift to participate with You to bring new life into the world. But, all too often, the mother's womb, which should be a nursery of life, becomes instead a place of it's destruction. Help us to remove this evil and ensure respect for all life made in Your image and likeness, called to fulfill its promise on this earth, and destined to find a home with you for all eternity. We ask this through Jesus Christ, Our Lord, Our God, Our Savior, and Our ALL. Amen. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Please note that I do not send or open attachments sent to this list. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Catholics on Fire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Catholics-on-Fire May the blessing of Jesus and our Blessed Mother be with you -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
