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This 4 page paper discusses the case of Joseph Fritzl, who is accused of imprisoning his daughter in a secret basement “bunker” for 24 years, raping her repeatedly and forcing her to bear seven children. The case is breaking now (May, 2008). Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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basic facts are these: a 73-year old Austrian electrical engineer, Joseph Fritzl, is accused of drugging his daughter Elizabeth when she was 19 years old (shes now 42), imprisoning her
in a specially designed cellar beneath the family home, and keeping her there for 24 years (Razaq and Mendick, 2008). During this period of imprisonment, he raped her repeatedly; she
bore him seven children (Razaq and Mendick, 2008). Of the seven, one died shortly after birth, three others lived with her in the "dungeon," and the other three were raised
upstairs (Razag and Mendick, 2008). Fritzls wife, Rosemarie, 60, claims she had no knowledge whatever of the secret life going on beneath her feet (Razaq and Mendick, 2008). He told
her that Elizabeth had run away to join a cult; later, when she bore him children, he claimed that she returned and left them with him, saying she could not
support them (Razaq and Mendick, 2008). Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie legally adopted three children who were in fact his. According to reports, Fritzl began abusing the girl when she
was 11; in 1978, he began constructing the prison beneath the family home (Connolly, 2008). The dungeon, as the press is calling it, is a windowless cellar that is variously
described as a "maze" and a "warren" but apparently started out as one small room (Connolly, 2008). In 1993, Fritzl enlarged the space and added another room; investigators found a
cooking area, bathroom and sleeping areas in the structure (Connolly, 2008). The "warren-like complex" is shielded from the main house by "eight doors," five of which "were opened with a
highly sophisticated cylinder key; the others were electronically operated with a key-code device" (Connolly, 2008). Fritzl was caught only because one of the "dungeon children," 19-year old Kirsten, became seriously
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