Update: Josef Fritzl Wanted to Keep Elisabeth Away from Bad Influences
“The twisted mind of Josef Fritzl has been laid bare in a prison interview in which he defends the 24-year imprisonment and rape of his daughter Elisabeth.”
These are the highlights:
“I grew up in the Nazi times, and that meant the need to be controlled and respect authority. Yet, despite that, I am not the monster that I am portrayed as in the media.”
On Planning the Crime:
“I guess it must have been around 1981 or 1982 when I began to build a room in my cellar as the cell for her. I got a really heavy concrete and steel door, that worked with an electric motor and a remote control that I used to get into the cellar. It needed a number code to open and close. I then plastered the walls, added something to wash in and a small toilet, a bed and a cooking ring, as well as the fridge, electricity and lights.”
On Why He Imprisoned Elisabeth:
“Ever since she entered puberty, Elisabeth stopped doing what she was told. She just did not follow any of my rules any more. She would go out all night in local bars and come back stinking of alcohol and smoke. She even ran away twice and hung around with persons of questionable moral standards, who were certainly not a good influence on her. I always had to bring her home, but she always ran away again. That is why I had to arrange a place where I gave her the chance—by force—to keep away from the bad influences of the outside world.”
On Raping Elisabeth:
“I knew that Elisabeth did not want the things I did to her. I knew that I was hurting her, but the urge to finally be able to taste the forbidden fruit was too strong. It was like an addiction.”
On Letting Elisabeth Go:
“With every week that I kept my daughter prisoner, my situation just got more crazy, and, really, it is true, I often thought of whether I should let her out or not. But I just was not capable of making a decision, even though, and probably because, I knew that every day that passed made my crime that much worse.”
“But I was afraid of being arrested and of having my family and everyone out there find out about my crime—and so I postponed my decision again and again. Until one day it was really too late to free Elisabeth and take her upstairs.”
On Elisabeth’s First Pregnancy:
“Elisabeth was, of course, very worried about the future, but I brought her medical books in the cellar, so that she would know when the day came what she had to do, and I arranged towels and disinfectants and nappies.”
On His Cellar Family:
“In reality I wanted to have children with her. I was looking forward to the offspring. It was a beautiful idea for me—to have a proper family, also down in the cellar, with a good wife and a couple of children.”
“After the birth of Felix at the end of 2002, I even gave Elisabeth a washing machine as a present so she did not have to wash her own clothes and that of the children by hand.”
“I always knew over 24 years what I did was not correct, and that I must be mad to do something like this. Yet despite that, at the same time, it just became a matter of course that I lived my second life in the cellar.”
“I am sorry to say I did tell them that they would never get past the door because they would be electrocuted and they would die.”
On His 1967 Rape Conviction:
“I do not know what drove me to do that. … It’s really true I do not know why I did it. I always wanted to be a good husband and a good father.”
Also see my previous posts:
Man Keeps Daughter in Cellar for 24 Years, Fathers 7 Children
Update: Elisabeth Fritzl “Mentally and Physically Frail”
Filed under: Child Abuse, Law and Order, Rants & Ramblings | Tagged: Austria, Elisabeth Fritzl, incest, Josef Fritzl, rape, Rapists, sociopaths
undoubtedly one of the most rotten pieces of shit to ever ‘grace’ the earth.