Josef Fritzl, pictured at the time of his 2009 trial in St. Poelten, Austria. APA/Getty Images/File
Lieber ein Schnitzel auf dem Teller als beim Fritzl im Keller.
He may no longer be a danger to society, but are we sure society is not a danger to him?
He is/was a very strange case in that he only raped his daughter Elizabeth. No one claimed that he ever sexually assaulted his other kids. I wouldn’t even call him a paedophile because age obviously wasn’t much of a factor, he did start sexually assaulting her when she was 11 yes but he didn’t stop when she aged up and she didn’t have her first pregnancy until after imprisonment at 18. And since his victims were in the family I don’t think he’d run much of a risk of being killed by the general public. It’s really only paedophiles that go after kids at playgrounds and stuff like that, that really cause that public rage, that murderlust where society absolutely is a danger to them.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Josef Fritzl, the infamous Austrian rapist and sex offender, is seeking to be transferred from prison to a nursing home due to his deteriorating health and a recent psychiatric assessment that deemed him to be no longer a danger to society, according to his lawyer.
Fritzl’s lawyer Astrid Wagner told CNN that “expert opinion suggests that his illness has reached a point where the likelihood of committing serious offenses with significant consequences has diminished,” citing the assessment.
In a 2009, a jury in Austria found Fritzl guilty of raping and imprisoning his daughter over a period of more than two decades and sentenced him to life in prison.
That trial shocked the world with details of how he had closeted his daughter in a specially designed cellar in 1984, when she was 18, then kept her there for 24 years while repeatedly sexually assaulting her and fathering her seven children.
Fritzl, 88, is currently imprisoned in Krems in northeast Austria under preventative “enforcement measures” based on the danger posed by his mental illness.
Ferdinand Schuster, vice president of the regional court of Krems, told CNN that “the report shows that danger no longer exists in the prisoner.”
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