An Austrian court docket on Tuesday he decreed that Josef Fritzl, an Austrian man sentenced to life imprisonment for abusing and holding his daughter captive for twenty-four years, could also be transferred to an strange jail, after years of imprisonment in a particular part for psychiatric sufferers which was determined for safety causes . According to the court docket, it’s now unlikely that Fritzl, who’s now 89 years outdated and suffers from dementia, may commit a “crime with critical penalties”.
That of Josef Fritzl, who at this time modified his surname to Mayrhoff, is Austria’s most well-known crime case: from 1984 to 2008, for twenty-four years, he held his daughter Elisabeth prisoner in an underground bunker he constructed underneath the their home. During his interval of imprisonment, which started when her daughter was 18, Fritzl repeatedly abused her and from these rapes seven kids had been born, certainly one of whom died at three days outdated as a result of lack of medical care. Three of her kids remained to dwell together with her till the day of their liberation, with out ever seeing the sunshine of day or receiving medical checks or schooling, whereas three others had been adopted by Fritzl and his spouse Rosemarie. The latter has at all times maintained that she by no means knew of the existence of the bunker, however that she believed that Elisabeth had run away from residence to affix a non secular sect. The scenario was found by the police in 2008 when Elisabeth satisfied Fritzl to take her eldest daughter, Kerstin, then nineteen, to hospital as a result of her critical well being situations.
In 2009, Fritzl was sentenced to life in jail for enslavement, kidnapping, rape, coercion, incest and the manslaughter of an toddler. In Austria it’s potential to request launch from a life sentence after 15 years of jail, i.e., in Fritzl’s case, in 2024. However, the court docket specified that his switch to an strange jail is to not be thought of as a stage intermediate in direction of his potential launch or parole, as a result of his “unprecedented prison power”.