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The decision to transfer Josef Fritzl - who kept his daughter captive for 24 years and raped her thousands of times - to a regular prison has been overturned by an Austrian court.
BERLIN (AP): Austrian prosecutors have appealled a court decision that a man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years and raped her thousands of times, fathering seven children with her, can be moved from psychiatric detention to a regular prison...
Austrian prosecutors have appealed against a court decision that a man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years and raped her thousands of times, fathering seven children with her, can be moved from psychiatric detention to an ordinary prison.
Austrian prosecutors have filed a complaint aimed at overturning a court decision last week that 88-year-old incestuous rapist Josef Fritzl should be moved to regular prison, a court spokesman said on Thursday. The court in the town of Krems an der Donau west of Vienna ordered last week that Fritzl be transferred conditionally out of a prison psychiatric unit and into regular custody after a psychiatric assessment found he posed no threat of re-offending. Fritzl, who has now changed his name to one not made public, raped his daughter as he held her captive for 24 years, fathering her seven c...
Fritzl became known as the ‘monster of Amstetten’ after the Austrian town where he locked up his daughter.