Austrian father 'locked daughters in room for 41 years'

[alp227]

Source: Associated Press

Austrian police are investigating claims that a man locked up his two mentally ill daughters in a small room in their home and sexually abused them for 41 years.

Officers said the 80-year-old repeatedly raped the women between 1970 and May 2011 in St Peter am Hart, near the Bavarian border. The alleged victims are now aged 53 and 45. A police official did not name either the suspect or the alleged victims.

Police confirmed they were investigating after a report in the Oberösterreichische Nachrichten newspaper.

The newspaper said the women escaped when the father was unable to get off the floor after the older daughter pushed him over when he last tried to rape her.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/25/austrian-abused-mentally-ill-daughters

[LiberalLoner]

1. Scum. n/t K&R

[rfranklin]

2. Seems to be an Austrian custom...

The allegations evoke the case of Josef Fritzl, an Austrian who imprisoned his daughter in a windowless cellar for 24 years and repeatedly raped her, fathering her seven children.

Schwarzenegger put a Caleefornya twist on it by raping the housekeeper.

[ZombieHorde]

5. I don't think Schwarzenegger raped his housekeeper.

I believe the relationship was mutual.

[rfranklin]

6. Poetic license...

Thoough while on the checkout line I saw a tabloid headline claiming they were fighting over the love child.

[trud]

13. you call falsely alleging rape poetic license? n/t

[rfranklin]

15. Lighten up...this isn't a criminal proceeding...

No one is going to jail over this.

[ZombieHorde]

20. What you call poetic license, I call fucked up shit. nt

[elleng]

8. Was gonna say, isn't this an OLD story?

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[Turbineguy]

12. There are 8.4 million people in Austria

it would seem this "custom" is extremely rare.

[shanti]

18. yes

and there was another guy a few days ago in germany who created an elaborate setup to imprison a woman and was caught. frightful world we live in.

[JI7]

21. very ignorant bigoted post, Arnold did not Rape the housekeeper, it was consensual

how about that American who kidnapped and held Jaycee Dugard for almost 2 decades . he raped her and she had 2 kids from that.

there is elizabeth smart. and those are just the well known cases.

would you consider it to be an american thing.

[Kablooie]

24. Hitler was Austrian too.

[d_b]

3. another fritzl?

ugh.

[ZombieHorde]

4. So sad. nt

[roguevalley]

7. oh shit. you know some couldn't shake the hitler youth

indoctrination. horrendous

[Honeycombe8]

9. That sure is a cute little fella in your post! Is he REALLY standing up, or is that photoshop? nt

[roguevalley]

16. that is real life. My Tippy sat up, hugged you around the neck and

other lovely things. He is my boy. :-)

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

17. Tippy...

... was the name of my uncle's dog, a rat terrier/dashund mix. I always checked on him when on grandpa and grandma's farm while he was away in Vietnam. Yes, he came back. Tippy got run over by a gravel truck.

PS: sorry to add such a sad note to this sub thread about Tippy

[Honeycombe8]

19. He's adorable. I have two myself...my boy Roy, and my girl Rosie.

They're cute, too!

:loveya:

[truthisfreedom]

11. Jebus, what a nauseating story.

And now he's so old that incarceration is no longer an effective punishment.

[Devil_Fish]

14. I've fallen, and I can't get up! NT

[AngryAmish]

22. Did someone say something...

Australia Rules!

[Odin2005]

23. I'm feeling deja-vu. WTF Austria?