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I was Abused as a Child, Claims Josef Fritzl
As the trial against him opened in St Pölten, west of Vienna, the 73-year-old retired electrical engineer admitted rape, incest and false imprisonment, but denied enslaving daughter Elisabeth.
Nor did he murder one of the children born to Elisabeth in captivity, he maintained.
“I had a very difficult childhood,” Mr Fritzl said in a trembling voice. He told the three judges and eight jurors that, at the age of 12, he had made it clear to his own mother that he would not tolerate being beaten any longer and would defend himself.
“From that point on, I was Satan personified for her,” he said. She never showed him any affection and his father appeared only “rarely and sporadically", he said.
His relationship with his mother was never close, even though they shared the same house until her death in 1980.
Mr Fritzl attributed his mother’s coldness to her own childhood. “Her life wasn’t the best, either,” he said. “She grew up on a farm and had to work from the age of eight."
Opening the trial, state prosecutor Christiane Burkheiser gave a chilling account of the cellar life.
She said Fritzl did not talk to his daughter during her first few years in the soundproof basement. She used a laser pen to outline how low the cellar's ceiling was, about five feet, and to detail the dimensions of the last door leading into it, which could only be accessed by crawling through on the hands and knees.
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