A 73-year-old Austrian who has confessed to locking his daughter in a windowless cellar for 24 years, and fathering her seven children, has appeared before a judge.
Reuters news agency reported that the judge ordered Fritzl to be kept Austrian man admits to incest, imprisonment ...
Austria Shocked by Incest and Imprisonment Revelations ... in detention while inquiries continue. Investigators are meanwhile searching the 60 square metre cellar beneath Josef Fritzl's two-storey home. Elisabeth Fritzl, now 42, says her father lured her into the cellar of their home in 1984, where he drugged and handcuffed her before imprisoning her. Three of her children, aged 19, 18 and 5, had been locked in the cellar with her since birth and had never seen sunlight.
(Deutsche Welle)
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