Comments on: Man Imprisoned Daughter for 24 Years in Cellar

By: Moodindigo

Moodindigo — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:35:40 +0000

Poor Madeline McCann. One year into her hide and go seek world record attempt and this chick from Austria turns up with 24 years under belt.

By: James Mac

James Mac — Sun, 04 May 2008 09:55:36 +0000

Why is this story on neatorama? It’s out of place.

By: Louisa

Louisa — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:49:37 +0000

ted, You’re turning into my new favorite. lol

By: Cupcake

Cupcake — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:07:11 +0000

We live in a sick, sick, highly misogynist, pro-violence, and anti-woman world when locking a woman in a dungeon to be a sex slave to rape at will can be anyone’s fantasy (sick or not).

By: ted

ted — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:07:58 +0000

Albert Einstein said all that about Austrians ironing their underwear?

By: sarah gibson

sarah gibson — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:58:09 +0000

those austrians are going to insist that she encouraged her father and that it was consentual — they are backwards and totally without compassion — it is in their blood, unfortunately — i heard about austrians who iron their underwear and they have spotless tidy homes at all times — they have a whole different agenda than we do — but most importantly i feel that mr. fritzl’s has more crimes in his background — his other children — they need to be brought in and his dna could be matched with other unsolved crimes — The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it –albert einstein –

By: Donga

Donga — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:03:45 +0000

Its sick but also like a sick fantasy sex movie except not your daughter but a hot clone of some celebrity in your basement

I’m not australian

By: Cupcake

Cupcake — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:41:29 +0000

There is a word to describe it. Sexual abuse and rape. For 24 years. By a father, on his daughter. It’s not “fathering” children. It’s rape.

And it’s horrific, and certainly not “neat.”

By: Pol x

Pol x — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:29:07 +0000

This all came to light due to the 19 year old being very sick.

Take a moment and think.

She’s a 19 year old girl, the child of icest between grand father and daughter.

Do you think she somehow escaped the predations of that evil old man?

2nd generation incest?

What was she sick with?

My guess would be a home done abortion gone wrong.

By: just a guy

just a guy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:09:46 +0000

i think… last time i mentioned ‘unneatness’ of a post, commenters scolded me and said ‘this isn’t rosecoloredgalsses.com’ or something like that. oh well :c

By: xander

xander — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:10:21 +0000

I’m glad someone else noticed the unneatness too.

By: anathema

anathema — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:13:26 +0000

What I still don’t get is how the girl who collapsed was found.

By: ted

ted — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:46:07 +0000

Depends on what you want the justice system to be: a system of rehabilitation, or a system of revenge.

Ah, Austria: The hills are alive…

By: Louisa

Louisa — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:27:57 +0000

I doubt this “person” has a conscience or feels much of anything so what punishment is ever going to truly hurt him? That’s the problem. We want him to hurt but is he really capable of feeling pain equivalent to that of his victims?

Sadly, I’m sure there have been and are others like this in other areas of the world.

By: Yosh

Yosh — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:15:16 +0000

Imagine not seeing the sun for 20 years. Then imagine kicking this a*hole so hard in his nuts that he dies. That’s justice.

By: Lea

Lea — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:11:11 +0000

I agree with Persephone.
There are no words to describe the gut-churning awfulness of this whole situation.
And I don’t believe it. There is no way the wife knew nothing for 24 years. That’s some BIG TIME denial or she’s just as evil as he is by doing nothing.

And the point of neatorama is not to be neato-o-happy-go-lucky-joy-joy. I think Alex (and all the other posters/writers/bloggers of the Neatorama community) want people to think and discuss and become aware.
You can’t JUST be aware of the pleasant things.

But that’s really beside the point.
I’d say what this bastard deserves beside my agreement with Persephone, but then I wouldn’t be allowed on the Internet anymore.

By: consciousj

consciousj — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:32:30 +0000

so THAT’S what donald sutherland has been up to

By: haribo

haribo — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:27:45 +0000

Couldn’t agree more Ben B.

By: Ben B.

Ben B. — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:22:01 +0000

Ok.

I have a question.

How — exactly — is this… “neat” ???

This is neat-o-rama, right? The blog of neat things?

It sure seems to be devolving.

By: Persephone

Persephone — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:16:48 +0000

The wife had to know. The latest story I read says the basement addition was inspected by local authorities. It has been reported that she and the other children knew it was there, but Fritzl was such an authoritarian that they just obeyed him.

I believe she knew. She knew. She had to know. And she had to know he was abusing their daughter before this. She chose to turn a blind eye. She should be prosecuted.

By: cuimhne

cuimhne — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:08:21 +0000

This is in all the newspapers at the moment. He was an engineer or something and the place where they were kept had a huge cement door that hid it from the main basement. I don’t think that the wife was as ignorant of it all as she claims though. The poor daughter had to give birth 7 times with no medical assistance.

By: BenG

BenG — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:42:53 +0000

In most situations I’m a big fan of exile. In his case it’d have to be a pretty horrible place.

By: Persephone

Persephone — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:25:51 +0000

And the most jail time he can receive is 15 years if convicted? Just wrong. He should get 15 years chained in that basement, in the dark, at the least, with Bubba the Cornholer visiting him every day.

By: OddNumber

OddNumber — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:25:35 +0000

I can’t imagine the psychological damage to that guy’s daughter and their children. I can’t help but hope that his stay in jail is similar to what he put her through.

By: Raaaage Monkey

Raaaage Monkey — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:34:51 +0000

It’s like something straight from a philosophy textbook. Wonder what their view of the world was like.

By: sam

sam — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:27:34 +0000

I say this guy should either get the death penalty or, at the very least, life in prison. He has already caused the death of one child due to neglect - and ruined the lives of several other people.

If they turn out anything like the child found in a similar situation in the 60s (discovered in 1970), they’ll probably be mentally handicapped and incapable of joining society. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_%28feral_child%29

In my opinion, 13 years of torture - or in this case - 24 years of torture - is worse than just killing someone. Adding rape of his own daughter to the charges should get him put away forever.

Here’s Genie’s story - and enough to convince you to agree with me about the death penalty: http://youtube.com/watch?v=4I5mZIFxSlk

By: Badjuk

Badjuk — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:26:24 +0000

Austrian people are sick? :/

By: otterly

otterly — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:23:52 +0000

This is Unspeakable. There’s a special little corner of hell reserved for people like this.

By: Toby B

Toby B — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:01:02 +0000

Legit? Really? I would say he’s insane, but to pull off a feat such as this, you’d have to know what you were doing. I just hope he doesn’t get off on the insanity defense.

By: Debuhtts

Debuhtts — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:42:36 +0000

This guy is Legit