“A man held a woman prisoner for decades in an underground cell, forcing her to bear seven of his children. The victim was his own daughter. Behind this door and underground, unthinkable horrors occurred unheard and unnoticed for at least 24 years. 73-year-old Joseph Fritzl, an electrical engineer, kept his own daughter imprisoned as a sex slave. He reportedly confessed to authorities he fathered seven children with her. One is said to have died as an infant. His wife and their own six children lived upstairs, allegedly unaware.”
This news item has shaken my soul. I have been trying to follow the news quite closely and every time new details are revealed my soul shudders at the cruelty and injustice to the girl. How can this happen? Can’t be real? My heart goes out for the girl…………. How can your own father even think of doing this to you? Seriously what kind of twisted world are we living in? Is this the world we want to pass in out to our kids?
Is it just me or does it seem ludicrous that a man who imprisons his daughter in a cellar for 24 years, repeatedly rapes her, and fathers 7 of his own grand children with her, can only go to prison for a maximum 15 years? Where’s the justice? Come on the man was convicted of rape – he shouldn’t be allowed to be near his daughters at the first place, leave alone living under same roof. Are we as society have become too polite to notice the atrocities happening in our own neighborhood and simply closing our eyes b’coz it is not directly affecting us?
And now the man’s lawyer is saying –his client shouldn’t face jail as he in mentally ill”. Instead he claimed he should receive psychiatric care and not be put on trial. Shouldn’t face jail as he in mentally ill – I simply couldn’t comprehend that. The man who cold bloodily planned and executed all this for last 24 years – is not fit to face trial. The man who was so calculating and meticulous in last 24 years is suddenly not fit to face trial?
And I though “life was so unfair” when I missed my morning cuppa of coffee, or today morning when I forgot to bring umbrella, or when I didn’t took my sunscreen bottle along on my hiking trip. Wish life was this unfair for Elizabeth and her kids. Wish we could do something to ease off her pain.
Reflections 