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Evil incarnate Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned and raped daughter for 24 YEARS could be released in 2023!

Three judge state court panel has now decided Fritzel can be moved from the prison for mentally abnormal lawbreakers to a regular prison
UPDATED APR 22, 2022
Josef Fritzl  during day four of his trial at the country court of St. Poelten on March 19, 2009 in St. Poelten, Austria. (Photo Handout by APA via Getty Images)
Josef Fritzl during day four of his trial at the country court of St. Poelten on March 19, 2009 in St. Poelten, Austria. (Photo Handout by APA via Getty Images)

Josef Fritzl, who fathered seven of his daughter's children and kept her locked in a cellar dungeon as for 24 years, is set to be released from a psychiatric detention facility and moved to a regular prison to serve the rest of his sentence. The court has now decided that he can be moved from the prison for mentally abnormal lawbreakers, where he is currently incarcerated, to a regular prison, with a view to a release next year. 

The court decision, which needs approval in Vienna, is based on a psychiatric report, according to which Fritzl posses no longer poses any danger. If approved in Vienna, this would make Fritzl eligible for early release next year, in 2023, as under Austrian law - he has already served 15 years of his sentence. While unlikely, a 2023 release would mean he spent less time in jail than the time he kept his daughter locked up in the basement he built under their home.  

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Fritzl, 87, was jailed for life for imprisoning his daughter in a basement for 24 years. Fritzl kept his daughter Elisabeth locked in a soundproof basement beneath the family home in Amstetten, Austria. He raped his daughter multiple times during her captivity and ultimately, she gave birth to seven of his children between 1984 and 2008. Three of them remained in captivity with their mother, one died at the hands of Fritzl, a matter of days after being born. He disposed of the body in an incinerator. The other three were brought up by Fritzl and his wife, Rosemarie

This undated police handout image provided by Security Administration of Lower Austria shows a hidden bedroom at the house and hiding place, where Elisabeth Fritzl was imprisoned (Photo by SID Lower Austria via Getty Images)
In this undated Police handout image provided by Security Administration of Lower Austria a hidden bedroom at the house and hiding place, where a father imprisoned his daughter for 24 years (Photo by SID Lower Austria via Getty Images)

This incident came to light in April 2008, when their sick teenage daughter Kerstin had to be taken to a hospital. When Elisabeth, now 55, was given permission to finally leave the dungeon to visit Kerstin in hospital, she was arrested and subsequently told the police about the horrific crimes her father had committed. Fritzl was jailed on March 19, 2009, to life imprisonment for incest, rape, coercion, false imprisonment, enslavement and the negligent homicide of one of his infant sons.

Fritzl, who changed his name to Mayrhoff some five years ago, is reportedly suffering from dementia and had originally been scheduled last year for a potential release, but this was prevented on appeal. In another twist, a court expert was consulted and decided he should be conditionally released from some measures.

Meanwhile, Elisabeth Fritzl has not had any contact with her father since he was jailed and lives under a new alias in an unknown part of Austria with the children conceived during her 24 years of captivity.

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