Certain pieces of news, certain events and certain issues within the media and society are always hard to listen to. Death is never an easy topic to acknowledge. Neither is violence or crime. And most relevant to today's event, neither is sexual abuse.
On this day in 2008, Josef Fritzel, an 73-year-old Austrian man was arrested on the suspicion of keeping his daughter, now 42, locked in a cellar in Amstetten for 24 years. The crime committed by Fritzel, was only discovered when the woman, believed to be missing since 1984, took her teenage daughter, fathered by her father, to hospital. Apart from the hospitalised teenage daughter, Fritzel and his daughter, the 42-year-old woman had six other children together. Fritzel admitted to raping her a few times a week with the estimated number of attacks being well over 3000 during the course of her captivity.
Just reading that brings a disgusting taste into my mouth. How can she be alright? HOW she be alright? HOW? It's just not something you ever want to hear about anywhere. It's the not the sort of topic you accept lightly.
It's not the sort of topic you accept at all.
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