THE Austrian woman kept as a sex slave by her father for 24 years has thanked people for their support in her first public message since being released with her children, the daily Kurier reported today.
In a handwritten message displayed on a notice board in the square of their home town of Amstetten, Elisabeth Fritzl and her six surviving children thanked the many well-wishers for their messages of support since they were freed from a cramped, windowless dungeon at the end of April.
The family is currently being shielded from the media glare and receiving psychiatric counselling in a clinic in Amstetten, 100km west of Vienna.
In a drawing of an open pair of hands, Elisabeth Fritzl, now 42, writes: “I wish for the recovery of my daughter Kerstin, the love of my children, the protection of my family and for people with heart and compassion.”
Elisabeth’s father, 73-year-old Josef Fritzl, has confessed to imprisoning her since she was 18, epeatedly raping her and forcing her to bear seven children from that abuse.
One of the children died soon after birth, three were taken upstairs to live “normal” lives as Fritzl’s “grandchildren” and the other three remained incarcerated with their mother in the 55msq dungeon below the family home.
It was the hospitalisation of the eldest child, 19-year-old Kerstin, on April 19 that brought the shocking case to light.
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