US EditionAustrian court says convicted rapist Josef Fritzl can be moved to prison from psychiatric detention
- 'Rapist Josef Fritzl could be transferred to a regular prison but release is unlikely,' according to an Austrian court.
- Fritzl, who held his daughter captive for 24 years and fathered seven children, has been serving a life sentence since 2009 for various crimes.
- The court mentioned Fritzl's advancing dementia and frailty as reasons not to release him from custody altogether.
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Holds daughter prisoner for 24 years, forcing her to have seven pregnancies before the illness of one of the seven children reveals the entire affair. Josef Fritzl, 89 years old, the 'monster of Amstetten' - the northern Austrian city where in 1984 he imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth then 18 years old in a soundproof basement of his house - will be transferred to a normal prison. This is what Austrian judges decided today.
Josef Fritzl had locked his daughter in the cellar for 24 years and raped him thousands of times. In 2009, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. The 89-year-old Austrian can now expect relief of imprisonment.
The Austrian court ruled that Fritzl is no longer dangerous and transferred him to a regular prison.
The regional court in Krems has decided that Josef Fritzl, who has been imprisoned for 24 years in his home cell, can transfer his daughter from a strictly protected institution for people with mental disabilities to a regular prison.
Josef Fritzl, sentenced to life imprisonment, is to be transferred from law enforcement to prison. The 89-year-old should “no longer pose any danger.”
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