Women never cease to amaze me

[aneeshm]

Read it and weep for mankind.

Cellar monster Josef Fritzl receives hundreds of love letters

Cellar monster Josef Fritzl has been sent hundreds of love letters from lonely women offering him romance.

Some of the women have said that Fritzl, who locked his daughter Elisabeth in a cellar for 24 years and fathered her children, is 'good at heart' and misunderstood.

Fritzl has so far received a mountain of 200 love letters.

Those writing to the 73-year-old former electrician believe that he wanted to keep his daughter out of trouble and so kept her prisoner for most of her life.

Fritzl fathered seven children through his daughter and he is now in Austria's Sankt Poelten prison where he has also received a mountain of hate mail.

So far he has received a total of 5,000 letters.

Elisabeth, 42, is recovering in a psychiatric clinic. Three of her children were kept prisoner in the dungeon with her.

He is due in court again on Friday – when he will almost certainly be sent back to jail to await trial.

Prosecutor Gerhard Sedlacek has said that Fritzl did not have an accomplice.

From the start, investigators have said there was no sign that Fritzl had help - even though many have been baffled how he managed to keep his daughter and their children hidden for so long.

 

[warpus]

And there are plenty of guys out there who write love letters to Paris Hilton.

Thread title shouldn't have been "Women never cease to amaze me.." That thread title is very telling of your own views on women.

"Some people are stupid" would have been more appropriate.

 

[Arwon]

Ayup. </thread>

 

[aneeshm]

And there are plenty of guys out there who write love letters to Paris Hilton.

Last I heard, Paris Hilton had not imprisoned her own son in a cellar for many years and raped him and had his children.

 

[MobBoss]

Last I heard, Paris Hilton had not imprisoned her own son in a cellar for many years and raped him and had his children.

Paris Hilton has a son?

 

[Bill3000]

Last I heard, Paris Hilton had not imprisoned her own son in a cellar for many years and raped him and had his children.

Granted, but that's the norm in India.
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[LucyDuke]

Right. Women.

So I find some story that says most rapists are men, and I say "men never cease to amaze me". 'Cause, you know, it's typical. It's 'cause they're men.

It's too bad that, as far as I can tell anyway, you're serious. It's also too bad that there are women that will be dumb enough to put up with you.

 

[Kyriakos]

Not surprising, actually it is quite common for this sort of thing to happen. From what i have read on the issue it happens because those writing the letters are subconsciously afraid of the person in prison, and want to be on friendly terms with him.

 

[I'm Cleo!]

It's like this:

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Cleo

 

[LucyDuke]

That crossed my mind, too, Cleo.

 

[aneeshm]

Right. Women.

So I find some story that says most rapists are men, and I say "men never cease to amaze me". 'Cause, you know, it's typical. It's 'cause they're men.

It's too bad that, as far as I can tell anyway, you're serious. It's also too bad that there are women that will be dumb enough to put up with you.

You don't think it completely aberrant that more than two hundred women offered this man their romantic affections? Rape as a crime is understandable, though not condonable. This is just plain bizarre!

 

[Babbler]

How are we sure all the letters came from women?

 

[Grisu]

some people are just stupid/sick, nothing to do with gender at all....

 

[Grisu]

You don't think it completely aberrant that more than two hundred women offered this man their romantic affections? Rape as a crime is understandable, though not condonable. This is just plain bizarre!

and how about locking up your own daughter(s) and raping them repeatedly? last time checked Fritzl was a man. Neither sex gets to claim the moral high ground based on these examples...

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Humans never cease to amaze me.

Really, you'd think I'd learn by now, but noooo . . .

 

[LightFang]

Men never cease to amaze me.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/04/28/austria.cellar/index.html

AMSTETTEN, Austria (CNN) -- Three children freed from a cellar in which their mother had been imprisoned and raped by her own father for 24 years had never seen daylight, police in Austria have confirmed.

Police spokesman Franz Polzer told CNN that 73-year-old Josef Fritzl admitted holding his daughter, Elisabeth Fritzl, 42, hostage in the windowless cell and fathering seven children by her.

"The mother had memories [of the outside world] and got used to the situation," Polzer told a press conference Monday afternoon. "The others knew nothing else."

The main question reverberating from the small Austrian town: How could a man keep his daughter locked in his basement for 24 years, where she gave birth to seven of his children while her mother and three of those children lived upstairs without an inkling of the horrors in the cellar?

Fritzl explained Elisabeth's disappearance by saying she had run away from home, a story backed up by letters he forced Elisabeth to write, including one that begged her parents not to look for her.

Other letters made it seem the missing daughter had left the three children on the parents' doorstep -- when in fact they had been born in captivity in the family's basement.

Elisabeth told police that she and her three children Kerstin, 19; Stefan, 18; and Felix, 5, did not see the light of day during their entire time in captivity underneath the building in Amstetten, a rural town about 150 km (93 miles) west of Vienna.

Elisabeth is described as "very disturbed" and having trouble talking to police about her ordeal, reports CNN correspondent Fred Pleitgen. She went missing in 1984, when she was 18 years old, police have said.

More details also emerged at the news conference about the basement dungeon in which the daughter and her children were kept -- and how her father managed to keep them captive for more than two decades.

The authorities have revealed that the prison, constructed in the basement of the 1960s building, ran underneath both the building itself and the garden outside.

The entrance was via a small door, hidden behind cupboards in the basement, controlled by an electronic keyless-entry system. Polzer said that the prison was hard to find, even if someone was looking for it, and had been soundproofed.

"Even though they shouted and called they were not in a position to let anyone hear them," Polzer told the press conference.

Polzer said that Fritzl made clear to his wife and other children that the area was out of bounds and they were not to go into the basement. He bought food and took it to his captives in the evening.

Detectives made the grim discovery about the cellar earlier this month after Kerstin was hospitalized in Amstetten after falling unconscious and taken to a hospital in Amstetten by her grandfather with a SOS note from her mother hidden on her.

A DNA test was later carried out which revealed her grandfather, Josef Fritzl, was also her father, according to ORF, Austria's state-run news agency.

That sparked a police investigation, which revealed that Fritzl fathered at least six children with his daughter, forcing her and three of the surviving children to live in the cellar of his house, according to ORF's Peter Schmitzberger.

On Sunday, police searched the hidden rooms where Fritzl admitted he kept his daughter and their children, including sleeping quarters, a kitchen and a bathroom, which Fritzl told police he built, Polzer said.

Amstetten police say they were put on Fritzl's trail following an anonymous tip off. They apprehended the pair on Saturday near the hospital and once police assured the daughter that she would never have contact with her father again, "she was able to tell the whole story," Schmitzberger said.

Elisabeth said her father began sexually abusing her at age 11. On August 8, 1984 -- weeks before she was reported missing -- her father enticed her into the basement, where he drugged her, put her in handcuffs and locked her in a room, she told police.

For the next 24 years, she was constantly raped by her father, resulting in the six surviving children, she said, according to the police statement.

She also told police she gave birth to twins in 1996, but one of the babies died a few days later as a result of neglect, and Fritzl removed the infant's body and burned it in an oven.

She told police that only her father supplied her and her children with food and clothing, and that she did not think his wife knew anything about their situation

Fritzl lived upstairs with his wife, Rosemarie, who police said had no idea about her husband's other family living in the cellar. The couple adopted three of the children that Fritzl had with his daughter, according to police. He told his wife that his missing daughter had dropped the unwanted children off at the house because she could not take care of them, police said.

When Kerstin fell ill, Fritzl apparently told his wife and the hospital that his "missing" daughter had dropped off the sick girl on his doorstep.

In an effort to find out about Kerstin's condition, the hospital and police asked the media to put out a bulletin requesting any information about the girl or her missing mother, attorney general Gerhard Sedlacek told NTV.
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Sometime later, Fritzl brought Elisabeth out of the cellar, telling his wife that she had returned home with her two children after a 24-year absence, police said.

He took Elisabeth to the hospital to talk with doctors about Kerstin's condition, and at that point, authorities became aware of her situation, Sedlacek said.

 

[Arwon]

and how about locking up your own daughter(s) and raping them repeatedly? last time checked Fritzl was a man. Neither sex gets to claim the moral high ground based on these examples...

Yeah that's what struck me here. Some sick bastard locks up and rapes several women, his own daughters no less, and we're meant to "weep" because some women have some strange fixation and write to him?

 

[JollyRoger]

Fritzl 200 Unnamed Others 0

 

[Mise]

Read it and weep for mankind.

You're just jealous that you've never had any love-letters.

And seriously, the Daily Mail?

 

[warpus]

Those wacky Indians!