The trial of Austrian incest-rapist-“dungeon monster” Josef Fritzl started Monday, said Jeremy Armstrong in the Glasgow, Scotland, Daily Record, and the details are “horrendous.” According to prosecutors, the “73-year-old beast” locked his daughter in a dank cellar for 24 years, starting at age 18; he chained her "like a dog” for the first nine months and raped her more than 3,000 times in the following years. She bore him seven children; one died.
The details are so bad that jurors are being offered psychiatric counseling, said the Austrian Times in an editorial. But legal experts warn that the trial could turn into a farce. Fritzl pleaded guilty to rape, incest, and imprisonment, but denies the murder charge for the dead infant. If he beats the murder and slavery raps—and he might—he could be free in six and a half years.
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