Visit me in jail: Fritzl tells kids

13 April,2009 10:45 AM IST |   |  Agencies

Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who has been convicted of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in a windowless cellar and fathering her seven children, is begging his family through phone calls to visit him in jail.


Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who has been convicted of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in a windowless cellar and fathering her seven children, is begging his family through phone calls to visit him in jail.

The calls, however, usually end with kids hanging up on him, prison officials said.

lunatic: Josef Fritzl


The 74-year-old has not been able to contact his daughter Elisabeth (42) or the six children he fathered with her during her ordeal.

But he knows where she resides, and has even requested to be shifted to a prison nearer to her in the hope that she or the children might want to see him.

Austrian justice ministry officials have confirmed the phone call onslaught, after Fritzl started a life sentence for rape and the murder of one of his cellar children.

The ministry said it would be within Elisabeth's rights to protest his application to move to another jail if she felt his presence there would make her or her children uneasy.
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