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Or even if you walked wrongly or in a way he did not like. 'When he was at the table and we were eating and someone was holding their knife wrongly, or did not want to eat, there would be verbal abuse. He would say, 'Shut up and get away from me.' And if that wasn't enough he would be even more abusive.'įritzl became more controlling as the children grew older and developed their own personalities, he said. 'When he said such words against the kids they ducked and tried to get out of his way. He would be insulting against me and the children. She continued: 'It was his kind of communication to use rough words. She told the judge how she feared to leave her children alone with Fritzl. She asked: 'You tried to make life as easy as possible in order to stop him being dangerous?'

#Elisabeth fritzl now photo 2020 series#

The family were only rescued when the oldest child, Kerstin, became ill and had to be taken to a hospital earlier this year.Īustria's most senior female judge, Andrea Humer, asked Elisabeth the series of delicate questions as part of the case against Fritzl. When the seventh died still a baby, he threw the body into the furnace. Three - Kerstin, now 19, Stefan, 18, and Felix, six - he condemned to life in the cellar.

Three - Lisa, now 16, Monica, 14, and Alex, 12 - he selected to live upstairs with him and his wife, Rosemarie, telling her that Elisabeth had run away and left the children on the doorstep. When he came down to the cellar we just tried to survive.įritzl fathered seven children in the cellar in Amstetten, Austria. 'When he was down here it was all silence. 'When he went away we led our own lives,' she reportedly said in the statements. 'He said he could close the door whenever he wanted and then we would see how soon we survived.'Įlisabeth desperately tried to give her children as normal a life as possible in the cellar, singing songs to them and telling them stories.īut whenever Fritzl entered the cellar, she said, the atmosphere would change. She said: 'He would often say we had no chance down under, in the cellar where it all happened. We knew he would kick us or be bad to us.'įritzl also threatened to leave her and her children to rot behind the locked door and bullied the children when they dared to answer back to him. 'When I did not agree to have sex, then the kids would suffer. Elisabeth Fritzl, right, has spoken for the first time of her ordeal at the hands of her monstrous father Josef, leftĬalling her father 'all-powerful', she was quoted in the Sun as saying: 'He was very brutal against me.