Understandable, don’t you agree?
While Josef Fritzl is now facing life in prison for the murder of his baby son (who died three days after being born and who did not get the medical attention he needed because Josef did not want to be near his daughter as she gave birth, and whom he burned in his furnace), Elisabeth is making tremendous progress every day, spending time with her children and her mom. One of the first things she said to her rescuers, however, was “I never want to see his face again.” For her sake, I hope he is locked up for the rest of his life, and in solitary confinement for that matter.
What is going through her mother, Rosemarie’s head at this point? How do you reconcile the fact that you have spent your entire adult life married to a monster? How does Rosemarie cope with the fact that the man she married raped and abused her own daughter, right below her feet, for 24 years without her knowing? Does she look back, realizing the signs were there all along, or can she truly say she was completely in the dark all those years?
These women, and the children, are going to need some serious help for many years to come. I just hope it’s not too late.
