Fritzl House of Horrors Trial- Day 3 – SHOCKER!

Elisabeth Fritzl has made a shock appearance in court to confront the father who imprisoned her for 24 years.

Josef Fritzl’s daughter was present to watch video of herself telling the jury that her monster father raped her every day and murdered his own son.

She also witnessed her father’s reaction to her horrifying story.

Her presence in court on Monday and Tuesday was revealed by sources familiar with the trial today as her father dramatically pleaded guilty to all charges against him – including murder.

His change of heart was prompted by his daughter’s harrowing evidence – delivered by video as Elisabeth had originally begged to never see her father in person again.

The 73-year-old told a stunned court in St Poelten, Austria, this morning that he now admitted all the charges, including murder and slavery.

Asked why he had changed his plea, Fritzl told the panel of judges: ‘When I saw the video tapes I realised for the first time how cruel I was to Elisabeth.’

He added: ‘I’m sorry.’

Elisabeth’s presence may have helped spur his guilty plea.

This morning he branded his own behaviour ’sick’ as he admitted everything, although he insisted the death of his son Michael had been an accident.

The newborn twin died three days after his birth in the dungeon at Fritzl’s home in Amstetten in 1996 after developing breathing problems.

Additionally, he rescinded the statements he previously made about his daughter agreeing to the sex acts. He admits to drugging her, and tieing her up to have his wicked way with her. I wonder where this will end. Now that he has agreed to murder.. surely it’s life in prison for this man, right?

Fritzl House of Horrors Trial – Day 1

The suffering and sexual depravity of the ‘concrete kingdom’ Josef Fritzl created in an underground dungeon for his daughter were described to a court today. Jurors listened in horror as the state prosecutor, Mrs. Burkheiser, described in sickening detail the level of abuse that Elisabeth was forced to endure for more than 20 years.

The court listened in silence as they heard how when the children were born Elisabeth was left alone with nothing but an old book on childbirth, dirty scissors and a dirty mattress.

‘Josef Fritzl used his daughter like his property,’ said Mrs Burkheiser.

The 73-year-old raped his daughter without saying a word to her for the first nine years of her 24-year imprisonment, it was revealed.

Mrs Burkheiser used a laser pen to outline how low the cellar’s ceiling was, about five feet, and to detail the dimensions of the last door leading into it,  which could only be accessed by crawling through on the hands and knees.

‘I have been to the cellar twice,’ she told jurors as Fritzl stared ahead at Judge Andrea Humer, his back to the press and public. ‘It  smells, it is incredibly damp. It has a morbid atmosphere that hits you as you crawl through the 83 square centimetre entrance hole. The damp creeps in within minutes. .’

Fritzl showed little emotion throughout the proceedings, seeming to squirm only once when Mrs. Burkheiser leaned in close to him and said: ‘Mr. Fritzl, how could you do this to your own flesh and blood?’

Mrs Burkheiser said that in the first three years of Elisabeth’s incarceration there was no hot water, shower or heating.She alleged that Fritzl once punished the young woman by shutting off electricity to the dungeon, and forced her to spend the first part of her captivity in a tiny space that didn’t even have a shower.

She added that among the worst aspects of Elisabeth’s ordeal was ‘the uncertainty as to when he would come down again, and rape before the eyes of the children.

Fritzl arrived in court this morning amid bizarre scenes as he shielded his face with a blue ring binder.TV cameras were allowed in for the first few minutes of the trial, but he kept his face buried in the folder as journalists asked questions which he refused to answer.

Shame? I don’t think so. This man does, after all, feel that he was the victim in all this. His mommy didn’t love him. Pathetic loser.

Fritzl’s House of Horror – A Timeline

1935. Josef Fritzl was born in Amstetten, Austria

1955. Josef Fritzl graduates as an electrical engineer

1957. At the age of 22, he marries Rosemarie, 17. Their first daughter Ulrike is born the same year. Daughter Rosemarie is born in 1960, and their son Harald, 1963.

1966. The couple’s fourth child, Elisabeth, is born.

1967. Josef Fritzl is sentenced to 18 months of prison for the rape of a nurse while threatening her with a knife. Rosemarie told the children he had gone away for work.

1969. Having done his prison time, Fritzl finds a job with a construction firm in Amstetten.

1970. Josef Fritzl starts visiting the brothel Villa Ostende.  He very quickly acquires a reputation for being violent and is most unpopular amongst the prostitutes.

1971. Rosemarie gives birth to twins; Gabriele och Josef.

1972. Rosemarie and Josef’s last child together, Doris,  is born. Josef Fritzl abuses Elisabeth for the first time. She is 11 years old.

1978. Building permission for a bunker on Ybbsstrasse 40, is granted.

1984. On August 28 Josef Fritzl sedates his daughter using ether and imprisons her in the bunker.

24 years of hell begin.

Elisabeth’s basement days were chronicled

By using very small pieces of paper that she hid in different places in her underground prison, Elisabeth Fritzl managed to keep a diary with dates and times of almost every attack by her father Josef Fritzl, on her or the kids.

In one emotional entry she describes how she rocked her dying son in her arms until he turned blue and died from respiratory distress. He was Elizabeth’s 7th child sired by her sick father.

Josef Fritzl later burned the infants body in a furnace and spread the ashes in his garden. It is this little boy’s death that forms the basis for the murder plea against Mr. Fritzl.

In other diary entries, Elisabeth describes how she’d catch rats with her bare hands, and how fascinated her children were by every day items like a mirror or bathroom scales.

The diary explains how Elisabeth at first struggled against her father’s attacks, but once her first child had been born, she stopped struggling for the sake of her children.

This diary, which describes Elisabeth’s 8,642 days underground reveals how fickle Josef Fritzl’s decisions on who would live with him and his wife above ground were. One of the children accompanied him above ground as he had managed to wind a length of thread around his toe and would not stop crying. Josef Fritzl, worried that his neighbors would hear the crying and become suspicious, brought the child up into the house, but by the time he had discovered the thread, his wife had already come home. He therefore made up a story that Elisabeth had left the child outside their door and gone back to the cult with which he claimed she was living.

The diary also bears witness to how Josef Fritzl would torture the children stuck underground with pictures of their siblings playing in the garden or in a swimming pool.

I’m not an advocate of the death penalty, but I think this case could change my mind. This man does not deserve to breathe the same air we do. However, I think locking him in solitary confinement underground without access to daylight, for the rest of his miserable life, would be the best punishment for him.

Conservatives – where did your common sense go?

So, I get an email today from a republican friend, with an incensed question of  “WHAT is the world coming to” and the reason for her incredulous question is an email she’s had from another conservative friend claiming that Obama has given China the right to exercise eminent domain over the USA if we default on our loans.

I’m flabbergasted. I know this person. She’s SMART. Yet, she has fallen for this CRAP, hook, line and sinker. She actually believes that Obama has, effectively, sold us to the Chinese. I mean.. REALLY. WHERE is the frickin common sense?????

First of all, were this to be true, wouldn’t their very own Propaganda Tank, Fox News, be ALL OVER it? Wouldn’t they be gleefully and righteously reporting about the scumbag action purportedly committed by our President?

Second.. there simply HAS to be a limit to the dastardly deeds these people believe our President capable of. I know, I know.. we’ve had 8 years of dictatorship rule, secrecy and flagrant violation of international laws, but that was then.. under REPUBLICAN rule. (My republican friend never ONCE made a huge song and dance of anything our former President did, though. Funnily enough.) But even though we have been shown how low that office has been capable of stooping, this would be so low that the whole world would draw a communal gasp of horror. It is so unthinkable, I didn’t even imagine for a minute even a Conservative fanatic could come up with it. But come up with it they did, and the masses have done their normal lemming train and believed every word of the diatribe.

Republicans, conservatives. Shame on you. Don’t be dragging otherwise intelligent people into the deep crevasse of your ludicrous nonsense. It is unpatriotic.

Why is it that hypocritical people don’t realize that they are?

Rush Limbaugh… when you look up the word hypocritical in a dictionary, there should be a picture of Mr. Limbaugh, right there. He is so incredibly unaware of how stupid, hypocritical (yes, I said it again), and pathetic he is, that it has actually seized to be funny. And what is even less comical is how people fall for it.

“Limbaugh used his self-described “first national address,” which ran more than an hour longer than his allotted 20 minutes, to accuse President Obama of inspiring fear in Americans in order to push a liberal agenda of “big government.”

“He wants people in fear, angst and crisis, fearing the worst each and every day, because that clears the decks for President Obama and his pals to come in with the answers, which are abject failures, historically shown and demonstrated. Doesn’t matter. They’ll have control of it when it’s all over. And that’s what they want,” Limbaugh said.”

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/28/limbaugh.speech.cpac/

Does this man not realize that he has just described the presidency of no. 43, which we had to put up with for 8 years? Is he so incredibly dense that he doesn’t see the irony in what he is saying? What’s worse.. the people there listening to his diabolical diatribe cheer for him. Which of course means, they don’t see the hypocrisy either. And to think a large part of this country’s conservatives like this man. I shudder at the thought., and the prospects.

My very first children’s book!

I am so proud, I’ve finally taken the step to self-publish my first (finished) children’s book.  It has been such a boost to my self-esteem to see my book on Amazon.com, and I just wanted to get the message out there. You, too, can do it! Write your life’s memoir, write that children’s book you always wanted to write, and then publish it yourself! It can actually be done for VERY little money (I have spent less than $30 to get my book on Amazon.com!!) and you feel like a new person once it’s all said and done.

I used a service called Createspace, and I also have my book for sale there. Take a look, check the service and then dust off that book that you started writing years ago. Finish it and publish it! You will not regret it.

https://www.createspace.com/Customer/EStore.do?id=3361168

Aiming for a size zero?

Craving that flat-chested, skin-and-bone look of some of the actresses out there today? Well, make sure you stock up on not only laxatives, but also tums for your bones. Following a starvation diet, your “fat” won’t be the only thing leaving your frame, but you’ll also lose bone mass, creating a problem that will haunt you for the rest of your life. Brittle bones can make a 50 year old look and feel like a 95 year old.

Is it really worth it? Just to fit into children’s clothes as a woman?

I don’t get that mentality. At all.

Translation of a Swedish blogger’s post about Facebook’s sudden morality

A picture of a mother nursing her baby, gazing into her baby’s eyes, is one of the most beautiful pictures you can find, this Swedish blogger writes. More beautiful than a picture of a sunrise of the Serengeti, even. People (read men) are so friggin boob-fixated that they are constantly confusing the concepts.

Just like a stubborn child wanting candy all hours of the day, men want boobs for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But OH MY GOD not with a baby suckling on it!!

In her blogg she sometimes writes about  how she practices “provocation-nursing” (nursing in public). This makes some of her readers very irritated and some write to say surely there is no-one out there giving a damn about whether she’s nursing her baby while she is out. But yes, this blogger says, many people (read men) think breasts filled with milk are disgusting.

That Facebook is now actually removing pictures of mothers nursing their babies while pictures of child pornography and other things are left alone, says it all, she continues. She does not think much of the United States. Everyone enhances their boobs and have to go to church, she says (I agree with her sentiments!!). Why is it okay that a mother of three fills her boobs with silicon to look alluring but she cannot nurse her baby during a meeting? People (read men) have become completely photoshop-damaged. If they see something natural they pee their pants.

Nursing can not take place in public and someone else has to change those poop-filled diapers. But sex in all available holes and squeezing the boobs until they are bruised, that’s okay.  (How I wish I had this lady’s eloquence!)

She ends her blog by saying she’s heading to Facebook to put up a juicy, aereola-filled picture of herself leaking through a thin blouse. I say, you go girl!

Vaccinate against smoking

Swedish reserachers have joined an international body of researchers in the fight against smoking and have now developed a vaccine that should stop the cravings. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm have, with the help of the company Independent Pharmaceutica, developed a vaccine that will be tested at five different clinics in three Scandinavian countries.

400 people will get help and support to stop smoking and will receive anti-smoking medication, as well as 4 injections every other month. Half the group will get the vaccine, whereas the other half will get a placebo.

The vaccine, namde Niccine, helps the body develop antibodies to nicotine, and will prevent nicotine from reaching the part of the brain that registers pleasure from the drug. In so doing, the “high” reached from smoking which keeps the addiction going, will be bypassed. The hope is that once weaned off cigarettes, the ex-smoker will no longer wish to return to the habit.

Here in the US, Pfizer offers a vaccine called Chantix, which largely does the same thing. Perhaps there’s finally hope for those who wish to stop smoking but find it hard to kick the habit.