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Australian 'Fritzl' case discovered

  • 17-09-2009 4:30pm
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    Steyr
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    http://news.ie.msn.com/world/article.aspx?cp-documentid=149745413

    Effin scum!:mad:

    By RTE.ie, Copyright © RTÉ, Updated: 17/09/2009Australian 'Fritzl' case discovered


    An Australian man has been accused of fathering four children with his daughter and raping her repeatedly over 30 years, according to an Australian newspaper report.

    The man, aged in his 60s, allegedly molested his daughter in the 1970s when she was 11 and continued until 2007, Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper reports.

    The newspaper said the girl had four children from her father, all of whom were born with birth defects, and one later died.

    Police in the southern state of Victoria would not immediately comment on the case, citing a court suppression order on the identity of the family.

    Local media in Australia made immediate comparisons with Austrian Josef Fritzl's incest case.

    Fritzl was jailed for life in May for holding his daughter as a sex slave for 24 years and murdering one of their seven children.

    The Herald Sun said the daughter was kept a 'virtual prisoner' in the family home about 100km east of Melbourne.

    The wife of the accused, the victim's mother, denied any knowledge of the abuse, the Herald Sun said, adding neighbours and child welfare authorities also failed to act on suspicions about the man.

    '‘We lived in a big house, so I wouldn't have known,' she told the newspaper.

    Victoria State Premier John Brumby said 'the full force of the law will be applied', acknowledging there would be questions about why the alleged abuse was not detected earlier.

    'Obviously any crime of this type is one that is shocking and that is personally repulsive to me and to other Victorians', he said.

    Police will reportedly use DNA evidence to prove the man is the biological father of his daughter's children when the case goes before the courts in November.

    The Herald Sun said all the victim's four children were born with birth defects in major Melbourne hospitals.

    One of them, a girl, died as a result of her health problems.

    The victim's mother told the Herald Sun her daughter would 'clam up' when questioned about who fathered her children, giving vague answers about meeting men in nightclubs.

    She described her husband as moody and abusive but said she never suspected him of sex crimes.

    The report said the victim went to police in 2005 after a neighbour urged her to take action, but then refused to cooperate further because she feared for her safety.

    However, she returned to police in June last year and gave a statement, the newspaper said.

    Police conducted DNA tests on the father and charged him with sexual abuse in February.

    One neighbour told the paper that she had suspicions about the man for at least four years but took no action because she did not want to interfere.

    The Age newspaper said the man initially faced 83 charges but they had since been reduced to 13; including five of incest, five of rape and two of indecently assaulting a girl under 16. It did not detail the last charge.

    The man is reportedly in custody awaiting the November court case, while his daughter and her surviving children are in state care.


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