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Austrian police are continuing to question an elderly man who admitted holding his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and keeping other family member captive. Josef Fritzl, whom is now 73 years old, is accused of sexually abusing Elisabeth Fritzl, 42, and fathering seven children by her. They will all need extensive therapy to come to terms with the horrific ordeal, medical officials have stated in reports.
CNN is reporting that members of the Fritzl family will also be offered the chance to adopt new identities in an effort to help them lead normal lives, officials said. Police said Josef Fritzl also admitted burning the body of a baby who died at the house in Amstetten, Lower Austria. He remains in custody. *** According to Sky News, Austrian police said he had no accomplices and planned his crime too meticulously to have been caught any earlier. They also confirmed they were investigating him for possible links to the murder of a young woman more than 20 years ago. Police say Fritzl had admitted imprisoning his daughter and fathering her children but refused to explain further. Former captive Natascha Kampusch has held out hope that the Fritzl family can come to terms with their ordeal and she speaks out in a video interview here from the BBC. *** She was abducted at the age of 10 in 1998, and remained in custody of her kidnapper, for more than eight years, until she escaped on 23 August 2006. See photos here from CNN of the basement and a hidden, narrow bedroom found in the cellar of the house where Josef Fritzl held his daughter captive.
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