In April 2008, a horrific case occurred in Austria. A 73-year-old father imprisoned his biological daughter for 24 years and gave birth to 7 children with her.
After hearing this, local people were very angry and asked to severely punish the "demon", but in the end he only needed to serve 15 years in prison, which was not as long as he imprisoned his daughter, which is very sad.
The father locked his daughter in the dungeon and used it as a tool for venting desires
There is a small town in Austria called Amstetten, Joseph is an ordinary resident here. He has worked as an engineer, a businessman, and lived a prosperous life. In the eyes of others, he is a perfect man, rich and status.
Joseph's wife is named Rosemary. She prepares meals for her husband every day and rushes to do housework at home. She is a typical image of a good wife and mother. Rosemary was only 17 years old when they got married, and they had multiple children after marriage.
Joseph's impression on the people around him has always been a low-key, humble and polite person, but when he returns home, he becomes another face. He has a very strong temper and often beats or scolds his family.
Wife Rosemary was beaten a lot. Once, he was beaten hard, and Joseph actually broke the pregnant Rosemary. Even so, Rosemary still chose to remain silent.
Because there are many children in the family and children like to play, as long as they disturb him, they will get angry at the child. Later, as soon as the children saw him, they would immediately stop playing and dare not make noises.
In this environment, there is a child who does not obey her father. Her name is Elizabeth. It is precisely because of her "rebellion" that she was abused and imprisoned by Joseph, who had a strong desire to control.
In fact, Elizabeth was sexually assaulted by her father Joseph at the age of 11. After entering puberty, Elizabeth began to smoke, drink, party, and even stayed at night.
These things are intolerable in the eyes of Joseph, who has a strong desire to control himself. He asked his family to listen to him, not to resist, but to obey.
So, he began to strictly control his daughter Elizabeth's private life, read her diary, search her room, and could not leave his sight except for school time.
Elizabeth gradually became taciturn from a lively and cheerful girl, and even her friends didn't come to play with her, because Joseph did not allow Elizabeth to go out to play.
Later, according to the investigation, it was found that the reason why Joseph was so cruel to his family was mainly due to his unfortunate childhood. When he was young, his mother didn't like her children and beat or scolded her children whenever she had disagreements, including Joseph.
Under the influence of such a family environment, Joseph's psychology was distorted. It is reported that in order to revenge his mother, Joseph imprisoned him in a confined room, with all the surroundings being buried without any light.
Once Elizabeth ran away from home by herself, which made Joseph completely crazy. At that time, Elizabeth ran away from home with a best friend, trying to escape from this depressing environment. But it was not long after that, the police found them and sent them back.
Seeing that he could no longer restrain his daughter, Joseph decided to take stricter supervision of Elizabeth and would never allow such a thing to happen again.
Joseph's house has a basement, which was built to prevent the outbreak of war and to avoid danger. But Elizabeth did not expect that this basement had trapped her for 24 years and suffered unprecedented humiliation.
In August 1984, Elizabeth and Joseph broke out in a fierce quarrel at home, when Rosemary was not at home. Joseph tricked Elizabeth into the basement and then dazzled her.
When Elizabeth woke up, she had been locked in a dim house and her hands were handcuffed. Elizabeth was very scared and shouted for help, but there was no sound outside.
This basement is large, with many rooms, and has all living facilities. There is a password lock outside. No one except Joseph knows the password.
When Elizabeth shouted that she was tired, the door of the room suddenly opened. Elizabeth begged her father to let him go and promised to be obedient in the future. But Joseph was not convinced and raped his biological daughter.
For Joseph, if she locked Elizabeth in the basement, she would not run around or be in danger. This is a kind of "protection" for her.
Since being locked in, Elizabeth's door opened almost every night, which means that the cruel father is coming again.
According to Elizabeth's self-reporter, Joseph tortured himself in different ways almost every day. During his days in the basement, he was sexually assaulted by his father about 3,000 times, completely treating himself as a tool for venting desires.
In a dark and dark imprisonment, she gave birth to seven children for her father and locked her biological daughter Elizabeth in the basement, not only did she feel guilty, but she also felt very accomplished. Because he thought he had successfully "controlled" his daughter so that she would not be "rebellious" and would not run around.
Since imprisoned Elizabeth, Joseph has completely brought two "masks". During the day, he is a respected businessman, and at night, he is the embodiment of the "demon", tortureing his daughter endlessly.
After Elizabeth disappeared, he immediately attracted the attention of people around him. In order not to be discovered, Joseph was about to stage a "thief shouting to catch the thief". He took the initiative to run to the police station and told the police that his daughter was missing.
In order to confuse the police's audio-visual, he also told the story of his daughter running away from home, and insisted that this time he disappeared must have been cheated by someone else.
In order to increase the authenticity of what he said, Joseph returned to the basement and forced Elizabeth to write a letter. Then Joseph put the letter at his doorstep, lied that it was a letter from his daughter.
He read the letter to his family and the police station. In the letter, Elizabeth said, "I have gone a long way and joined a "sect". I am living well now, don't look for me anymore."
With this letter, both the family and the police dispelled their suspicion of Joseph. No one expected that the Elizabeth they were looking for would be in the basement of their home, living a life of pain every night.
In order not to leak things, he did not allow anyone in his family to get close to the basement. In order to strengthen the control of Elizabeth, Joseph planned to let her have a child and use the child to make her willingly become her own sex slave.
1988, the fourth year after Elizabeth was imprisoned, 22-year-old Elizabeth became pregnant. You should know that Joseph was 53 years old at this time, which is really hard to believe.
When it was time to have a baby, Elizabeth was in great pain and begged her father Joseph to take her to the hospital. But Joseph was worried that the matter would be exposed and refused to take her out no matter what. He also brought a pair of scissors, some medicines, and a birth guide to let Elizabeth deliver her own baby.
It was in such a simple basement that Elizabeth survived and gave birth to her first child, named Kelsteen. The reason why Elizabeth was able to escape 20 years later was because of this child.
In the next ten years, Elizabeth gave birth to six more children, but unfortunately one of them died of illness just after birth.
As more and more children, the narrow basement began to appear slightly crowded and difficult to manage. So Joseph planned to bring some children to the ground to live.
Of course, the cunning Joseph could not take the child out directly. He secretly carried it out and put it at the door of the house when the child was a few months old, and then forced Elizabeth to write a letter of entrustment to put it in his cradle.
Then, Joseph said to his family: "Elizabeth gave birth to a child outside, and she couldn't afford it, so she sent it home." In this way, the child naturally became a member of the family.
Joseph used the same method to transfer the three children to the ground, and the three children continued to live in the basement and were not allowed to go out.
Joseph's crime was exposed, and his wife said she was completely unaware of it
Joseph was very cautious in doing things and imprisoned his daughter for more than 20 years without revealing any abnormalities. But in 2008, the "underground world" he established was discovered.
Since Elizabeth disappeared, people have been constantly suing Joseph. At first Joseph said he had received a letter from Elizabeth, which stated that she had joined the "sect". At that time, Elizabeth's classmates did not believe this statement at all, because they knew that Elizabeth had no free space in normal times, so how could he have time to get in touch with the "sect".
Later, the tenant at home saw that Joseph always went out with a big bag, and he also suspected that he had any secrets. But these people are just suspicious and have no evidence.
In 2008, Elizabeth's eldest daughter Kelstin fell ill, and became more and more ill, and even fell into a coma. Elizabeth begged Joseph to take the child out to the hospital for treatment, and it would probably not work if it was late.
At first, Joseph did not agree, but seeing that his child's life was in danger, he couldn't take so much, so he rushed to the hospital with his child.
After the examination, the doctor found that Kelsting's illness was very serious and he was even a little embarrassed to start. So the doctor wanted to retrieve Kelsteen's file and see if there were any previous diagnosis records.
However, what surprised the doctor was that the city could neither find her social security number nor did she have an birth certificate . The doctor quickly came out to find Joseph and asked him what happened to the girl.
Joseph was very panicked and didn't want to explain at all. He wanted to cure the child's illness and take it back. In desperation, the hospital called the police.
Faced with the police's interrogation, Joseph insisted that the child was his granddaughter and his daughter put it at his door many years ago. Then, Joseph also took out the letter that year and tried to deceive the police.
Both the police and the doctor were half-believing and half-doubted. The police then posted a missing person notice on TV, hoping that Elizabeth would come forward and explain clearly so that the hospital could save the person.
Elizabeth, who was in the basement, saw this missing person notice on TV. She begged Joseph to let him go and said, "That's your own child."
End, Joseph softened and took Elizabeth out of the dungeon.
Elizabeth was only 18 years old when she was locked up. Now she is no longer the beautiful girl she used to be. She is 42 years old. She has a pale face and skinny skin due to long-term malnutrition. She looks like a person in her 50s at first glance.
After the two arrived at the hospital, the police immediately asked the two separately. The police asked about the child why there was no birth certificate. At first, Elizabeth didn't want to answer, and she showed fear of the outside world.
After several hours of silence, Elizabeth could no longer hold back. She burst into tears and told her all the experiences over the years. In fact, I didn’t join any sect, but my biological father imprisoned me in the dungeon.
The police found the dungeon in Joseph's home based on clues, but they found that the door of the dungeon was equipped with an electronic password device. Joseph was once an electronic engineer, and this password lock was designed by him.
At that time, the police were worried that it might be dangerous to demolish it forcibly, so they did not forcefully enter. Under the pressure of the police, Joseph finally said the password of the electronic lock.
Policeman pushed the door and rescued the other two children. At that time, the two children were 18 years old and the other was only 5 years old. They grew up in the dungeon and had never even seen the sunshine.
As the child is rescued, Joseph's crime is finally discovered and he is caught by the police.
After the incident, Joseph's wife Rosemary said she was not aware of the matter. However, the three children who were brought to the ground still have to thank Rosemary, who were raised by her.
At the beginning, Joseph refused to plead guilty and hired a defense lawyer. Due to the huge impact of the incident, the defense lawyer was threatened many times.The reason why everyone threatened him was that he was actually willing to defend a "demon".
Later, under Elizabeth's testimony, 73-year-old Joseph pleaded guilty. Austrian prosecutor revealed that Elizabeth has kept a note over the years, which records in detail the humiliation he suffered and the birth of his child.
Joseph was sentenced to multiple crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment , but according to Austrian law, life imprisonment criminals can apply for parole after serving 15 years of prison. In other words, Joseph was sentenced to prison for not having been imprisoned for a long time. After the case of
was exposed, it attracted great attention. Many tourists even made special trips from a long distance to visit the dungeon where Elizabeth was detained. Regarding this phenomenon, Deputy Mayor Ursula said: "This behavior is too much. They don't consider the victim's feelings at all."
Although Joseph has pleaded guilty, he does not seem to recognize the mistakes in his actions. He once said in an interview that his daughter was imprisoned to "protect" her and not be hurt by the outside world. And he didn't hurt the child he gave birth to, and he felt that he was doing right.
Finally, Elizabeth and her 69-year-old mother Rosemary were reunited, and they also had a happy Christmas together. Later, the Elizabeth family moved to another city to live a stable and happy life.
