Tea Break with Ianny

To yield to incestuous impulses is evil enough.  Josef Fritzl had taken that much, much further by planning, designing and improvising a confining facility just so it is available for his purpose for life.

The only access to the secret dungeon is only 3-foot high.  His daughter Elisabeth, his victim for 24 years, and several of their children born out of the abuse, could hardly make a dash out if by chance the door was left ajar.

But Monster Dad was a careful man.  That door, which from the outside is concealed behind a cupboard, can only be opened via a remote control he kept on himself.

There are narrow, constricting linkways between sections of the dungeon to help him manage his children - grandchildren really, whatever – into whichever section he deemed fit.

There are enough rooms for his victims’comfort so to speak, including one that is rubber-lined for soundproofing.  They can’t really complain.  No, not with the privilege of the use electricity and water.

The length at which he went to live this double life suggests that he rarely, if ever, thought about repentance.

Now he faces 15 years in another dungeon where I would say he belongs.

As for his children, grandchildren and his wife, we common folks will never appreciate the extent of mental and emotional damage they now have to heal.