Tuesday, April 29, 2008

More information please

So this guy in Austria...

He keeps his daughter prisoner in the basement, fathers seven children with her, and has three of them come live with him and his wife (leaves three more in the basement and one died).

Investigators say they believe his wife, with whom he had seven children, was unaware that the daughter she believed ran away to join a religious cult in 1984 was living as a prisoner beneath her feet.


So where did the wife think the three children that came to live with them came from?

Obviously she thought something, but none of the news outlets seem to be telling us.

3 comments:

M@ said...

I had the same question! I don't remember where, but I read in an article today that he told his wife that their daughter had run off to join a religious cult. Then the three children they raised "upstairs" he told his wife the daughter had sent to them to raise.

You'd think the wife at some point would have tried to find out more. I hate to point the finger at her but seriously, wtf.

There are no words for how fucked up that guy is, of course. Simply no words.

impudent strumpet said...

Oh that makes sense, thanks! Well, doesn't make sense, but it's an explanation. But not really an explanation, it's just...yeah.

You're right that there's no words. Any attempt to put together words to articulate anything about this situation makes it sound like you don't grasp the seriousness of it

laura k said...

Yes. And the same for the wife, in a way. Something must be seriously off with her, too.

I think it's ok to point a finger at someone whose denial helped enable such a thing.