Austria Produces New World Record in Human Depravity

Here's the gist of it: 73-year old man confesses to kidnapping, locking up, and sexually molesting her daughter for 24 years (since age 11), and fathering seven children with her in that time. For a final touch, he incinerated one child's corpse after he died in the same cramped cellar where he held them for 24 years, and adopted 3 of the 6 children in the course of events to live above ground. Wife and adopted kids never had a clue.

Read this atrocious story here, or just turn on your TV and go to any news Network channel.

Comments

[Brock]

What a creep. This situation reminds me of Plato's "Allegory of the Cave." I also wonder why he has been so forthcoming in confessing to the authorities? A strange type of love and care for his "children?" Old age? Guilty conscience? Crazy.

[Marianne Beasley]

I would like to see this man burned at a stake. Where has god been for the past 24 years that such horrific monstrous abuse could go on? While this man is successful financially and respected in his community, he rapes and beats his daugther, imprisons her, has children by her, imprisions some of them? Where has God been?

[LIsa]

WEll, remember that this is a country that likes to separate itself from the horrors of the Holocaust even though Austrians are as guilty as the Poles and the Germans for putting millions to death. Hitler was Austrian and before he left Austria for Germany, he had plenty of "teachers" of hate. This country even had a former Nazi as their President!! This man should be gassed and burned. His wife should be too -- she didn't know? -- sounds like the "I was just following orders" excuse.....

[RLG Virginia]

Monster.
Death is far too good for some people.
Let him rot for the rest of his misbegotten life without ever seeing daylight again...

[J]

Perhaps the best argument for retaining the death penalty.

This man is barely human and does not deserve to live.

[corsair the rational pirate]

Marianne:

Where has God been?

Need you further proof that there isn't a god?

Did he do this to punish the girl and the kids conceived from her father for some reason? Did the girl not pray hard enough or offer up enough sacrifices?

Did he do it to make the father think about his wicked ways? Over and over and over for 24 years?

Does he have a plan that now kicks into effect that will stop the next incestuous grandfather from imprisoning his daughter in the basement and impregnating her multiple times?

How about "no." There is no god (see Rwanda, the tsunami victims, the Jews, and American Idol) and he can't help you or anyone since he isn't there.

[James]

"WEll, remember that this is a country that likes to separate itself from the horrors of the Holocaust even though Austrians are as guilty as the Poles and the Germans for putting millions to death."

I would like to inform you that this creep is Jewish, http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2008/WORLD/europe/04/28/austria.cellar/art.cellar.gi.jpg

Notice the Star of David on the wall

[SB]

While this is an extremely disturbing story, I'm really surprised that a university blog would not check facts before writing about it. The woman was imprisoned at age 18, not age 11. Every news article I have read on this subject says she was 18, so I don't know where you got age 11.

[Mom1725]

It's not God, it's that old Lucifer fella, trying to make God look bad. He slithers in through the smallest cracks and creates abominations. GOOD WINS OUT IN THE END. God will win out in the end. God just wants the world to see how evil things can get with Lucifer on the loose. Unfortunate for those who do not understand the cause of suffering. One day everyone will understand it.

[Brock]

Great, now my comment is going to be lumped in the same bin as the rest of them. Sigh. Back to work.