Austrians are sick! Another father lock-daughter-in-dungeon incest case!

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Austrian father 'locked daughters in room for 41 years'
Police investigate mentally ill daughters' claims that 80-year-old father sexually abused them during decades of captivity

Associated Press
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A cameraman stands outside the Austrian house where the alleged attacks took place. Photograph: Rudolf Brandstaetter/AP

Austrian police are investigating claims that a man locked up his two mentally ill daughters in a small room in their home and sexually abused them for 41 years.

Officers said the 80-year-old repeatedly raped the women between 1970 and May 2011 in St Peter am Hart, near the Bavarian border. The alleged victims are now aged 53 and 45. A police official did not name either the suspect or the alleged victims.

Police confirmed they were investigating after a report in the Oberösterreichische Nachrichten newspaper.

The newspaper said the women escaped when the father was unable to get off the floor after the older daughter pushed him over when he last tried to rape her.

The police official said the 80-year-old suspect was free, pending an investigation and possible charges, because there was no danger of him fleeing.

The state broadcaster, ORF, said the claims were only recently revealed because the two alleged victims did not tell anyone about them for weeks after their escape. It said the suspect was now in a care home.

The allegations evoke the case of Josef Fritzl, an Austrian who imprisoned his daughter in a windowless cellar for 24 years and repeatedly raped her, fathering her seven children.

Fritzl was sentenced to life imprisonment two years ago for that crime and for responsibility in the death of one of the children.

 

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Argentine accused of fathering 10 children with own daughter

A 62-year-old man was arrested and charged with raping his daughter for more than 30 years and fathering 10 children with her, in a case "even worse" than that of Austria's Josef Fritzl in 2008, a judge said on Wednesday.

Judge brands case "even worse" than that of Austria's Josef Fritzl

12:11AM GMT 25 Nov 2010

"The accused denied the allegations but DNA tests have confirmed paternity," Judge Virgilio Palud told local radio.

The man has been charged with repeated sexual abuse and incest, crimes which carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, he added.

The man, whose identity was not disclosed, was arrested in June for alleged cattle rustling, prompting his daughter, now aged 43, to report him to the police despite his threats of harm if she talked. The case was first reported on Wednesday.

The daughter, whose identity was also not released, claims to have been beaten and raped since the age of 13 at the family's home in the village of Nicanor Molinas, 600 kilometres (375 miles) north of Buenos Aires. She said the incestuous rapes resulted in 10 children, now ages seven to 27, and that only the eldest knows their father and grandfather are one and the same, Judge Palud said.

"It's even worse than what happened in Austria," he added, referring to the horrific crimes of Josef Fritzl, sentenced to life in 2009 for having kept his daughter imprisoned for 24 years, fathering seven children with her and killing one of them. In the Argentine case, one of the 10 children born of the rapes has already died.

Judge Palud said another daughter of the suspect also claims to have been raped repeatedly by her father and to have had an abortion before she fled her home in the farming community of Santa Fe province. The case is the third such shocking father-daughter abuse to emerge in Argentina recently.

Last year, the case of the "Monster of Mendoza" gripped Argentina, when a 67-year-old man was accused of raping and fathering seven children with one of his three daughters. And last month, a 60-year old man in central Cordoba province was charged with having raped his daughter over a period of 20 years and fathered six children with her, including a girl – his own granddaughter – whom he was also raping.

The latest rape and incest case "is remarkable for the amount of violence and the length of time it lasted," but "in Reconquista (near Nicanor Molinas) and northern Santa Fe, sexual abuse within families is commonplace," said Judge Palud. He said in Vera, another city in Santa Fe, "they had to build a special prison wing to house sexual offenders."