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An Austrian man who held his daughter captive for 24 years and fathered seven children with her had planned the construction of her basement prison years in advance, police said on Monday. Elisabeth Fritzl, 42, was kept prisoner in a windowless dungeon under the family home, whose original part was built in the late 19th century while an extension was finished in 1983.
Elisabeth, who says her father abused her from when she was 11 years old, says she was drugged by him and locked up in the basement when she was 18. When her father submitted the plans for the extension of the family home to authorities some 30 years ago, she was around 12 years old.
Muck;1157328; said:So they're just like American kids?
Throw in some video game addiction and I'd count the lack of sunlight as normal too.
Taosman;1157334; said:australia's policy on the death penalty
Officially, Australia has a long-standing principled opposition to capital punishment. The death penalty has been abolished in Australia. Australia has signed the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which commits Australia to the abolition of the death penalty. Australia voted for the UN General Assembly's resolution calling for a global moratorium on the death penalty (18 December 2007). Australia annually co-sponsors a resolution of the UN Human Rights Commission that calls for all nations to abolish the death penalty, e.g. The Question of the Death Penalty (20 April 2005) UN Doc E/CN.4/RES/2005/59.
However, over the last few years Australian politicians, both government and opposition, have weakened this stance. Australia's position now seems to be that Australians should not be executed but other people can be. It remains to be seen whether the Rudd government will return to Australia's principled opposition.
Australia's Position on the Death Penalty
Taosman;1157334; said:australia's policy on the death penalty
Officially, Australia has a long-standing principled opposition to capital punishment. The death penalty has been abolished in Australia. Australia has signed the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which commits Australia to the abolition of the death penalty. Australia voted for the UN General Assembly's resolution calling for a global moratorium on the death penalty (18 December 2007). Australia annually co-sponsors a resolution of the UN Human Rights Commission that calls for all nations to abolish the death penalty, e.g. The Question of the Death Penalty (20 April 2005) UN Doc E/CN.4/RES/2005/59.
However, over the last few years Australian politicians, both government and opposition, have weakened this stance. Australia's position now seems to be that Australians should not be executed but other people can be. It remains to be seen whether the Rudd government will return to Australia's principled opposition.
Australia's Position on the Death Penalty

Taosman;1157334; said:australia's policy on the death penalty
Officially, Australia has a long-standing principled opposition to capital punishment. The death penalty has been abolished in Australia. Australia has signed the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which commits Australia to the abolition of the death penalty. Australia voted for the UN General Assembly's resolution calling for a global moratorium on the death penalty (18 December 2007). Australia annually co-sponsors a resolution of the UN Human Rights Commission that calls for all nations to abolish the death penalty, e.g. The Question of the Death Penalty (20 April 2005) UN Doc E/CN.4/RES/2005/59.
However, over the last few years Australian politicians, both government and opposition, have weakened this stance. Australia's position now seems to be that Australians should not be executed but other people can be. It remains to be seen whether the Rudd government will return to Australia's principled opposition.
Australia's Position on the Death Penalty
Jimmy Carter;1157339; said:Uhhh, this is Austria nimrod.

Investigators said a total of eight doors fitted with sophisticated locks and electronics secured the underground warren of windowless rooms where they say Josef Fritzl held his daughter captive for two dozen years.
"This was not built from one day to the next," said police Col. Franz Polzer, who is overseeing the investigation into a case that has stunned Austria and the world.
He said the main door weighed about 500 kilograms (half a ton).
Polzer said an investigation showed that the apartment complex owned by Fritzl originally was built in 1890, and that he applied for permits to expand it in 1978. He said police believe the plans for that expansion included the secret rooms because adding them later would have been far more difficult and expensive.
"I believe that the trigger was a mental disorder, because I can't imagine that someone has sex with his own daughter without having a mental disorder," Mayer said.
Jimmy Carter;1157339; said:Uhhh, this is Austria nimrod.
