5-year-old son of Josef Fritzl: “the world is so nice”
by admin May 2nd, 2008 in Crime
According to Austrias biggest newspaper “Kronen Zeitung”, the 5-year-old son of Josef Fritzl Felix, was very excited about his first time in a car when he was released from his prison in the cellar, and brought to his new home with the other family members.
For you and me it’s nothing special to go to work everyday, see the nature, houses, and other people walking through the streets.
For 5-year-old Felix it was the very first time. The little boy was born in the dungeon of Amstetten, and had to stay there his first 5 years. He knew the world outside his dungeon only from television.
According to the “Kronen Zeitung”, he was watching out of the car window the whole way through with open mouth. To a policeman he said: “the world is so nice”.
It’s difficult not to be touched by such a story.
yes hope they will be better soon .
Lan
I will be so happy when I hear that he is playing at the playground ,running around and ridding his bicycle just like other children.
It really touches my heart to hear such a response from that little boy. I pray to God that when he gets older and really understand what happend, he doesn’t become a monster like his grandfather or father or whatever or whoever he is…
why is it that there are parents who are good enough to be parents.why there fathers who eat their own daugther?why there are mothers who never talk and just pretend they know nothing at all.what will be the future of elizabeth children?i hope to see them recover and live a happy peaceful and normal life.
this is such a very unforgettable experience that had been happened to elizbeth fritzl, as we all know now, that she is now 42 yrs old and have been pregnant by his own father, that is so horrible things to happen on one such family affair…it so a shame for their family reputation ., but she should be strong enough after all now that she is old , she should face it now… have faith in God…and she should raise her children in a good background
i am wondering why elizabeth did not make a way to escape the cellar after all the truth will always prevail…
I am so distraught by this I haven’t been able to sleep. I wish there
was something I could do for these children and their mother. It is beyond
the imagination how they survived in that situation for so long, I am bewildered.
I have young children and the thought of anything like this happening is staggering.
What can we say except to pray for some joy to instill the lives of these children and their mother. I shed tears for them but wish in my heart they can somehow recover something of their lives.
They must investigate the wife further. There is NO WAY she did not know and being in denial is NO excuse! You cannot have a man who’s supporting a whole family just steps away and not know. Groceries bought, clothes bought. What did she think happened to these items when they disappeared? Was this woman totally clueless? Not for one second do I think she didn’t know. And if the children do well and I hope to God they do, they must pursue the wife’s role in this horrific crime.
they are in my prayers. i wish if we could turn back the clock and undo all that has happened.
I want to add…to me this crime is worse than murder when one thinks about the extent of torture and trauma on the victims. This evil monster and his equally evil wife should be wiped off the face of the earth NOW! I read a murderer only gets 15 years in Austria? What is wrong with your system? Like this case, this fact is beyond belief.
I hope the best for Elizabeth and her children. I wish that she did run away in the beginning. I am going to pray for her 19 year old daughter to get well. Eats lots of chocolate and fall in love, Elizabeth. Let your children grow and learn.
Don’t let any one talk nonsense to you again. It is your life, protect your children. Sorry for the loss of your one baby.
Horror! But the society must be revisited too. People must learn to interact and be more open. Closed society give chance to evils.
Elizabeth keep your faith and determination and God will be of help.
i hope yours family find a happiness you are all welcome……remember their always hope at the end
The horrific ordeal elizabeth and her children went through is unimaginable. This monster should be locked up in solitary confinement and tortured in some ways daily. But that’s just my vengeful mind talking. What his victims need is the justice in knowing he that he no longer walks the earth. The death penalty was created for monster such as this. I do believe that the overwhelming love and care these victims will receive in the up coming months and years will help them over-come the horror they endured for many years. Light and love can over-power evil and darkness anyday. I will follow the story to help when I can and to ensure this does happen.
Elizabath, I wish everything will be fine from now onwards. I felt very bad and said when first hear the news. OH! what a father. Eliz, Keep your faith , Don’t be afraid now, We are there with you
so sad about the terrible ordeal .commited by that monster
My pray is with you, Elizabeth, and your children.
How can those of us in the US that want to help this family, do so? We understand they are in a secured location but is there a way for those of us who want to help (money, clothes, toys, cards, etc.) to do so?? My prayers are with you Elisabeth and your children. You are a strong woman - God Bless You!!
Thank you Elizabeth for your dedication to your children, for your strength, love and compassion for them. You are my hero and this Mother’s Day here in America, Sunday the 11th, my family and I will toast you. You are the very true definition of what the word “mother” truly means!
I will forever keep you and your children in my prayers!
Good will reign over evil…never take laughing, healthy, running, noisy and jumping children for granted. To most of us it is normal - and now again we realise that it is such a gift to be normal.
No money can buy back time lost. Let alone all the facets of the abuses.
Let’s look out for the children around us where we live. Be accused of being ‘a busy-body’ or ‘nosey’ rather than have another horrific situation anywhere in the world again like this ever happening again! We are only children for 216 months! It is too special to have it made abnormal.
Austria’s government needs to seriously review their laws get very busy now and do a search of post-war bunkers!
when i heard about this news i was so sick to my stomach! I can’t imagine such teririble thing can really happen. I was so touch that I was crying while watching that news. That monster should not be allowed to get out of prison ever! Elizabeth and her kids will always be in my prayers.
Glad Elizabeht thought their children about God and heaven. Their faith let them out. They will be always in my prayers.
To think, there are probably countless people being held prisoner in other dungeons by evil Pedeophiles… Does anyone think it is possible for the children to recover at all from their ordeal… Their genes are obviously messed up, thus they will probably suffer health problems for the rest of their lives. And to think the father/grandfather will receive medical care in prison…I am soo disturbed by this story.. My kids go to religious school, but at the moment I am soooo mad at God because of Elizabeth’s suffering. I feel as if she is related to everyone on this planet, and the world should be thinking and praying for her at all times…..I wish I could hug her, and tell her she will no longer have to suffer alone….Please do not think me strange, but I have ben crying fits thinking of her locked away for sooo long.. Especially in the beginning, when she was 18 and all alone, chained and left in the dark for years…
I happy to hear so many voices against what happen to this woman. When I first heard it it bugged me for days - cause when she was put into that prison - was a year before I was born. So for so much time to be taken away from her really hurts me. As a young person - I can’t imagine so much time begin taken away from me.
My only hope is that she recovers what is let of her life and to her mother I say shame on you. How could not feel that you daughter was in so much danger. Shame on you - for not being a better parent and for that monster. Pray he gets the deanth penalty - but I doubt that exist in Austria - so I hope the devil waits for him in hell.
If someone from Disney is reading this, please extend an invitation to this boy and his sibling to come to America and see Disney World. We as a world, need to make it up to them, for the youth they lost, for the years of only sitting in a dark smelly dungeon. This entire story has been so upsetting. This is all my friends and I can talk about. What a horrible place Austria must be to live if they produce men like Fritzl! I for one, will never visit that horrible country!
I am sorry to hear about. Since this news came out, all I am doing is reading about it. My heart aches to even imagine me in a dungeon for a day, but for 24 years??
Why? How was she cooperating with that man, I think at one point of time, she would have accepted her life that way because of her loneliness and for he Children’s sake, she had to be strong. He even has mentioned that he brought flowers for her and toys and books for the kids….has he forgotten that she was his daughter and of all people in the world that she could be safe with? When I see things like this happen, it shows that the world has come to an end. Thats what happened during the old Testament time, God has continuous destroyed the world due to their corruption.
Our prayers are with you. God made a way to escape through your daughter and I pray that she would recover to witness this beautiful world around her.
My question is what kind of sickness may develop the sons of the incest.
Can you imagine how the will grow up? I hope they embrace a strong religion because having a faith can help you overcome that kind of monstrosity.
Must be very hard to be the son and to live with the shadow of such father
(There is danger the sons will do the same thing in the future)
I think most of the judges in Austria were used to the horrors of the war and holocausts so they see child raping as a very light sin. Shame of you
Herr Fritzl must never be allowed to see the light of day ever again and may his soul rot in hell.
Elizabeth Fritzl and her father Joseph Fritzel represent the two extremes in human nature. While Joseph Firtzl represents mankind’s lust for forebidden sexual pleasure, Elizabeth is an epitome of mother love. She endured all those ordeals at the hand of a ferocious cruel father, all for the sake of her own children. Even when she was pushed beyond the level of human tolerance, she might have dreamt of a bright future for her kids. When once asked Nancy Reagan, the wife of former US presdient Ronald Reagan, how she endured the long ordeal of her husaband’s bout with Alsheimer’s, she said: “Woman is like a tea bag. The real substance comes out only when she is put in hot water”. How true it is! Elizabeth has become a symbol of the most powerful of all human relationship on Earth: The unflinching love of a mother. Even when she was robbed of her childhood and womanhood by a sexually perverted monster father, how she survived for so long without falling apart is still a mystery. Today, she lives in the hearts and minds of people all over the world. She is a living saint. This unsung Austrian heroine from Amstettin reminds us how fleeting is our worries and sorrows, when compared with the long ordeal of her enslavement in a dungeon, deep beneath her own home. May she be able to cheerfully spend the rest of her life while her tormenter get withered in the cell.
Back in 1984 I just bought my first new car and started nursing school. I am just sick to think at the same time in a small Austrian town this was happening to Elisabeth. I pray she’ll feel joy again.
Oh, and a Very Happy Mother’s Day to Elisabeth.