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.
I would like any Austrian out there to please share their thoughts on what is going on in their country. This story has broken my heart, and dampened my soul. There has been 3 such cases in recent times: Elisabeth raped and locled up for 24 years, the other one was 8 years, and I heard of another educated woman (lawyer) who locke dup her 3 kids in a cellar.
Please i want to hear from any austrian out there. Do you all have this heart of perverts. Look at what you justice minister just said — 15-20 yrs are enough for JF. I read some where that a 55 yr old man that repeatedly raped a child got 10 months and walked free.
I have lost taste and any likeness for Austria. I do not even want to watch the Euro football any more. I am from Nigeria. We are poor and our politicians are rubbish, but we do not rape children. Shame on Austira. The country of perveters and Insestous people, and Child abusers.
Let’s pray for Elisabeth and her brave children.. and we don’t know maybe at this time there are people around the world still in suffer and facing bad situation. Hope God save and bless all of us. Big hugs for you, Elisabeth and your lovely kids…
the boy deserve the greatness and happiness the world can offer
I’m athiest and find it hard to believe anyone can still believe in an all-good, all-knowing and omnipotent “god” after reading about the Austrian House of Horrors. How could “god” allow such a thing to happen? Or is “he” not as good as you’d want to believe?
To the writer who condemns all of Austria for this crime, that’s a bit overblown. I’ve visited Austria several times, and can say unequivocally that Austria is one of the most beautiful, peaceful and civilized countries in the world. Condemming the entire country is like condemming the USA for the murders at Columbine or Virginia State or any one of thousands of other horrible crimes. As disgusting as Josef Fritzl is, don’t blame the entire country. Austrians are just as appalled as the rest of us!
To Elizabeth, welcome back. May you and your children live the rest of your lives in complete freedom, surrounded by beautiful gardens, listening to the sound of wind in the trees and all that the beauty of nature offers. Our thoughts are with you. You will never be in danger again.
Elisabeth is the strongest person I’ve ever known. Such faith, that one day they will once again walk the earth free. What a wonderful human being! I wish her and her children all the happiness possible for the rest of their days.
This story is so unique in so many ways. Good does seem to have won out over evil. Joseph Fritzl’s last photo of himself in police custody says it all. His face is mean, haggard, disappointed and depressed looking while his children are “chatty”, “awestruck” by simple things, and looking forward to a better life. It does prove beyond a doubt once again that “crime does not pay”. Joseph Fritzl will pay for his crimes a hundredfold. He is 73 and reportedly in excellent health for a man his age. I think he has much misery to look forward to in his future.
Is it true Elizabeth will be giving a televised interview next week? Oh my, I can’t wait and I hope we can see it here in America. I think about her every day, I want to read everything so I can know that they are alright.
I wish I could bring them to Orlando, so they can visit Disney World like Mickey suggested. They would love it, it’s such a magical and happy place!
i hope you elizabeth find that your nightmares turn into sunshine and light and your children have the glow of radiance as as you radiance and that you will know you have beaten the anxiety/torment of what you been through you would be welcome to lancashire anytime and i know you would love the lake district its peaceful and tranquil and the people would love you and your children as would as the rest of the lancashire people would love you for you are one in a million and i hope you like/love the world for it is a beautiful place and theres more good people out there than bad/evil your situation has touched everyone around the world,and you will pull through for your nightmare is over and your life can begin in daylight even when it turns dark the moon,the stars are stunning and pretty and i hope you will feel the same and when your lawyer sort out the media the best he can than you and your children will have your life back,all the best and blessings on you and your children elisabeth - michael/lancashire–united kingdom.
I would like to SALUTE elisabeth for her courage, dedication, love and attention for her children. Its already not easy being a single mom to one kid, let alone, giving birth to seven children, without medical help and aid in the small dungeon, I can’t imagine the ordeal and hardship, the pain and trauma she has to endure during her labour days.
Please also, let us SALUTE her children, whom might have assist her to giving birth to their brothers and and sisters particularly the 2 eldest child who have no choice but to see and help their mother giving birth to their siblings. I am so ashamed now if I ever said giving birth is a scary and painful experience. What is giving birth in the comfort of a bed, with professional help around us? Elisabeth has no anesthetics and nurses to hold her hand baby.
Lets give Elisabeth and her children an applause for her long suffering but she managed to stay positive, educate her children, show lots of caring and love to them, without losing her mind or attempted to kill herself and her children.
I believe she and her children will never forget the ordeal, but they will be able to pull through later as Elisabeth will be able to influence and guide her children out of their trauma.
if she can do it all these 24 years without seeing sunlight, I know she can do better with the sun shinning on her and her children.
May God bless you, Elisabeth. I Salute you.
I honestly think that your days are numbered Joseph Fritzl!
Gone are the vacations in Thailand and the respect you had as an autocrat and dictator.
Your mask is off and your ugly face revealed to the world!
It’s pay back time! The world is watching closely and will not let you off the hook that easily even if the authorities do.
You will have to hide yourself for the suffering you not only brought to your family but to us too the outsiders who have been deeply affected by this unbelievable story.
Your crocodile tears are nothing compared to Elizabeth’s helpless screams.
We don’t want to listen to you either. It’s Elizabeth who we will believe!
This story is so overwhelming! I have not been able to sleep thinking of this monsterous act by JF! I have full faith in Elezebeth who could keep her mind intact in spite of all the barbarism she and her children had to go through in that dungeon for years together. I still wonder how could JF keep this ghory secret from his wife? I am sure elezebeth must have tried her guts out to escape but all her trials were futile. This only goes to prove that Al this was done in cold bloodedness by JF -all planned for so many years. How could he see into his daughter’s eys every time he raped her! even hell will not be suitable for him. All the monsters will die of shame if they saw JF. He should be tortured to death slowly in a dungeon with no medical help.
HAve no further words for this monster who has put the most devine relationship of a father and daughter, to shame and speculation. He has gone against nature, for which he will have to pay every moment of his remaining life. I wish JF lives for long long years and undergoes torture every moment and dies millions of deaths in this life.
My prayers are with Elezebeth and her children - may God bless you all. I am sure they will grow up as normal and healthy citizens with the help of the entire planet.
Our best wishes from India. They could also come to India and especially Elezebeth could go through some meditation and yoga theraphy - which will help her emerge to be a stronger person
One more thing Josef Fritzel! - Do you at least now realise what harm and torture you have caused to your daughter? Any repent and shame? I am sure you would never realise it - if you could every single day, in those 24 years, wake up in the morning and face yourself and your family and were looking forward to repeat the same gruesome act - How could you ever be ashamed of youself??
You have put your family, your nation, the planet Earth and entire mankind and the whole Universe to SHAME.
Did you ever realise this???
Again all the prayers for Elezebeth and her children for a wonderful present and future.
god with you elizabeth. your story really touches my heart. my prayers to you elizabeth and your childern for peace future.