Read the whole story here- http://news.aol.com/article/austria-incest-case/382578
ST. POELTEN, Austria (March 18) – In a stunning turn of events, an Austrian on trial for imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children pleaded guilty Wednesday to all charges against him — including negligent homicide — after hearing his daughter’s heart-wrenching testimony.
Saying he had a change of heart, Josef Fritzl calmly acknowledged his guilt on the third day of a trial that has drawn media attention from around the world for its shocking allegations.
"I declare myself guilty to the charges in the indictment," Fritzl, 73, told a panel of judges, referring at one point to what he called "my sick behavior."
Fritzl faces up to life imprisonment on the negligent homicide count, which he initially had contested along with an enslavement charge. Prosecutors also had charged him with rape, incest, forced imprisonment and coercion.
A psychiatrist, meanwhile, told the court Wednesday that Fritzl had a very serious personality disorder and would still pose a threat even at his advanced age if freed. Psychiatrist Adelheid Kastner recommended that Fritzl serve out his sentence in a psychiatric ward.
Asked by the presiding judge what had led him to change his mind, Fritzl said it was the videotaped testimony from his daughter Elisabeth that he, jurors and the rest of the court had viewed during a closed-door session Tuesday.
Elisabeth is the prosecution’s key witness against Fritzl. Now 42, she was 18 when he imprisoned her in the cramped, windowless cell he built beneath the family’s home in the town of Amstetten.
There isn’t a level of hell low enough for this piece of human garbage.
I wonder when if ever, some well known porn chick’s fathers will also face trial for the things they did to their daughters growing up.
There’s a special place in hell for a person like Josef Fritzl.