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Josef Fritzl: I was born to rape
By BRIAN FLYNN
Published: Today
CELLAR monster Josef Fritzl laid bare his soul to a woman psychiatrist, just like the movie Silence of the Lambs — and chillingly confessed: “I was born to rape.”
Incest dad Fritzl, who caged daughter Elisabeth underground for 24 years and raped her, opened up to Dr Adelheid Kastner in intense one-on-one sessions.
He calmly answered her questions during a series of cat-and-mouse chats reminiscent of Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins in the 1991 Hannibal Lecter thriller.
Dr Kastner, 46, was called in by an Austrian court to unravel Fritzl’s twisted mind.
She questioned the 73-year-old for hours — and her report concludes he is too dangerous ever to be freed.
Dr Kastner believes Fritzl’s childhood with a dominant, sadistic mother who raised him without love and the lack of a father figure helped turn him into a twisted control freak.
Evil
He had early psychological problems and as a teenager attacked a girl in a park.
He told the psychiatrist: “I was born to be a rapist. I simply have an evil streak.”
In her report, Dr Kastner writes: “Mr Fritzl was born a disadvantaged child, which will have consequences for his entire life.
“He had to suffer a mother who demotivated him, denigrated him and was prone to violence.
“It was a childhood that left him emotionally crippled.”
Fritzl described being taken into bunkers by neighbours during World War Two bombing raids because his mother refused to go.
He was terrified that he would emerge to find her dead.
Dr Kastner concludes he cannot empathise with others — and has a need to dominate women.
He developed a craving to “own a person”.
Sickeningly, he chose his own daughter Elisabeth as his sex slave victim, forcing her to have his children.
Fritzl locked her behind a steel door beneath their home in Amstetten.
She brought up three of their children there, while he took three others to raise with wife Rosemarie, telling her Elisabeth had run away and abandoned them.
Children Kerstin, 19, Stefan, 18, and Felix, five, never saw daylight until they were rescued in April.
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A seventh baby died and was incinerated by Fritzl.
Incredibly, he boasted that he could have done much worse to his daughter — but held back because part of him was GOOD.
He told the psychiatrist he locked Elisabeth up to protect her from drug abuse and really believed that she and her children had a good life in the cellar.
Fritzl said: “I gave them school equipment to study with. I gave them toys and I even gave them pets to play with.”
He remains convinced he will be freed.
Dr Kastner, who has grilled more than 500 killers and sex offenders, insisted no one else was present when she met Fritzl.
She said: “I don’t believe a person can be evil from scratch.”
But she concludes Fritzl knew he was doing wrong and is sane enough to be tried.
Her report will go before a trial judge in St Poelten, Austria, at the end of the year.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1845104.ece
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