Austrian Faces Trial in Case of Imprisoned Daughter

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AMSTETTEN, Austria - For almost a quarter of a century, Josef Fritzl allegedly held his daughter as a sex slave in a cramped, rat- infested cellar where he fathered seven children with her.

This week, the notorious Austrian with icy blue eyes faces justice in what is being billed locally as the "trial of the century." The question is what justice will mean in the case of a 73- year-old who has confessed to imprisoning and repeatedly raping his daughter, Elisabeth, for 24 years in a windowless dungeon he built beneath the family's home.

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Austrian Faces Trial in Case of Imprisoned Daughter

Fritzl "should definitely get put away for life," said Christian Edlinger, 18, smoking with friends outside the now-infamous Fritzl residence in Amstetten. "I can't believe I rode my moped past this house so many times without ever suspecting a thing."

Prosecutors have charged Fritzl with ...

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