Fritzl.

I'll tell you this: Austrian officials better not allow this monster to escape a prison sentence by claiming insanity. The alternative proposed is for him to serve his time in a nuthouse, to put it somewhat ungracefully:

Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who fathered seven children with his daughter while keeping her locked up in a subterranean dungeon as a sex slave for 24 years, will plead insanity to avoid a prison sentence.

Lawyers for Fritzl, 73, dubbed the Incest Monster by local media will argue that he was not responsible for his actions and will try to acquire a certificate of insanity for their client.

Rudolf Mayer, a prominent Vienna lawyer who represents Fritzl, said: “In my personal opinion, Josef Fritzl is mentally ill and therefore not responsible for his actions. I believe that my client does not belong in a prison but rather in a closed psychiatry ward."

I don't think this is going to work.

The plea isn't the worst of it, either. The rest of the Fritzl family could well be out on the street thanks to him:

Meanwhile, it emerged that Fritzl, a retired engineer and real estate developer who was joggling with millions in numerous property deals, was financially ruined, with debts amounting to millions of pounds.

It also emerged that Fritzl’s wife Rosemarie, and well as his abused daughter Elisabeth and her six children, could end up on the street as there is a mortgage on the Fritzl family house in 40 Ybbsstrasse in Amstetten. Fritzl lived in the house with his wife and three of his children by his daughter Elisabeth – Lisa, 15, Monika, 14 and Alexander, 12 – while the other three children, Kerstin, 19, Stefan, 18, and Felix, 5, were forced to dwell together with their mother in a concrete dungeon in the cellar.

A local bank has already requested the immediate return of a loan of over one million euros that Josef Fritzl took out for property investments. In addition, authorities investigating his financial affairs have so far found mortgages amounting to 2.2 million euros.

On top of the horrors of abuse and deprivation, as well as the humiliation in the local media where they are known as the Incest Family, the Fritzls are now facing financial ruin because of their father and husband’s debts, as well as the high costs of the long-term therapy that are expected to exceed the million Euro mark.

The family should NOT have to suffer--AGAIN--because of his misdeeds.