Josef Fritzl Has Set a Standard

which few can match, although judging from recent reports some have tried.

There is the case of a 63-year-old man and his son being charged with incest and abuse.

The older man has been identified as Michele Mongelli from Turin in a case which had been shrouded in mystery.

I am sorry for the bad pun, but I couldn't help it.

Anyway, Mongelli's actions and that of his son, Giuseppe, rival that of Fritzl's:

A FATHER who kept his daughter locked up in a darkened room for 25 years and raped her repeatedly has been arrested by Italian police.

The case has sent shock waves across the country and has already been dubbed by the media as Italy's "Josef Fritzl" case.

The 64-year-old father also "groomed" his son to sexually abuse the woman. The abuse started when the woman, now aged 34, was nine.

Prosecutors also claimed that scrap metal dealer Michele Mongelli encouraged his son, 41, to go on to abuse his own young daughters aged six, eight, 12 and 20.

Holy crap:

Listening devices had been placed in the handset of 64-year-old Michele Mongelli's telephone as part of the probe against him and his son Giuseppe, 41.
Officers heard the scrap metal dealer carry out the attack on his daughter, 34, after the handset had been misplaced. One investigator involved in the case said: "It was horrific."

Meanwhile specially trained psychologists were questioning the woman and her four nieces as they pieced together a shocking case of child sex abuse said to have been carried out by a father on his own daughter for 25 years.

Mr Mongelli is said to have raped his daughter and "groomed" his son Giuseppe to abuse not only his sister but also his own four children, aged between six and 20.
The two men were arrested last week in what has already been dubbed Italy's version of the Josef Fritzl case - the Austrian who was jailed for life earlier this month for enslaving and raping his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children.
There was shock in Turin that such a horrific case had gone unnoticed for so long - especially as the eldest victim, named as "Laura", had escaped from the room where she was being held in 1994 and told police she was being abused.

And it's not just an eastern hemisphere phenomenon, either.

Take--please--the case of Arcebio Alvarez, 58, of Colombia, who is charged with sexually abusing his daughter and fathering eight children with her:

A Colombian man has been accused of sexually abusing his daughter from a young age and fathering eight children with her in the latest of a series of incest cases that have appalled the world.

Arcebio Alvarez, 58, abused his daughter from the age of 10 after she was left alone in his care when her mother died, the 35-year-old woman has told police. He fathered three boys and five girls with her, aged from 1 to 19. All the children have been removed from the family home and are now in the care of the state.

Mr Alvarez denies the claims, saying the woman is not his biological daughter

Human depravity knows no bounds.

He's Simply Sorry He Got Caught

Josef Fritzl, languishing in a cell far more luxurious than the one he forced his daughter and her children to inhabit for decades, regrets treating his daughter like a sex slave and is thus guilty of what is arguably the worst kidnapping in the history of crime.

He's "remorseful," all right:

Rudolf Mayer, who specialises in defending those accused of the most severe offences, told an Austrian magazine about how his client - convicted of incarcerating and raping his daughter and murdering one of the seven children he fathered with her in an underground prison - was confronted with the horror of his crimes when his daughter Elisabeth, 42, unexpectedly appeared in the courtroom.

“When I heard my daughter speak I suddenly realised that I had been deceiving myself. The life in the dungeon was totally different than my vision of the reality there,” Fritzl told his lawyer, according to the Austrian magazine News. “I finally realised the unfathomable damage I had inflicted on my family.”

Read the bottom of the article. Some lawyer has decided to file suit against Fritzl's wife, Rosemarie, and his oldest son because this person claims these people had to have known something was wrong or they even participated in the wrongdoing.

It's grandstanding; there is NO evidence anybody other than Fritzl, his daughter, and her children knew anything was amiss.

Miscellaneous

Alaska's Mount Redoubt continues to erupt.

Redoubt began erupting last night, with the first explosion coming at 10:38 p.m. Sunday followed by another at 11:02 p.m., and a third at 12:14 a.m, the AVO reported.

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I think I am going to throw up.

This is sick, sick, sick.
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Speaking of sick, the Monster of Amstetten has finally been caged--for life:

Fritzl's trial last week can be summarised through numbers: 8,642 days his daughter spent underground, which breaks down to 207,408 hours; 3,000 rapes; seven incest children; one miscarriage; the 66 hours it took one newborn baby to die; 650 square feet of living space; six charges; eight jurors; and a 400-strong media pack to report to a world repelled yet fascinated by his crimes.

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As I was taking a hike around Virginia Lake and heading back towards home on Plumb Lane, I came upon somebody trying to escape Reno police, and I heard some shots. I turned around and was heading back before I realized the suspect was tasered. He was right on the street with the police "on top" of him while cars had to go around them so there wouldn't be a bunch of roadkill on the street. Then I turned around and proceeded to head back home. There were police cars coming from all over, and then later I saw an ambulance, so I don't know how the suspect made out although he appeared to be okay.

Anyway, that was enough damned excitement for one day.
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Speaking of police stories, some revelers made horses' asses out of themselves with a law enforcement officer and got arrested.
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The legislator who wanted expand legal prostitution in Nevada, Bob Coffin, now wants to impose a $5 surtax per john, per day.

Nevada needs to get rid of the legal whorehouses since they traffic in human beings and crack down on illegal prostitution as well. Human rights violations should NEVER have a government seal of approval.

Miscellaneous

Josef Fritzl may be glad the trial is over, but the rest of us, especially his family, are glad he is being locked away for the rest of his life.

The first thing that needs to be done is for officials to tear down the house where the atrocities took place.

Fritzl Trial

After admitting to everything he was accused of, Josef Fritzl has been sent to life in a psychiatric institution:

Josef Fritzl, the Austrian engineer who kept his daughter as a sex slave in a secret cellar underneath the family home for 24 years, will probably die behind bars, having been found guilty of a catalogue of crimes including the negligent murder of one of the seven children he fathered with his daughter.

The jury at St Pölten court sentenced him to life after finding him guilty on all counts – of negligent murder, enslavement, incest, rape, coercion and false imprisonment. He will serve his sentence in a psychiatric institution, his lawyer said.

Court authorities said that the life sentence would entail a minimum of 15 years in prison.

Fritzl accepted the verdicts and waived his right to appeal.

The homicide count of "murder by neglect" was the most serious of the charges against him, and the jury gave him the maximum punishment allowed by law.

The BBC is a day-by-day summary of the trial.

Here is some video.


At long last it was payback for what he did to his daughter and her children.

One thing about Austria, and that is at least there are speedy trials there, not trials that take a century as in this country, e.g. the O.J. Simpson murder trial.

Fritzl Case

After viewing his daughter's harrowing account of her 24 years of being imprisoned and raped, Josef Fritzl has decided to admit guilt to the circumstances surrounding the death of one of his children, and then throwing the corpse into an incinerator, in short, murder.

Details:

“I regret it,” the retired building engineer told Judge Andrea Humer. “Only yesterday did I realise how cruel I was to Elisabeth.” His daughter, now 42, was locked up for 24 years in an improvised dungeon in the family home, where she was raped up to 3,000 times and bore seven children – one of whom died soon after birth.

Fritzl’s words yesterday were as close to remorse as he has come. Only two days ago he was choking back tears in his opening courtroom testimony – but they were tears of self-pity as he spoke of his difficult childhood and his unloving mother.

Seeing Elisabeth, he told the judge, had made him think again. After watching 11 hours of her evidence on television, he was shattered and had sought out his assigned therapist, Pattrick Frottier, for counselling. It was then, he said, that he had decided to make a clean breast of matters.

Video report:

Miscellaneous/Weird/ Media Screwups [Update]

One cannot determine which is the greater scandal, that committed by AIG executives or Senator Grassley suggesting they either step down or commit suicide.
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People who have indoor cats can help them relieve the boredom of being stuck inside all day long.
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It appears the media can't get their collective stories straight about the condition of actress Natasha Richardson, who was critically injured in a skiing accident in Canada.

Some sites said she was dead, other sites said she was brain dead, still other sites reported she had been flown to another hospital, but most sites say she has traumatic brain injury.

If Richardson recovers, she won't be the first performer in history to have her death erroneously reported. Actress Barbara Weeks, who appeared in a number of films in the early 1930s before getting married and becoming a secretary in Las Vegas, is said to have had an obituary published in Variety, some 49 years before she actually died. She passed away in 2003 at the age of 89.

Update: Richardson has been moved to a NYC hospital, according to the New York Times. She is reported to be in serious condition.

The people, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters, declined to describe Ms. Richardson’s condition before or during the flight, other than to say it was very serious and that her family was highly distressed. They said the plane had arrived in New York by Tuesday evening, but declined to say where Ms. Richardson was being treated.

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A web site is seeking donations in an attempt to get O.J. out of prison.

Lots of luck with that.

The latest issue of the National Enquirer (page 5) has an article about O.J.'s rather bleak life at the Lovelock Correctional Center, about 90 miles northeast of Reno, Nevada. He's dropped 20 pounds, he's segregated from the rest of the prison population because of his notoriety, he spends 23 hours a day in his jail cell, he's had at least four death threats made against him, and, worst of all, his prison food isn't up to his previous gourmet standards.
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The Fritzl trial went through another day, and the defendant was described as an emotional "volcano."

Elisabeth's video testimony describes how the absolute horror and depravity of her father and was summarized in the indictment:

The indictment states: "He chained his daughter up, strapping up her arms and tying her hands behind her back with an iron chain, which he then secured to metal posts behind her bed. She could only move approximately half a metre either side of the bed."

After two days he gave her more freedom of movement by attaching the chain around her waist. Then around six to nine months into her imprisonment, he "removed the metal chain", because "it was hindering his sexual activity with his daughter".

He forced her to endure sexual abuse and rape at his hands sometimes several times a day, from the second day of her incarceration right up until her release last April. During the first nine months he kept her on a lead and "constantly covered her mouth and prevented her from breathing".

He repeatedly threatened her with the statement: "If you do not do as I say, your treatment will get worse and you will not escape from the cellar anyway."

The indictment states how he repeatedly beat and kicked her. He also subjected her to humiliating sexual abuse, including forcing her to reenact scenes in pornographic films with him as well as inserting objects into her in a violent manner. The abuse left her with serious lasting physical injuries and did huge damage to her mental state. The indictment details how she gave birth to seven children in the cellar without any medical help.

If there was ever a case for the death penalty, this is it.

In any case, he is on suicide watch.

Video clip from CNN:



Part 1 of a documentary about the case via YouTube:



link

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To the troll who keeps leaving messages on my blog: You don't seem to understand your comments go unread and into the garbage. You need to get a life.
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Miscellaneous/Weird

It looks as if there is no hope for me whatsoever.
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Dick Cheney is very upset Obama has decided to use government money to help people instead of spending it on cronies, the military, and disastrous neocon foreign policy adventures.
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Nevada is number 1 in something it has no reason to be proud.
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The Fritzl trial began, and the sicko admitted to raping his daughter but denied he killed one of his children by her.

Miscellaneous News

Add murder to the charges against that piece of filth Josef Fritzl.

Prosecutors say he is responsible for the child's death as he failed to get proper medical attention when it fell ill shortly after birth.

Fritzl imprisoned his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children by her.

The state attorney's office says it has charged suspect him with homicide because the child died in infancy. Prosecutors say experts believe the infant might have survived if Fritzl had arranged for proper medical care.

The child was eventually burnt in an incinerator.

The 73-year-old retired electrician has also been charged with rape, incest, false imprisonment and slavery and his trial is expected to begin early in 2009.

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Prop 8 opponents continue on their self-destructive, McCarthyist course, and shoot themselves in the ass.

When a tiny, yet loudmouthed, minority as the LGBT lobby tries these tactics, they simply invite hostility and a furious backlash. They forget just how tiny a minority they are nationally.
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Miscellaneous News

Josef Fritzl will likely face manslaughter charges.

More Miscellaneous News

I'm dysfunctional, you're dysfunctional: 1960s rock relic Donovan Leitch's family life was a mess, to say the least, but one of his daughters has helped to put the family back together.
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I am not surprised if the children do not testify in the Fritzl case.
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This innocuous YouTube video is at the heart of a copyright lawsuit.

A violation of copyright is just stupid here. One can barely hear the music.
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Things are pretty dire in this neck of the Woods.

Ronnie is supposedly in love with a 20-year-old cocktail waitress. He is a mere 61 years old:

"You never think you are going to lose your gorgeous girlfriend to a wrinkly old man – but that's exactly what happened." Ekaterina Ivanova's boyfriend Chris Kiely, 26, last week.

According to this article, she is a mere 18, and judging from the looks of the picture, doesn't look a day over 13.

She is not to be confused with the tennis player of the same name.

Don't tell me for one minute the money isn't a factor. It sure as hell isn't his looks or his personality.

Once again another high-profile wife has been humiliated.

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Fritzl.

For the first time, Elisabeth Fritzl has been interviewed, and she was interviewed at a secret location.

More is here. The children have been returning to normal life thanks to a team of doctors.

Still More Miscellaneous News

Josef Fritzl may get as little as ten years for committing his atrocities against his daughter and her children.

Unreal.

Well, Joe, how does it feel to be in the same position as your daughter and three of her children?

I don't think officials are going to be too sympathetic.
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Neither is Congress now that Karl Rove has ignored a subpoena to appear before it regarding the Siegelman prosecution. Former Alabama governor Don Siegelman is certainly a political prisoner if there ever was one. Citing "executive privilege" is certainly a stretch.

As far as I'm concerned, Rove's ignoring the subpoena is as good as admitting guilt.
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Miscellaneous News [Updated]

A car crash turned a dog owners' reunion into a tragedy when two people died. Two of the dogs were injured, and one is still missing.
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Josef Fritzl wants to sell his life story to any fool willing to buy it.
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Little "Mitch" of the filthy blog The Mitch and Nan Show" wussed out of a radio appearance on the Roger Fredinburg program, which gives Larry Sinclair even more credibility.

Edit: The phony bloggers did finally show their useless, lying asses on the program.
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More Miscellaneous News.

Some dumb shits are vying for the Darwin Awards by trying to climb the "nose" of El Capitan in the fastest time.

They aren't alone; my landlord tried to enter the Darwin Awards contest almost two years ago in this hair-raising ride to and from Yosemite that I recounted in excruciating detail on the blog.
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The haze may leave town today.
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O.J. Simpson continues to walk around with a prosecution complex.
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A CBS reporter covered Iraq by day and was covered by night:

Passions got so hot in the combat zone that one of her lovers, Joe Burkett, brawled in a Baghdad "safe house" with her other paramour, CNN war reporter Michael Ware, a source said.

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Thank God we have the likelihood of a Fritzl trial to keep us occupied instead of the disaster of the upcoming general election campaign.

Miscellaneous News.

Larry Sinclair gives his account of the events following his arrest after giving his press conference.

James Manning, who was at Sinclair's press conference last week, wants us to pray for him and looks at those sex-and-drug allegations:



Whether or not Sinclair's allegations against Obama have any merit is almost beside the point. The events surrounding his arrest and incarceration DO have merit, and some people are going to be in deep, deep, deep legal shit over this stunt if Sinclair has decent enough legal representation.

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War threats against Iran are overshadowing the American elections according to WSWS.
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A dog missing for 17 days ended up being a wedding crasher.
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Kerstin Fritzl is too ill to testify against her shitbag father/grandfather.

Fritzl.

Josef Fritzl will see his family for the first time since his arrest, but it won't be in person.

Fritzl.

Fritzl's custody has been extended.

Fritzl.

Thanks to a heart condition, heartless pervert Josef Fritzl could die before ever standing trial.

Fritzl.

I am not surprised by this. Ted Bundy received love letters while he was in prison. Charles Manson received letters from deranged people willing to "off" people for him.