Dungeon Children Speak In Animal Language
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The Independent:
Stefan Fritzl, 18, and his brother Felix, five, learned to talk by watching a television in the dungeon where they were held with their mother Elisabeth Fritzl, 42. But their form of communciation is only partly intelligible to Austrian police officers.
Police chief Leopold Etz, 50, who has met the two boys, said: “It is only half true that they can speak. They communicate with noises that are a mixture of growling and cooing.
“If they want to say something so others understand them as well they have to focus and really concentrate which seems to be extremely exhausting for them.
“Felix prefers to crawl but he can walk upright if he wants.”
Dr Berthold Kepplinger, who examined the brothers at a neuropsychiatric clinic near their home town of Amstetten, said: “They communicate between each other but this is far from a normal way of expressing oneself.
“Their mother taught them to read and write a bit but Elisabeth had lost much of her childhood knowledge after her imprisonment from the age of 18.
“They had no books and the main source of education was the television.”
When he was rescued Felix pointed to the moon, which he was seeing for the first time, and said: “Is that God up there?”
He then made excited gurgling noises when he saw a cow.
Doctors said that since he emerged from his prison he is constantly excited and keeps trying to hit the air with his hand.
When he saw the sun for the first time he was even more excited than when he discovered the moon.
He made a squeaking noise and tried to look directly at the sun. When he realised he couldn’t he kept covering his face with his hand.
When police took him in a lift at the hospital he was petrified and clung on to his mother as the floor moved.
Police said he was stunned when one officers started talking into a mobile phone.
Felix was also excited about the police officer’s mobile phones. He was stunned by the ring tones and even more when one of the policemen used his mobile phone to talk.
The youngster also often hums an unknown tune to himself which police believe his mother used to get him to sleep.
Stefan and Felix’s sister Kerstin, 19, became ill in the dungeon and is in a coma.
All three have weakened immune systems, are suffering from vitamin D deficiency and are anaemic.
None of them had ever been seen by a doctor or a dentist and Kerstin has already lost most of her teeth.
The low ceilings in their prison left them all with cramped physical posture.
Elisabeth has aged so much she looks like a sister to her mother Rosemarie, 68.
Austrian psychotherapist and university professor Rotraud Perner said: “A lot will depend on what the children have been told, whether the mother explained to them their life in captivity.
“They may have created their own illusory world. However, a normal life could be possible for them.”
The children will need to wear sun-block cream as their skin gets used to sunlight.
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Gee-zuss!
This just keeps getting better and better …
Right now some Hollywood scriptwriter is sweating over his computer and imagining who will play the starring role in this one …
I advise against Anthony Hopkins …
How about Nick Nolte?
April 30th, 2008 at 8:02 am“The children will need to wear sun-block cream as their skin gets used to sunlight.”
Well that was an important last sentence to this story.
Really sad and sick story.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:03 amWell I can hardly read this, but I sure can can pray that these kids some how manage to recover from this crime that has put them in this position.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:14 amWhy was there no mention of the pile of shit who held them captive?
April 30th, 2008 at 8:15 amDrill,
The fact the leeches in Hollywood or ANYWHERE would turn this into a movie says way too much about where our society is at, and none of it is good. I would hope that if this does get turned into one, ALL proceeds get donated to the mother and children, Lord knows, they will need them to get through life.
The monster (father) that did this really needs to serve time in a VN tiger cage…
April 30th, 2008 at 8:17 amI think this man should be put away for life in a similar dungeon.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:34 am
April 30th, 2008 at 8:37 amI think he should be castrated, beaten and left in a gutter in an Austrian ghetto.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:54 amunfortunatelly there are no ghettos in austria…one can have a prolonged fun with shooting off his limbs and patching him up and shooting him again, so fucker wont die too soon, and then hook his testicles to the car battery and let his grandchildren play with the new “button pushing toy” … sorry for such a graphic scene, but this kind of shit makes my blood boil..
April 30th, 2008 at 9:31 amIs this the same story where the father locked his daughter in a homemade dungeon for 24 years when she turned 18 so he could raper her over and over again? If it is, supposedly she had about 9 kids [from her own dad] and the father even killed one by starving it to death, and adopted 3 others as his own children.
But anyways I think the death penalty should be enacted in cases like this. The bastard should fry, simple enough.
April 30th, 2008 at 10:22 amThere have been other similar cases throughout history in the 19th and 20th centuries. None who lived past their teens before entering “normal” society ever really recovered (however you want to define that).
If nothing else, this speaks in powerful, ringing tones of the importance of nurture over nature. Like NOTHING else, nurture can make or break the child. And past the age of 6, a child’s character is essentially solidified for life. One’s experiences during the developmental years create neuro-pathways in the brain, establishing how one will analyze sensory data and manipulate it in the abstract.
This story is oddly similar to the Fundamentalist Mormon story here in the US. The lessons of these stories should be taken seriously in considering how one’s children should be raised - and how to avoid the self-loathing, sexually-confused, substance-abusing wrecks of humanity which litter our towns and cities like so much refuse.
April 30th, 2008 at 12:04 pmThe most amazing thing - well one of them- is the strength of Elisabeth to survive. I wonder how many times she considered killing herself and her children - somehow she had the strength I guess to hope that one day this would be over. We can’t even begin to imagine what she has been through and what she and her cellar children will continue to go through as they realise it is not normal for your father to also be your grandfather and so on. I am curious about who cared for the family while ‘he’ was on vacation enjoying the beach in Thailand (yeah right)- where there precautions in place or would they have simply starved to death downstairs if he had become ill or died? What about Elisabeth’s siblings? What are their thoughts/comments on all of this?
April 30th, 2008 at 1:07 pmThe lack of Vitamin D and sunlight means Rickets for these poor children.
If ever a man deserved to be skinned alive, it is this degenerate bastard.
April 30th, 2008 at 1:54 pmTied to a post in the center of town so the people can effect their judgment on him (no touching him for the first 8 years)
April 30th, 2008 at 10:46 pmApparently, the most he will serve in prison under Austrian law is 16 years. Are they serious?
May 1st, 2008 at 1:02 amall i feel is rage so terrible it makes me sick.
May 1st, 2008 at 1:06 amAll I have to say is that if he only gets 12 years in prision like it is being suggested, the law-makers in Austria deserve the same fate that I wish upon this bastard!
May 1st, 2008 at 6:11 am