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[filthyassistant]

Josef Fritzl : Fritzl's trial lasted four days"Austrian Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter in a cellar and fathered her seven children, has been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment

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[lconover]

I tend to agree with you... but, by US standards, four days is a veritable miracle of a short trial and sentencing. I imagine it'd have taken endless numbers of weeks here.

The crotch-target might be too good for someone like him.

I'm still in absolute shock and horror over the story of his daughter - the absolute and complete failure of basic human decency and morality in such a banal-seeming setting as a Austrian suburb. How does a human ever recover from that kind of abuse? How can those children ever become even vaguely normal after knowing that kind of environment? It haunts me as few news items ever do. And yet, despite that failure of basic human nature, he was caught as a direct result of seeking medical treatment for one of his children. How can someone be so unrepentant a monster, and yet, risk exposing their horrible secret?

I guess I should be thankful that I just am unable to understand how this could have happened.

[filthyassistant]

What you wouldn't see is a small booth set up nearby selling steel-toed boots on the sly.

Honestly? I think it was guilt that he'd let one child die in his care. Not that he was completely unrepentant, just that he had gotten tangled up so thoroughly in his web of lies that exposing any part exposes the whole. To be fair, if they have a system like ours finding a jury that wasn't all ready to string him up might have been the 4-day miracle.