After fifteen years, anyone sentenced to life in prison is eligible for conditional parole under Austrian law. A court may now determine whether to transfer Fritzl from the high-security unit where he is being held to a regular prison, but his attorney wants him to be released from jail entirely.
Josef Fritzl, an Austrian sex offender who fathered seven children with his daughter while holding her captive for twenty-four years, is seeking his release from prison, according to his attorney.
Astrid Wagner expressed her desire to place him in a nursing facility.
Fritzl, aged 88, was sentenced to life in prison in 2009 for neglecting to death one of his children, in addition to raping, incestuously consuming, and enslaving his daughter.
Who is Josef Fritzl?
A fresh ORF psychological evaluation says dementia-afflicted Fritzl is no longer a public concern. As a result, a court may now consider transferring him to a standard prison.
However, according to his attorney, he ought to be released from prison, and she is currently drafting an application for his conditional discharge.
In 2008, 42-year-old Elizabeth Fritzl told authorities her tyrannical father had held her captive for years.
At 18, he lured Elisabeth into the Amstetten family crypt in 1984 and lied to everyone. Including his spouse, that she had escaped and become a member of a cult.
Since the age of eleven, he had been subjecting her to sexual abuse.
His transgressions were only exposed when one of his children born to her developed a critical illness.
Following Fritzl’s transportation to the hospital, the authorities pleaded for Elizabeth to come forward.
Legal Plea for Dignified Treatment
The police were notified of Elisabeth’s reappearance after Fritzl liberated her from the dungeon. She disclosed that she had been held captive for over two decades.
On Monday, Ms. Wagner stated to ORF that her client “has a right to be treated with human dignity,” adding that this “is only possible in a nursing home and not a prison.”
She said his physical and mental decline caused “distortions of reality” notwithstanding his “not severely demented” status.
Ms. Wagner expressed her conviction that Fritzl experienced “honest, genuine, profound remorse” because he “damaged his exquisite existence by committing an act against his family.”
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Fritzl is being detained in Stein Prison’s high-security unit for mentally disturbed offenders in Krems, northeast Austria.
Life-sentenced individuals are eligible for conditional release under Austrian law 15 years after their date of arrest; Fritzl, who was apprehended in 2008, attained that age in 2023.
Fritzl said in a 2023 interview that his family will “forgive” and “reunite” with him despite his mistakes.
He told The Sun that he followed the coronation on television and admired King Charles.
