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Woman in Austria cellar incest case rejoins family
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-06-11 23:32 Fan of Robbit Williams After coming out of the medically-induced coma, Kerstin said she wanted most of all to go on a cruise and attend a concert by British pop star Robbie Williams, doctors said. "When she was still in bed attached to tubes, she listened to Robbie Williams until 3 a.m., until I had to put a bit of a dampener on it," said Reiter. "But that was the point in time where I said we should go ahead with steps to get her mobile." "The entire family is very happy that they are all together for the first time," said their lawyer, Christoph Herbst. Three of the seven children of the incestuous liaison, the youngest of whom is now aged five, were incarcerated with their mother, while another three were raised by Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie as their own. One child died shortly after birth. Prosecutors are investigating Fritzl for coercion, rape, incest and the death of the baby, though he has not been charged. Police say he has admitted incarceration and incest. Rosemarie is not under suspicion and is with the rest of the family at the residence on the hospital grounds in Amstetten. The cellar victims are receiving further daily therapy there as well as schooling and other guidance to start preparing them for life in the outside world. Kepplinger said Kerstin's immune system still had to bolstered with belated vaccines already administered to other family members kept underground for over two decades. Herbst said Elisabeth did not plan to discuss the case in public and urged a curious international media to let the family build a normal life in privacy. |
