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This guy will scare you from Austria forever
Published 5/7/2008 by The Beautiful Game at The Beautiful Game
As if the picture wasn't creepy enough... This 73-year-old guy, Josef Fritzl, imprisoned his 18-year-old daughter in the basement back in 1984 and fathered seven children with her. Ugh. Police just recently freed her, now in her 40s, and the kids from the basement. And I wish that was all. Fritzl had a previous rape conviction, once forced a prostitute into the dungeon with him and claimed his daughter was part of a religious cult -- which makes it all okay. The rest of family had always believed the girl had run away. So horrific is this story, that Austrian government officials fear this monster might scare people from coming ...

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Published 5/7/2008 at With Leather - Sports news and gossip for your impressionable young children
As soccer's European Championship approaches, host country Austria is suddenly worried about its image in the international spotlight.  Why's that?  Well, something about a man locking his daughter in a dungeon for 24 years and repeatedly raping her, producing seven children along the way, maaaaaay have something to do with it.  Hold onto your breakfasts, kiddies: The Austrian father who imprisoned and repeatedly raped his daughter over a 24-year period planned the improvised dungeon six years before taking her hostage, police said Monday. Josef Fritzl, 73, imprisoned Elisabeth in the cellar in 1984, when she was aged 18, but police revealed ...