Cellar monster Josef Fritzl will get an extra hour in bed and a meal of roast chicken and rice on Christmas Day while his daughter celebrates with her mother and six incest children 150 miles away.
Elisabeth Fritzl, 44, has invited her mother Rosemarie to her home in a small village for the festivities at the end of a year in which her tormentor contacted her over 20 times by letter.
He also tried telephoning but the prison put a block on him making contact with her.
Elisabeth, who was held in a secret dungeon be her deranged father beneath the family home for 24 years to be raped an estimated 3,000 times by him, has instructed the psychiatric prison at Stein where he is held to block all further letters to her.
In 2010 Elisabeth passed her driving test, saw her children slowly recover from their psychiatric scars left by their cellar ordeal and has slowly patched things up with her mother.
Rosemarie, in the process of divorcing 75-year-old Fritzl as he serves out his life sentence for rape, enslavement and negligent homicide - the result of the death of one of the seven children Elisabeth bore him in the cellar - is a sad figure who lives on minimal social security payments in a threadbare bedsit.
Elisabeth was estranged from her after she was freed from the dungeon in April 2008 because she learned of her father‘s rapist past.
Rosemarie, 70, took him back into the family home after he served a prison term - a move that allowed him to plot and built the cellar lair beneath his house in the Austrian town of Amstetten.
But she has slowly learned to forgive her, telling friends and carers that “she is as much a victim as everyone else in this tale.“
Fritzl, who is showing the early signs of dementia in prison, sent letters to Elisabeth earlier this year asking her to provide money for him to study law in jail with a view to him getting a re-trial.
He also asked his sister-in-law to tell him he still loved his wife and that he dreamed of joining her on the outside one day. But to his family he is dead in all but name: no-one has been to visit him in jail since he was sentenced but his lawyer and one German journalist.
On Christmas Eve he will be fed with fish and potato salad and allowed to watch TV in the afternoon. He will also be permitted to attend a special church service for prisoners in the jail church attended by a visiting bishop.
He gets an extra hour‘s lie-in on Christmas morning to 8.00am followed by a breakfast of rolls, butter and jam and at lunchtime the chicken with rice and a green salad.
Elisabeth’s children - three of whom lived with her in the cellar and three of whom were removed shortly after birth to be brought up by Fritzl and Rosemarie - are all said to be doing well in their new home.
The cellar children recently underwent complete medical checks to see if their immune systems had recovered from the poor diet and lack of sunlight and vitamin D due to their underground incarceration. All are progressing well although Felix, eight, still has to wear sunglasses when the light is too bright.
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Elisabeth Fritzl, 44, has invited her mother Rosemarie to her home in a small village for the festivities at the end of a year in which her tormentor contacted her over 20 times by letter.
He also tried telephoning but the prison put a block on him making contact with her.
Josef Fritzl will get an extra hour of sleep and special food on Christmas. Meanwhile his estranged wife and the daughter he raped for 24 years will be spending the holiday together
In 2010 Elisabeth passed her driving test, saw her children slowly recover from their psychiatric scars left by their cellar ordeal and has slowly patched things up with her mother.
Rosemarie, in the process of divorcing 75-year-old Fritzl as he serves out his life sentence for rape, enslavement and negligent homicide - the result of the death of one of the seven children Elisabeth bore him in the cellar - is a sad figure who lives on minimal social security payments in a threadbare bedsit.
Elisabeth was estranged from her after she was freed from the dungeon in April 2008 because she learned of her father‘s rapist past.
This drawing shows the room in the basement of his house where Fritl kept his daughter captive
But she has slowly learned to forgive her, telling friends and carers that “she is as much a victim as everyone else in this tale.“
Fritzl, who is showing the early signs of dementia in prison, sent letters to Elisabeth earlier this year asking her to provide money for him to study law in jail with a view to him getting a re-trial.
He also asked his sister-in-law to tell him he still loved his wife and that he dreamed of joining her on the outside one day. But to his family he is dead in all but name: no-one has been to visit him in jail since he was sentenced but his lawyer and one German journalist.
On Christmas Eve he will be fed with fish and potato salad and allowed to watch TV in the afternoon. He will also be permitted to attend a special church service for prisoners in the jail church attended by a visiting bishop.
He gets an extra hour‘s lie-in on Christmas morning to 8.00am followed by a breakfast of rolls, butter and jam and at lunchtime the chicken with rice and a green salad.
Elisabeth’s children - three of whom lived with her in the cellar and three of whom were removed shortly after birth to be brought up by Fritzl and Rosemarie - are all said to be doing well in their new home.
The cellar children recently underwent complete medical checks to see if their immune systems had recovered from the poor diet and lack of sunlight and vitamin D due to their underground incarceration. All are progressing well although Felix, eight, still has to wear sunglasses when the light is too bright.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk
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