The Authorities and News media have been duped' by RSE Inc.

[David McCarthy]

Josef F imprisoned his daughter in a cellar in 1984, when she was aged 18.
She bore him seven children, one of whom died.
DNA tests have confirmed this.


The 'Authorities" have been 'duped' by RSE for over twenty years now.
The same psychology of denial in the Austrian town of Amstetten
is being played out in Yelm, Behind a mask of deception, fear and religious pretensions.


What does this say about a community, in which an authority figure can go about breaking this private taboo without any great difficulty for almost a quarter of a century? Is this a society which is afraid to have to look into its own abyss?
DIE ZEIT ? GERMANY


David.

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BBC News April 29 2008



Austria stunned by sex abuse case

"Martyrdom in the House of Horror", says Kronen Zeitung's headline
Austrian media express shock and dismay at the horrific details of alleged child abuse and imprisonment in a quiet provincial town.
The Amstetten case, in which a man allegedly imprisoned his daughter and abused her sexually for 24 years, has gripped the nation.
Austrian psychologists say the children allegedly born in the cellar and believed to have been held captive with their mother are most likely severely traumatised.
"After this case it will be impossible to carry on with business as usual," writes Petra Stuiber in Austria's Der Standard daily.
"An entire nation must ask itself what is going fundamentally wrong."
"Martyrdom in the House of Horror," says the front-page headline in Austria's Kronen Zeitung.
"How can it happen here?" asks Austria's Die Presse daily.
Neighbours quoted by Die Presse say the family shut itself off so much that some people, who had lived in the same street a long time, thought the "old man" might even have died.
Such a lifestyle was unusual in a community where most neighbours knew each other, the paper reports.
Authorities 'duped'
The suspect, identified only as Josef F, is alleged to have imprisoned his daughter in the cellar in 1984, when she was aged 18. Police say they believe she bore him seven children, one of whom died - but DNA tests should confirm that.
A reader asks Austria's Wiener Zeitung daily: "How is such a thing still possible today and how many people maybe still live in such circumstances? How can the authorities be duped so easily? One can only hope that these poor creatures get adequate psychiatric help."
KEY FACTS IN CASE

Elisabeth reappeared at home after disappearing 24 years ago
Six children she says are hers have been found and placed in care
One of the children, aged 19, is seriously ill in hospital
Elisabeth's father Josef, 73, has been arrested on suspicion of incest and abduction

Cellar case timeline

The daily Kurier is among those drawing parallels with the case of Natascha Kampusch, who was 10 years old when she was kidnapped in Vienna in March 1998. She made a dramatic escape in 2006.
And in an earlier case, a Vienna couple kept their mentally retarded adopted daughter caged in a cold room like an animal.
"These cases shocked the nation," Kurier's headline reads.
Psychoanalyst Rotraud Perner, quoted by Die Presse, says the imprisonment of young children inflicts "massive damage".
"The brain does not develop," she says, adding that the powers of vision, hearing and speech are all affected by captivity, along with social skills. Victims of prolonged imprisonment can be compared with stroke victims, with similar impairment of their spatial awareness, she says.
The children in the Amstetten case are now in care, and the authorities are giving no information about their condition, because of Austria's strict privacy laws.
The BBC's Bethany Bell in Austria says the case is so horrific that most Austrians are just stunned and are not yet blaming any officials.
Police are expected to spend a long time questioning the suspected abuser, Josef F, our correspondent says.
Vienna psychiatrist Ernst Berger, quoted by Die Presse, says abusers in such cases "often do not show any sign of their psychological disturbance - these people can appear to lead quite a normal life".

BBC News link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7370897.stm



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Dungeon case stuns Europe's media

The world's media have disrupted the gentle pace of Amstetten
The events in the eastern Austrian town of Amstetten are front-page news across Europe. As well as disgust at the revelations surrounding the actions of Josef Fritzl, there is disbelief that he escaped the notice of the authorities - and the suggestion that he may have had outside help.
LE PARISIEN - FRANCE
Austria ran out of superlatives to describe the horror suffered by Natascha Kampusch, kidnapped and isolated in a dungeon by her captor for eight long years. Overwhelmed, Austrians will not find words strong enough to convey the monstrous and diabolic history which has played out in secret for three decades at Amstetten.
LIBERATION - FRANCE
The Austrians are asking themselves: Why didn't social services, who visited the family several times, notice anything unusual? How could the neighbours who all know each other in this part of town not have realised anything? How was Josef able to live a double life for almost a quarter of a century? And what did his wife, who according to the investigators "didn't ask questions", really know?
DIE ZEIT - GERMANY
What does this say about a community, in which an authority figure can go about breaking this private taboo without any great difficulty for almost a quarter of a century? Is this a society which is afraid to have to look into its own abyss?
DAILY MIRROR - UK
The World's Most Evil Dad... the brute whose word was absolute law, locked the door with a code only he knew and cruelly told Elisabeth and the children that it was booby-trapped with explosives.
DAILY MAIL - UK
Neighbours said the three [children] kept above ground were well-balanced and polite members of the police sports club and voluntary fire brigade. Their grandmother, according to many, was a pillar of the community, baking cakes for fetes and becoming an active member of the parent teachers' association at their private school.
DE STANDAARD - BELGIUM
How was it possible that Josef Fritzl regularly went on holiday to Thailand for two to three weeks without his prisoners starving in the cellar? Did he handle it completely by himself or did he have help from outside?
CORRIERE DELLA SERA - ITALY
You can see the birdcage from the pavement of Dammstrasse... When he wasn't playing the good husband with old Rosemarie, or wasn't too tired from being a good grandfather to the three son/grandsons that he ended up looking after, when he wasn't telling jokes in the bar, watering his lawn, going fishing or helping his neighbours fix their broken kettles, when he wasn't disappearing for hours into the cellar to work, when in reality he was opening up the secret bolt to feed his slaves, when his double face didn't have to divide itself between the normal and the horrific, he also found time for them - those small birds, poor little things.
ABC - SPAIN
The hundreds of journalists from around the world who have flooded to the scene since yesterday have transformed the gentle pace of Amstetten. Near number 40 on Ybbsstrasse, neighbours watch the crowd, the satellite dishes and the television crews incredulously. Some are even taking photos to document the day that the name of their town was suddenly on everyone's lips. "We'd have preferred it if Amstetten had become famous for another reason," one passer-by said.

BBC News link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7373462.stm