Josef Fritzl will stay in a high-security jail after court judges reversed strategies to move him to a ‘normal’ prison.
The 87- year-old was imprisoned in 2009 for locking his child Elisabeth in the basement of their Austrian house and raping her countless times.
She brought to life 7 kids while in captivity– 3 remained in the dungeon with her, one passed away soon after birth and another 3 were raised by Fritzl and his better half Rosemarie.
Earlier this year, the choice was made to move Fritzl from a psychiatric detention centre to a ‘normal’ jail.
The Krems Regional Court had actually ruled he was ‘no longer a danger’.
But Austria’s Higher Regional Court (OLG) in Vienna has actually now reversed that choice.
Instead, Fritzl will serve more time at Krems-Stein, Austria’s most safe and secure psychiatric prison for psychologically ill lawbreakers.
The Krems local court verified the choice on Tuesday, June 7.
Judges stated: ‘The Higher Regional Court (OLG) Vienna has recognised the need for further accommodation in an institution for mentally abnormal lawbreakers.’
If Fritzl had actually been launched into a regular jail, he might have been qualified for early release.
But the relocation was obstructed when the Krems public district attorney’s workplace lodged a grievance, backed by senior judges in Vienna today.
They specified that the choice to keep Fritzl at the high-security psychiatric jail was warranted since he still experiences a non-treatable major mental disorder.
Fritzl– who altered his name to Mayrhoff 5 years back– is supposedly experiencing dementia.
If the Vienna court had actually supported the choice for him to be transferred to a regular jail, Fritzl might have been qualified to use to be released on parole next year in 2023.
Fritzl’s child Elisabeth has actually not had any contact with him because he was imprisoned and lives under a brand-new alias with her kids.
She had actually been tempted into his basement when she was simply 18.
Fritzl held her hostage in an underground basement dungeon he had actually constructed himself in Amstetten.
She was caught there in between 1984 and 2008.
During this time, he abused and raped her various times and fathered an overall of 7 kids with her.
He likewise kept 3 of these kids hostage in the basement dungeon.
The Fritzl case emerged in April 2008 after Elisabeth informed cops she had actually been cooped for 24 years when she was permitted out of the cell and required to a healthcare facility.
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