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Seasoned Reporter
United Kingdom
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 Posted - Jun 18 2008 : 12:36:32
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Josef Fritzl's daughter will give evidence against him
By Nick Allen
Last Updated: 11:20AM BST 11/06/2008 Telegraph online
Josef Fritzl's teenage daughter Kerstin will be able to give crucial evidence against him after waking from a seven-week coma, Austrian police believe.
Kerstin, 19, was held captive by her father in a dungeon for her entire life during which she never saw the outside world.
Since waking she has been reunited with her mother Elisabeth and two brothers who were also kept in the cellar under Fritzl's home in the town of Amstetten.
Fritzl took Kerstin out of the dungeon on April 19 after she fell seriously ill and, in a rare act of mercy, took her to hospital.
That led to her mother Elisabeth, 42, and brothers Stefan, 18, and Felix, five, being discovered in the cellar by police.
Kerstin had lived without fresh air, natural light or exercise and was extremely sick when she arrived at hospital.
Doctors put her into an induced coma to allow her to recover.
They initially feared Kerstin would die after she suffered multiple organ failure and was put on a life support machine.
After she woke she was reunited with her family in a specially designed room at the Amstetten-Mauer clinic which was made to resemble her previous underground environment.
Elisabeth, who is Fritzl's daughter by his wife Rosemarie, 69, was imprisoned in the cellar as a sex slave for 24 years.
She and her children are expected to remain in the clinic for months as medics and psychiatrists try to help them adjust to the outside world.
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Fritzl's daughter will give evidence
