No youngstersborn in Austria abuse case

Austrian prosecutors investigating suspicions n 80-year-old man sexually abused his 2 mentally disabled daughters for 41 years said Friday that no youngsterswere born of the alleged incestuous relationships.The case has parallels to that of another Austrian, Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned his daughter in a windowless cellar for two4 years and repeatedly raped her, fathering her seven children.Fritzl was sentenced to life imprisonment two years aopt for that crime and for responsibility within the death of 1 of the most youngsters.But state prosecutor Alois Ebner said that querying of the 80-year-old's two daughters and other leads had not turned up any indications of offspring.the person - from the upperAustrian village of St. Peter am Hart - is suspected of assault, torture or neglect of defenceless individuals, threat to life or physical condition, rape and other sex crimes. He denies the allegations.Despite being questioned weeks ago, he were free and living in a senior citizens' home until police detained him on Thursday.On Friday, an investigative judge ordered that he remain in custody no less than until Sept. ninepending continued investigations.Police said the person's daughters - now 53 and fourfiveyears old - have accused him of repeatedly raping them on their home between 1970 and should 2011.the girlssaid their father regularlywarned he would kill them in the event that they resisted, occasionally threatening them with firearms and beating them with a stick and a pitchfork, police said.additionally they said thon their mother, who died three years ago, was repeatedly abutilized by the suspect.Police don't have anyt named the person or his daughters. The nameplate at the family spaceidentifies the landlord just as "Wagner."the home itself, a well-kept, two-story dwelling, stands on the top of a road at the village's outskirts, almaximumhidden from view by a big tree. The family had no immediate neighbours.A village resident who refused to offer his name said the daddy had worked as a road maintenance worker for the region before retiring.the girlstold police thon they escaped when their father fell and was uncapable of rise up after the older daughter pushed him through the los angelesst attempted rape.Authorities have given contradictory versions of why it toksee you later for the allegations to become public.First news of the case were published on Thursday by local media - greater than two months after the girlssaid they escaped.within the most recent explanation on Friday, regional government politician Georg Wojak told reporters thon the initial allegations of sexual abuse surfaced August 8 when a social worker who discovered the daddy two days after he fell first went to police together with her suspicions.State prosecutor Ernestine Heger said the 2 women, who were alin a positionquestioned by police, would now be interrogated by her office and n professionalopinion can be drawn up about how "meaningful" their testimony is.Police and localmedia originally said the suspect had allegedly kept the victims locked in a tiny room in their home for 41 years, but later revised that version, suggesting that they had limited freedom of movement, despite the fact that every one three slept in a single small room."They were seen in and across the home," local police commander Martin Pumberger told state broadcaster ORF."however the daughters were prohibited from any and all social contact."Pumberger said thon the ladies's accusations "are believable," adding thon they "are relieved thon they were capable of talktheir decades-long martyrdom."