Another ‘Oz Fritzl’ faces incest, child sex charges dating back 40 yrs

October 8th, 2009 LONDON - A 68-year-old man, from Harlow, in Essex, was jailed for 12 years yesterday after a court heard he had sex with his daughter over a 33-year period and fathered two of her children. The man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was branded depraved and wicked by a judge at Chelmsford Crown Court after pleading guilty to incest, rape and indecent assault.

September 16th, 2009 SYDNEY - An Australian kept his daughter as a sex slave for 30 years and fathered her four children in the Melbourne house he shared with his wife, the Herald Sun newspaper reported Thursday. The case has clear parallels with Austrian Josef Fritzl, who was jailed for life earlier this year for keeping his daughter prisoner in a cellar and fathering her seven children over 24 years of sexual abuse.

September 15th, 2009 LONDON - "American Fritzl" Phillip Garrido will come face to face with Jaycee Lee Dugard in court, after being accused of holding her as his sex slave for 18 years. Garrido is accused of kidnapping Jaycee when she was 11 years old and raping and fathering her two children, now aged 11 and 15, during her time in captivity.

September 13th, 2009 LONDON - Phillip Garrido, the "American Fritzl", selected Jaycee Lee Dugard as his prey during a "child shopping" trip because she looked cute, his wife has told police in California. Describing the precision that went into the abduction of the then 11-year-old Jaycee, Nancy told cops that they decided not to snatch the pretty blond girl with the gap-toothed grin that day in June 1991 because she was walking through South Lake Tahoe along with few school friends.

September 8th, 2009 LONDON - It has emerged that American Fritzl, Phillip Garrido, had brainwashed his wife Nancy and also alienated her from her own family. Nancy's brother, Pete Bocanegra, claims that it has been nearly 30 years since he spoke to his sister, who along with Garrido, has been charged with kidnapping, raping and keeping Jaycee Lee Dugard captive for 18 years.

August 31st, 2009 LONDON - Police suspect that 'American Fritzl' Phillip Garrido terrified Jaycee Lee Dugard by taking her to sites where he may have killed 10 prostitutes. Garrido kept Jaycee as his sex slave for 18 years and fathered two children with her.

August 29th, 2009 LONDON - Phillip Garrido, the "American Fritzl", who held a girl captive for 18 years and fathered two children with her, claimed the kidnap and rape ordeal of Jaycee Lee Dugard would be revealed as "a powerful, heart-warming story". The convicted rapist, who snatched Jaycee at age of 11, added: "You're going to be really impressed - it's going to make world news." The 58-year-old was speaking to a Californian TV station instead of a lawyer using the one phone call to which he was legally entitled, reports The Daily Express.

August 20th, 2009 BUENOS AIRES - A 74-year-old man has been arrested on charges of raping his three daughters over a period of 17 years and also sexually abusing children he fathered with the elder daughter, the police said. The man was arrested after his 29-year-old daughter filed a criminal complaint with police in the city of Itati.

July 7th, 2009 LONDON - In a case quite reminiscent of Dungeon dad Josef Fritzl, a South African man has been accused of keeping his own daughter as a sex slave after she visited him for the first time. The man, known only as 'Heinz', allegedly raped his 18-year-old daughter, called 'Sandra', up to three times a day over a period of two months.

June 19th, 2009 LONDON - WH Smith, the British newspaper, books and stationery retailer, has come under fire for promoting a book on Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl as a Father's Day gift. The Crimes of Josef Fritzl, written by journalists Stefanie Marsh and Bojan Pancevski, details how the 74-year-old kept daughter Elisabeth captive for 24 years in a rat-infested cellar at Amstetten, Austria.

June 18th, 2009 LONDON - Irish cops are investigating a chilling case of suspected incest in which seven children were raped by their parents and forced to have sex with each other. Officers are probing the "Irish Fritzl" couple amid claims that the mother gave birth to a child fathered by one of her sons.

June 9th, 2009 LONDON - Austrian dungeon victim Elisabeth Fritzl's doctors have revealed that she has quit therapy after finding love with her bodyguard. Elisabeth, 43, had been held captive by her dad Josef in an underground cellar, where he raped her for 24 long years and fathered seven children on her.

June 5th, 2009 London, June 5 (ANI): Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl, who raped and imprisoned his daughter for 24 years, will be moved to a jail wing for mentally abnormal offenders to serve his life sentence, it has been announced. The 74-year-old's shift to Stein will "keep him safe from attack" by fellow-convicts, said Austrian prison boss Karl Drexler, reports The Mirror.

June 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Looks like love is in the air for dungeon girl Elisabeth Fritzl, for she has reportedly struck up a relationship with her bodyguard. Austria's Oesterreich newspaper has reported that the 42-year-old became involved with the man identified as "Thomas W" after they spent months together after she was released.

March 19th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Dungeon dad Josef Fritzl has pleaded guilty to all the charges with which he has been charged, including murdering one of the children he fathered with his daughter Elisabeth, whom he kept as a sex slave for 24 years. At the start of the third day of his trial, the Austrian engineer changed his plea to guilty on all charges, including the murder for which he faces a life sentence.