Remember the sick news that we learned months ago, when an Austrian man was found out to have locked his daughter for decades and was found to have SIX children with her?!
Well, I've told God that I wanted to follow up that story months from then and learn of what motivated Fritzl to do what he did.
I found out in here. I learned that he was abused as a child by his mother. His mother called him names, like telling him he was "Satan," and a good for nothing. As he grew up, he was being beaten until he bled. And in the end, when he was already capable of torment, he locked his mom up in the top room of his house, bricked the window, and for the rest of her life, she ever saw the light of day again.
If you think that he transferred his hatred of his mom to his daughter, he did not. He simply got enamored with the way she looked.
In an interview in the series of links I have below, he declared that he just saw his daughter as "his wife and partner."
UGH.
He also declared that he was "born to be a rapist."
He actually dressed up whenever he went down to his daughter, in the dungeon that he had forced her to build. With her hands.
How could a brilliant mind, which had been capable of devising an electric door and other gizmos and contraptions be so attuned to evil, that he believes his only purpose in life was to rape hapless women?
And the only reason why he finally let Elizabeth go out was that she had prematurely aged already (What do you expect, genius, no oxygen! PLUS, you were committing incest, right? So you actually thought a woman would remain beautiful even though sheer evil is being forced on her?! Garrrrrh! No words cannot express!), and may have kept his interests no longer.
Words cannot express. Words cannot express. Words cannot express the derision I feel for him. I wish I could personally use a shaving razor to cut little sections of his flesh while he's fully conscious. Then I'll squeeze lemon juice on those wounds. Then I'll sprinkle salt on the raw flesh. I'll space my cuts 1 inch apart, all throughout his body. Then I'll boil him in oil. Then I'll bake him in burning sulfur.
I certainly hope that there would be no space in God's merciful heart for him. But as far as I know God, sometimes, He still forgives repentant mass killers. Like Paul.
But if there's anything that gives me enormous relief in this story is the story I share below. Elizabeth and her children are now enjoying life playing. They have tough times ahead of them, especially Elizabeth, but apparently, she had good company in the cellar.
Because as they left the dungeon/house, Elizabeth's son Felix, when he first saw the moon, asked, "Is that God up there?"
I believe that despite the twisted circumstances, Elizabeth taught her children about God, because how could the captive boy ask about someOne he didn't know of?
And according to this story, Elizabeth is continuing to teach her children about the beauty of life.
I believe that when Elizabeth finally got a breath of fresh air, after 24 years of captivity, she also understood, without a doubt that there IS a God.
This article below may well be the strongest testament to that.
Austrian sex dungeon victim Elisabeth Fritzl is 'teaching her children how to play'
Incest victim Elisabeth Fritzl is teaching her children to how to play after they spent their entire lives imprisoned in their underground dungeon.
Psychiatrists found Elisabeth's three 'cellar children' had no concept of 'play' after a lifetime spent in the cell constructed by their sick father.
So brave Elisabeth is showing them how to swim, run and even rollerblade, hospital staff revealed today.
And her son Stefan has been so overwhelmed by the natural world that he wants to become a gardener, explained one of his police bodyguards.
Elisabeth spent 24 years in the dungeon in Amstetten, Austria, where she was repeatedly raped by her evil father Josef Fritzl, who fathered seven children, one of whom died days after birth, with her.
Three were taken to live upstairs with him while the others - Felix, five, Kerstin, 19, and Stefan, 18 - were condemned to a life in their mother's cell.
Now Elisabeth is teaching them how to do all the things normal children take for granted as they live together in a specially adapted villa in the grounds of a psychiatric hospital.
One of the family's police bodyguards revealed how Stefan would simply stop and stare at trees when he saw them for the first time.
'I remember when we went for a walk on the clinic premises for the first time.
'When Stefan stood under the massive trees there, he looked up into the treetops and said he wants to become a gardener.
'He was simply so fascinated by them and could not believe how huge they grew.
'He was fascinated by the fact that the branches loom so high in the air,' one of their protection team Franz Prankl told Austrian media.
And Elisabeth often startles patients and staff at the clinic when she races around the grounds with her children on rollerblade skates.
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Monster: Josef Fritzl was the father of Elisabeth's seven children
Hospital official Fritz Lengauer told Austrian media: 'She does a lot of inline skating and they're always overtaking people walking in the grounds and they usually have no idea who they are.'
Passers-by at the family's villa say they can hear the sound of children laughing and screaming with delight as they play together.
'It lifts your heart to hear these children playing and having so much fun after such a sad start in life. Their mother is a miracle worker.
'You can hear them splashing and just screaming their heads off at the thrill of being outside,' said one.
Bodyguard Prankl said Elisabeth's courage has been passed on to all her children.
'I always asked myself how she can be so strong. Where does she get this energy which gets carried over to the children?
'I think Elisabeth was always sure she would be released from her torture imprisonment one day.'
Miracles happen every day. :)