The decision to transfer Josef Fritzl - who kept his daughter captive for 24 years and raped her thousands of times - to a regular prison has been overturned by an Austrian court.
BERLIN (AP): Austrian prosecutors have appealled a court decision that a man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years and raped her thousands of times, fathering seven children with her, can be moved from psychiatric detention to a regular prison.
Austrian prosecutors have appealed against a court decision that a man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years and raped her thousands of times, fathering seven children with her, can be moved from psychiatric detention to an ordinary prison.
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Austrian prosecutors have filed a complaint aimed at overturning a court decision last week that 88-year-old incestuous rapist Josef Fritzl should be moved to regular prison, a court spokesman said on Thursday. The court in the town of Krems an der Donau west of Vienna ordered last week that Fritzl be transferred conditionally out of a prison psychiatric unit and into regular custody after a psychiatric assessment found he posed no threat of re-offending. Fritzl, who has now changed his name to one not made public, raped his daughter as he held her captive for 24 years, fathering her seven children.