they learned the language. they learned mathematics. so i mean, they have been raised very well. they have a they are very well behaved. it s really astounding if you experience stefan, he s a very, very polite and dedicated person. and so i think elisabeth tried her best to give them a structure and a good life under the given circumstances in the dungeon. recent home video of fritzl frolicking in thailand suggests that he didn t have a care in the world. it also suggests that he may have had a voracious sexual appetite. his sex life can definitely not be classified as normal. my information is that on numerous occasions, he visited brothels, where he indulged in various perverted activities. his absences on holiday for several weeks at a time have
these three middle children upstairs we ll probably never get a final on that. you can imagine that it was getting a bit crowded. you must have guessed the more prisoners in the cellar the more complicated it became to look after them. taking the three middle children upstairs posed problems. how to explain the arrival of the babies? his solution was simple. elisabeth was a bad mother and had abandoned her children. a pattern was established in the middle of the night, a baby would be left on the fritzls door step with a note from elisabeth, again, a letter the father forced her to write. translator: i m really sorry that i have to turn to you again. i hope lisa is doing well. she must have grown by now. monika is now 9 1/2 months old. she was breast fed for 7 1/2 months and now eats almost anything but she still likes the bottle best.
than at home and that sometimes she went quiet when it was time to go home again. it was the same for both of us. it was like a silence descending. andreas kruzig was elisabeth s former boyfriend. translator: she really confided in me. i knew that she was under pressure from her parents and that she ran away from home when she was 14 or 15. according to elisabeth s testimony to police, the situation at home was worse than just a stern father. she says her father s sexual abuse began at age 11. she d kept it secret. translator: the abuse at 11 years. i thought about it a lot recently, whether i noticed anything back when we were at school. now it s easier to understand why she didn t talk about boys or about sex. now with hindsight i understand why she didn t talk about certain things or why she was distant and quiet.
emotional recovery will be long and difficult, especially elisabeth s. i am sad to say that i think she is profoundly damaged. to imagine somebody held captive for 24 years, i truly see some sort of recovery that she lives and hopefully is healthy and is restored to some kind of life that she can lead, but i think there is absolutely no way to repair all of the damage that she sustained. however, there is some sign of hope. recently the fritzl children sent a note of thanks to the townspeople for their expressions of concern and wrote of their relief at being free. stefan, age 18, wrote translator: i like the sun and the fresh air. felix, age 5, wrote translator: i want to look at a meadow.
fritzl has told investigators that his decision to incarcerate his daughter was to rescue her from what he described as persons of questionable moral standards and that ever since she started puberty elisabeth had ceased to obey his rules. one of the things with all of us in law enforcement see over the years especially applies in cases of familial violence and it s the defense that i was doing something to protect or better the life of the victim. they re absurd but that doesn t stop most of these guys from trying. fritzl admitted in an interview for an austrian magazine that he had other reasons to lock up his daughter. my desire to have sex with elisabeth also got much stronger as time went by. we first had sex in spring 1985. i could not control myself any more.