Last weekend I had a horrifying experience when
I read a book based on a true crime story – ‘Secrets in the Cellar’ by John Glatt.
The
book describes the dark secrets of an Austrian family.
-
The book describes
how a well-educated, qualified, super-intelligent engineer (73 year- old in
2008) turns his family home into a house of horrors.
- The book describes
how he inflicted violence and inhumane behaviour on his family of a wife and 7
children
- The book describes
the bloody monster started raping his 11-year old innocent daughter and then
put her into a secret cellar when she was 18 beneath his house for over 24 years.
- There he continues
raping her and fathers her 7 children!
- The book describes
how the daughter and her children suffered for 24 years in the underground
dungeon under pathetic conditions of suffocating air, darkness, and infectious atmosphere
without sunlight, fresh air, food and rain.
- Apart from such atrocious crime, he was
charged with up to 3000 other rape cases later when the missing daughter mystery
was revealed.
I swear, I couldn’t
sleep well that night after I finished the novel in two days, unusually quickly
not because it was an interesting write-up but so as to get out of this terror-stricken story. And after
reading it, I could not believe how someone, atleast a father could be so meryless,
so wicked and cruel who kept inflicting such shamefully horrifying acts to his
own daughter. He was definitely a devil in the human skin!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case for details.
While reading the intriguing novel and the news
reports, I couldn’t understand why the Austrian govt, gave him only 18 month
imprisonment for his first rape charges which were infact ERASED later after 15
years, and what was more strange is the govt. just gave him a mere life-imprisonment
sentence for multiple crimes.
Had the govt. given him a punishment of severe
nature or life-sentence at the first place, don’t you think, the innocent
daughter would have been saved from getting her whole life spoilt by her
father.
So, my question is
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