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Fritzl case echoes fade as women recant story
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September 11, 2011, Sunday
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AN 80-year-old Austrian man held for around two weeks on suspicion that he regularly raped his daughters for 41 years has been freed after the two women changed their story, prosecutors said.
Until Friday's stunning development, the case was described as having parallels to that of Josef Fritzl, another Austrian serving a life sentence for fathering seven children with his daughter in a windowless cellar.
Any similarities appeared to be dissolving, however.
The women in the latest case still say they were sexually molested but were now blaming another man for the alleged assaults, which they say happened some time in the past, the state prosecutor's office said.
That version is now being checked, a prosecutor's statement from the Upper Austrian city of Ried said. Now 53 and 45 years old, the women have been described by officials as having mental disabilities - one to a slight degree, the other more severely affected.
In the Fritzl case, the Austrian imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and repeatedly raped her, fathering her seven children. He was sentenced to life in jail two years ago.
No one had been charged in the latest case, however. The man was detained on August 25 pending investigations by state prosecutors after police questioned the women and found their testimony believable. The two had accused their father of repeatedly raping them at their home between 1970 and May 2011.
Until Friday's stunning development, the case was described as having parallels to that of Josef Fritzl, another Austrian serving a life sentence for fathering seven children with his daughter in a windowless cellar.
Any similarities appeared to be dissolving, however.
The women in the latest case still say they were sexually molested but were now blaming another man for the alleged assaults, which they say happened some time in the past, the state prosecutor's office said.
That version is now being checked, a prosecutor's statement from the Upper Austrian city of Ried said. Now 53 and 45 years old, the women have been described by officials as having mental disabilities - one to a slight degree, the other more severely affected.
In the Fritzl case, the Austrian imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and repeatedly raped her, fathering her seven children. He was sentenced to life in jail two years ago.
No one had been charged in the latest case, however. The man was detained on August 25 pending investigations by state prosecutors after police questioned the women and found their testimony believable. The two had accused their father of repeatedly raping them at their home between 1970 and May 2011.
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