Update: Father confesses to horrific crimes
Elisabeth F’s story is tragic and a sad reminder that rapists are not strangers lurking in the bushes, but acquaintances, friends and family members.
by Melissa McEwan
[TRIGGER WARNING for sexual and emotional abuse]“Woman Held Captive and Repeatedly Raped by Own Father for 24 Years” is my headline about Elisabeth F, a 42-year-old Austrian woman believed missing since 1984, because her now 73-year-old father has been holding her captive in an elaborate underground dungeon concealed by a series of locks and trapdoors, creating fake letters from her to give the impression she was part of a cult, and fathering seven children she bore—one of whom died, three of whom never saw daylight until this week, and three of whom he and his wife raised after he claimed his “missing” daughter left them on their doorstep with notes she couldn’t care for them.
It’s an absolutely horrific, nightmarish story, which began when the father tricked his own daughter, who he had reportedly been sexually assaulting since she was 11, into the cellar, then drugged, handcuffed, and dragged her into the dungeon, the existence of which even his wife was allegedly not aware. Bluntly, what we’re talking about is the allegation that a man kept his own daughter as his sex slave for nearly a quarter of a century.
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