To all the "happens only in Austria"-people:
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A 48-year-old US man who sexually assaulted his daughter for nearly two decades and fathered her three children has been sentenced to life in prison.
"I hope he suffers,'' his 29-year-old daughter told the Los Angeles Times after the man was sentenced to a total of 109 years in Los Angeles on Friday.
"I want him to die in there in jail because that's what he did to me. He confined me.''
She told authorities that her father began sexually assaulting her at the age of 6, beat her and kept her a prisoner in their home.
He installed security cameras to monitor her and told her he would kill her if she tried to escape, she said.
The defendant, who represented himself at the trial, made charges of falsified evidence and perjured testimony, but DNA tests proved he was the father and grandfather of the victim's daughters, ages 4, 7 and 11.
http://www.watoday.com.au/world/american-fritzl-jailed-for-109-years-20090418-aaov.html'Colombian Fritzl' fathered eight with daughter
BOGOTA (AFP) — Colombian officials have confirmed that a man accused of raping his daughter for more than 20 years and fathering eight children with her is the woman's biological father, in a case recalling Austria's Josef Fritzl.
According to a report late Monday by the Colombian Institute of Legal Medicine, tests confirm that 68-year-old farmer Arcebio Alvarez is indeed the father of Alba Nidia Alvarez, who said she came forward with the shocking allegations last month after accusing him of abusing the children.
Alvarez has claimed he is innocent, but local media quickly dubbed the alleged abuser "the Monster of Mariquita," after the name of the family's home town in southwest Colombia.
The daughter, now 32, reportedly claimed Alvarez forced her into the abusive relationship after her mother died when she was nine years old, and that she had her first child at age 13.
Alvarez was questioned and detained last month but released because of his advanced age.
His attorney had asked Colombian authorities to conduct a DNA test in an attempt to prove that his daughter had actually been adopted.
In the sensational father-child sex abuse case in Austria, Fritzl was sentenced last month to life in prison for raping his daughter for 24 years, and for the murder of one of the seven children he had with her.
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