Miscellaneous

What a sunuvabitch

Seventy-three-year-old Josef Fritzl, an Austrian, is a fucking scumbag. This Vincent Price-looking bastard kept his daughter captive in a dank cellar for 24 years, only speaking to her, for the most part, when he would come down to rape her. He fathered seven children with his poor daughter, and would often rape her in front of their kids.

Wearing a mismatched gray suit and hiding his face behind a folder as the trial began, Josef Fritzl pleaded guilty to incest and false imprisonment, but he denied enslaving his daughter Elisabeth or murdering her newborn son. He pleaded only partially guilty to additional counts of rape and coercion.

The 73-year-old Fritzl faces up to life in prison if convicted of the negligent homicide charge, which stems from the death of the 2-day-old baby boy, who investigators contend might have survived if he had gotten medical care. Incest, by contrast, carries only a one-year sentence.

The AP story has more of the despicible details, if you're interested. But get this -- Fritzl's shitheel of a lawyer makes the following argument to counter the contention that Fritzl is a monster:

Fritzl's lawyer, Rudolf Mayer, said his client regretted his actions and insisted he was "not a monster," even bringing his captives a Christmas tree.

"If you just want to have sex, you don't have children," Mayer said. "As a monster, I'd kill all of them downstairs."

See -- he's not a monster! He's just a scumbag asshole with an idiot asshole for a lawyer.

Full post as published by Quiz Law on March 19, 2009 (boomark / email).