"I was born to be a rapist"

And his daughter suffered the worst. Josef Fritzl's story is a nightmare! During psychiatric sessions he is supposed to have said, “I have realised that I had a mean streak. For someone who was born to be a rapist, I have managed to contain myself for a relatively long period.” And also of interest is his own mother's behaviour - 'Fritzl, who participated in in-depth interviews with Kastner told the psychiatrist that his relationship with women was shaped by his experience with his abusive mother. He said his mother had beaten him and isolated him from other children until he started school'.

What happens behind closed doors is difficult to fathom. But the effect on the child...? God save them.