"Our patient is in a severely life-threatening condition which resulted from a lack of oxygen caused sometime between Wednesday and Friday when she was admitted," Reiter told German broadcaster N24. The doctor treating the young woman, Albert Reiter, said on Tuesday her condition was critical and her artificially induced coma would continue for several more days. Undated police handout picture made available April 28, 2008, shows the bathroom in the basement of a house where a woman was held imprisoned for 24 years in the small Austrian village of Amstetten. Doctors appealed for her mother to come forward to give details of her medical history. The case unfolded when the 19-year-old daughter became ill and was taken to hospital. Three other children - two girls and one boy - were adopted and brought up by Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie. The younger two were boys, the eldest a girl. Three of her children, aged 19, 18 and 5, had been locked in the cellar with her since birth and had never seen sunlight. He was calm when he arrived on Monday and had been put in a cell where he can be monitored in case he tries to commit suicide, said Guenther Moerwald, head of St Poelten prison.Įlisabeth Fritzl, 42, says her father lured her into the cellar of their home in 1984 and drugged and handcuffed her before imprisoning her. Officials said Fritzl said nothing on the advice of his lawyer. We have to go over every detail very carefully," Prucher said.įritzl appeared before a judge in St Poelten, the provincial capital of Lower Austria, on Tuesday, who ordered that police could keep him in detention while inquiries continue. "Down there it is just chaos at the moment. Investigators were still searching the 60 square meter (645 sq ft) cellar beneath electrical engineer Fritzl's home, Franz Prucher, head of security in Lower Austria said. A handout picture released by the Austrian police shows one of the underground rooms in the Fritzl family house in Amstetten.
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