Today, an Austrian court decided to send him to a prison for common criminals. Joseph Fritzl, sentenced in 2009 to life imprisonment for locked himself in the basement and raped his daughter for 24 years, a sentence he is still serving in a center for convicts with mental disorders.

The “Monster of Amstetten”, who turns 89 next April, locked up his own daughter in 1984, sexually abused her for years and With her he had seven children, who were born in the basement of the family home without the knowledge of the rest of the family.

The judgment, which will not be enforced until it is final, means he will continue to serve his sentence in prison. although his defense continues to seek parole and considers this measure the first step towards his release from prison.

However, this request for general parole was rejected by the court today.

If the decision is not appealed, Joseph Fritz, who, according to Austrian media, some time ago changed his last name to Mayrhoff.will spend the next ten years in prison on the condition that he undergoes psychiatric treatment.

The decision to leave the psychiatric center was based on an expert report which stated that he was suffering from dementia. circumstances no longer exist for their current conditions of detention.

The defense also pointed out that the court stated that The convict is no longer dangerous APA news agency reports.

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His lawyer Astrid Wagner assured that her client “He’s full of regrets.”

After discovery in 2008 Fritzl’s crime caused an international outcry and the aggressor father, then 73, was sentenced to life imprisonment in a prison for mentally ill offenders in Krems, 80 kilometers from Vienna.

(according to information from EFE)