<P> The Fritzl case emerged in April 2008, when a woman named Elisabeth Fritzl (born 6 April 1966) told police in the town of Amstetten, Austria, that she had been held captive for 24 years by her father, Josef Fritzl (born 9 April 1935). Fritzl had assaulted, sexually abused, and raped her numerous times during her imprisonment inside a concealed area in the basement of the family home . The abuse by Elisabeth's father resulted in the birth of seven children: three of them remained in captivity with their mother, one had died just days after birth, and the other three were brought up by Fritzl and his wife, Rosemarie, having been reported as foundlings . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikinews has related articles: </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Ul> <Li> Austrian man kept daughter prisoner in cellar for 24 years </Li> <Li> Police: Austrian children kept in dungeon were in' oppressive' conditions </Li> <Li> Trial date scheduled for Austrian man who kept his daughter in a dungeon for 24 years </Li> <Li> Austrian man who imprisoned daughter pleads guilty at start of trial </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> </Table>

Austrian woman kept in cellar for 24 years