No children born of alleged abuse case in Austria

AUSTRIAN prosecutors investigating suspicions that an 80-year-old sexually abused his two mentally disabled daughters for 41 years said no children were born of the alleged incestuous relationships.

The case has parallels to that of another Austrian, Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned his daughter in a windowless cellar for 24 years and repeatedly raped her, fathering her seven children. Fritzl was sentenced to life imprisonment two years ago for that crime and for responsibility in the death of one of the children.

But state prosecutor Alois Ebner said that questioning of the 80-year-old’s two daughters and other had indicated that no offspring existed.