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Joseph F the Austrian engineer who was alleged to have kidnapped his own daughter has confessed to fathering seven children on his own daughter and keeping them captive in the cellar. This was revealed by Austrian police today. The event has shaken entire Austria with grief and anger.

It was disclosed that he fathered and then acted as midwife at the birth of Kerstin, 19, Stefan, 18, Lisa, 16, Monica, 14, Alexander, 11, and Felix, 5 during last 24 years.

A seventh child – a twin brother for Monica – was said by police to have died three days after his birth and his body to have been burned in the large, well-kept gardens of the grey, concrete villa in Ybbs Street in the eastern town of Amstetten.

Mr F, didn’t speak to police until this morning. Before that he had told them little more than the code to the hidden electronic trapdoor to the windowless cellars where the secret family was kept imprisoned.
Kerstin 17, the oldest child, is in a hospital and has been lying in a coma for over a week.

He has now said that he locked up his daughter for 24 years and that he alone fathered her seven children and that he locked them up in the cellar.

said Colonel Franz Polzer, head of the criminal investigations unit in the province of Lower Austria.

Mr F has been transferred to court and is expected to appear before an investigating magistrate this evening. DNA test results that will determine whether he did indeed father his daughter Elisabeth’s children are not expected for two days.

Police have spent the night exploring the network of rooms where they say Elisabeth was first imprisoned on August 28 1984, aged 19, after being drugged and handcuffed by her father. The tiny entrance was concealed in a workshop in a public part of the cellar.

There was a shelf with plenty of cans and containers, and behind the shelf was a door made of reinforced concrete, secured electronically and running on steel rails, and only the suspect knew the code.

said Heinz Lenze, a local police official.

Elisabeth was taken to hospital, where she is said to be in a serious condition. Her doctors issued an urgent appeal for her mother to come forward to supply medical information to help save her life.

The case has echoes of the Natascha Kampusch affair in which a Viennese schoolgirl was kept in a cellar from the age of 10 for eight years before escaping.

But while Ms Kampusch’s captivity was possible because of the anonymity of the suburbs, Ms F and her children were prisoners in a small, close-knit community. Neighbours talked yesterday of how Mr F’s wife used to take her three grandchildren for walks and how Mr F always gave a cheery greeting.

Guenther Platter, the Austrian Interior Minister, said:

We are being confronted with an unfathomable crime. Everything that has happened here goes beyond one’s imagination.”