Buzzin Disgrace

The distressing case of Josef Fritzl, a 73 year old Austrian man who has been found guilty of physically assaulting, sexually abusing, and systematically raping one of his daughters, Elisabeth Fritzl (now 42) while keeping her imprisoned, along with three of the children he fathered with her, in the basement of the family home for a period of 24 years has been the main story both in the UK and right across Europe for the past couple of weeks.

After changing his please to guilty on all accounts, including the murder of another grandson, yesterday Josef Fritzl was sentenced to a life sentence.

Following this sentence, there was a discussion on the radio this morning as to whether such an atrocious and callous crime deserved the death penalty. The opinion was divided with some voicing the opinion that a civil society could not impose the death penalty.

I disagree. I sick of hearing the views of others who appear more concerned with the perpetrators of crime and less so of the innocent victims of crime. Anyone found guilty without any reasonable doubt of their inhumane crimes against another human has no human rights at all.

What punishment fits the crimes of Josef Fritzl?

There is no punishment that is going to fit this crime. Whether Josef Fritzl spends the rest of his life in prison or was to receive the death penalty, it would not give back 24 years of his daughter’s life or that of her surviving children.

Josef Fritzl is not ill or insane, he is just another evil man with absolutely no morals or concern for another person’s life. This is a man who knew what was right or wrong and chose to ignore it.

So why should anyone give a damn as to his human rights or what is best for a so-called ‘civil’ society?

All I can think of is Elisabeth Fritzl is two years younger than me. Not only will she always be scarred by this nightmare, she was an innocent victim who has lost a large part of her life.

Josef Fritzl does not deserve to live.