life without SUNLIGHT.

The children knew that there is life above the windowless cellar they are living for the whole life. They knew the world through television and the little their mother remembered. Fritzel declared that Elisabeth, his elder daughter has ran away at 18 never to be seen but was actually kidnapped by Fritzel and kept hidden underground.
It was in this cellar which Fritzel, raped her repeatedly for 24 years and she gave birth to seven children. The first baby died shortly after birth due to lack of medical facilities. The other 3 children was adopted by Fritzel's wife Rosemarie, saying that Elisabeth left them at the doorstep and ran away. The last 3 children stayed with Elisabeth in the windowless cellar.
After spending their entire lives imprisoned in a cramped cellar deep underground, Elisabeth and her children are getting used to sunlight.
Due to the privation they suffered doctors say they are extremely pale. The eldest of them Kerstin, 19, is fighting for life, undergoing an artificial coma and dialysis. Her admission to a hospital near Amstetten in Austria was the trigger that led to the unraveling of Fritzel's double life. Doctors demanded a medical history of Kerstin which appealed her mother Elisabeth to come forward publicly. Police arrested Fritzel and Elisabeth near the hospital.
Elisabeth, now 42 and her family is treated carefully in a clinic near Amstetten with special team of doctors simultaneously reuniting the siblings of the Elisabeth's upstair family which the media say as 'very emotional'.
Fritzel who admitted that he sexually abused her daughter and fathered seven children is behind the bars.

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