The man, identified by police as Josef Fritzl, is alleged to have started sexually abusing his daughter, named as Elisabeth Fritzl, when she was eleven years old, and to have subsequently fathered seven children by her.
その男は警察によりヨーゼフ・フリッツルと特定され、エリーザベト・フリッツルという名の自身の娘が11歳のときに性的虐待を開始し、彼女による7人の子供をもうけたとされている。