London, May 12 (ANI): He may be in jail, but dungeon dad Josef Fritzl's cell is far more comfortable than the one in which he kept his daughter Elisabeth, and the children he fathered with her, imprisoned for 24-years.
While all he gave his captive daughter and her children was a TV set with selected channels, Fritzl himself gets a TV, radio, bedside lamp and even pot plants.
And while he's jailed in a 10ft high prison cell at St Poelten jail - 60 miles from his home in Amstetten, Austria, - his underground dungeon with its labyrinth of narrow corridors and tiny chambers was so low that one of Elisabeth's boys, Stefan, has developed a permanently stooped gait
The 73-year-old sex beast is also allowed to take an hour a day of fresh air and exercise - which he refused fearing attacks by inmates - something that he didn't provide for his dungeon family.
While he himself has agreed for a private shower, for safety concerns, the privacy in the cellar was so little that the children saw him raping their mother.
He sleeps on bright and clean jail beddings, in close contrast to the dungeon's stinking mattresses.
It has been revealed that prison nutritionists have selected three healthy balanced dishes a day for Fritzl. But his family ate only ready cooked meals with a long sell-by date in order to avoid any suspicions by making constant trips to buy fresh fruit or vegetables.
And if one talks about human contact, Fritzl, after such inhuman handling of his daughter and their kids, still gets to share his cell with a 36-year-old criminal and even requested a visit from wife Rosemarie, 69, last week.
However, Elisabeth had no contact with anyone other than him and the kids she bore because of constant rapes.
Locals at Amstetten have urged the Austrian authorities to demolish the "horror house" belonging to dungeon dad Josef Fritzl.
The residents are stressing that they don't want No.40 Ybbsstrasse "to become a ghoulish shrine" to the incestuous sex fiend, reports Mirror.
They said that the Fritzl's house of horror should be demolished just like the homes of Fred and Rosemary West and other notorious mass murderers.
The residents have already had enough of the rubberneckers who keep staring at the large terrace property.
While the police continue their probe, townsfolk were demanding the tearing down of the Fritzl house.
The property stands on one of the main streets in Amstetten and has an underground cellar, where Fritzl held his daughter Elisabeth Fritzl captive for 24 years and fathered her children through repeatedly sexually assaulting her.
Dungeon Dad's 5-year-old son making remarkable recovery
Elisabeth Fritzl's five-year-old son Felix is making an amazing recovery, say doctors treating him.
The little boy, who had never seen daylight while caged in a windowless underground cellar by father Josef is now showing improvement and has stopped communicating by grunts. He is also walking normally.
"The grunts and growls it was suggested he and his brother Stefan used appear only to have been the excitement of their release," Mirror quoted a source, as saying.
While all the doctors treating Felix are surprised by his ready wit and enthusiasm for everything new in his transformed life, they are captivated by how he reacts to sunlight.
Every morning, with the rising sun, he is seen with a radiant smile wearing his special protective goggles.
Meanwhile, Felix and his mother Elisabeth and his other five siblings are seen bonding like a new family. While three of the kids were caged with their mother, the other three lived upstairs after being adopted by Fritzl and wife Rosemarie.
"Only Elisabeth and Felix have increased photosensitivity and need goggles. The boys are making a good recovery, especially Felix. Both are polite and seem to have had respect instilled into them," Mirror quoted Dr Berthold Kepplinger, senior consultant at the Landesklinikum in Mauer, outside Amstetten, as saying.
He added: "They do exactly what their mother tells them and have the basics of reading and writing. Felix has a keen intelligence which shows with his enthusiasm for everything. We love his wit and outgoing personality." (ANI)
