Cellar girl Kerstin Fritzl wakes from seven-week coma Print E-mail
Tuesday, 10 June 2008

London, June 10 (ANI): Cellar girl Kerstin Fritzl was reunited with her mother Elisabeth and rest of her family for the first time since being freed, after waking from a seven-week coma.

Kerstin, along with Elisabeth and two brothers, was imprisoned from birth by her father Josef Fritzl.

The 19-year-old has been moved to a hospital where the rest of her family are recovering, reports the Telegraph.

Doctors were unsure how Kerstin would react when she woke from her coma and were keen to make sure the family was reunited as soon as she became conscious.

Medics put Kerstin into an induced coma to allow her to recover and have been preparing for her to wake to an entirely new life.

As soon as it was clear she was awake they moved her as fast as possible to be reunited with her mother and brother's in a special room designed to recreate the cellar environment at the Amstetten-Mauer clinic.

According to the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF's Lower Austrian regional studio, the teenager was transferred to her mother's side before the move was made public.

Apart from her mother, the only people she had seen before were her two brothers Steven, 18, Felix, five, and her jailor father Fritzl, 73.

She has never met siblings Lisa, 16, Monika, 14, and Alexander, 12, who were taken upstairs as babies by Fritzl.

Kerstin had been kept sedated since mid-April after suffering multiple organ failure.

Dungeon dad's daughter wants him to face trial as soon as possible

London, June 10 (ANI): Dungeon dad Josef Fritzl's daughter has produced her testimony to the police to ensure that he faces trial as soon as possible.

Elizabeth made this move as her eldest daughter Kerstin, the 19-year-old girl who was born in the underground cellar, woke from her coma.

Sources have revealed that, initially, doctors were not allowing cops interaction with Elisabeth over her 24 years of rape and imprisonment.

However, Elizabeth decided to talk to the police after realising that her father would not face trial until she gave her statement, added the sources.

"She's determined to ensure her father, who may claim he is too ill to go on trial, doesn't escape justice," British tabloid The Sun quoted an insider as saying.

Kerstin has now been allowed to live with Elisabeth, while the latter's six other children are still being treated in the clinic.

Fritzl, who locked Elisabeth in a cellar in Amstetten, Austria, is in a remand cell. (ANI)

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