http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/38944/CELLAR-KIDS-MOVE-TO-UK/
Elisabeth Fritzl and the three children believe Brits are sympathetic to them.
It is also unlikely they will choose a hot country because of their sensitive skin and eyes.
Elisabeth, 42, was imprisoned in her father Josef’s cellar and raped for 24 years.
She gave birth to seven children fathered by Fritzl, 73, and three of them spent their whole lives underground until their escape last month.
Another three children – Lisa, 16, Monika, 14, and Alexander, 12, – were raised by their grandparents and another died shortly after birth.
Elisabeth and the three basement kids – Kerstin, 19, Stefan, 18, and Felix, six – have been in a secure clinic as they recover from their ordeal.
The three youngsters had never seen daylight until last month and doctors say they will have to protect their pale skin and sensitive eyes for the rest of their lives.
Therapists have also revealed the children communicate using animal-like grunt noises.
But despite making good progress, the cellar family have been hounded by the Austrian media and have become “virtual prisoners” again in the clinic.
Security has been stepped up at the hospital in Amstetten following clashes involving journalists and photographers.
Their lawyer Christoph Herbert said: “They are being hunted by the media. The family cannot live a normal life in Austria, therefore they’ll probably have to move to a nearby country, close enough to go home yet far enough to not be recognised.
“I won’t ever tell anyone which country they choose as the family wants to live a normal, peaceful life.
“I’m looking at the options and weighing up opportunities.”
Another reason for the family changing their names and leaving Austria is to escape basement beast Fritzl forever.
Elisabeth made Austrian police promise the family would never have to see him again before telling her horrific story.
She is expected to be allowed to take all six children when she moves and Fritzl’s wife Rosemarie could also join them.
One source said: “The idea would be to keep the family together now they have been reunited.
“Rosemarie had no idea of the evil crimes her husband was committing.”
But Rosemary did know alot of things here, things that were suspcious,things that were darn near unbelievable. She knew those doorstep babies were odd, she knew there were sounds under her home. She knew her husband was building under the house. She knew he was gone at night and bringing back supplies going under the house. And I just bet this guy was a drinker and said stuff and made threats. I just bet she knew he was up to something and I suspect the family secret stuff was beaten into her. She is part of the mystery of all this suffering and we women get that.
they really should live in Canada
Giving Rosemarie the benefit of the doubt: As the rest of the information comes in, we learn that his paranoid behavior regarding his basement was not an anomaly, but totally consistent with his other behaviors. Apparently this man had a constant assortment of creepy conduct, enough to keep anyone around him off balance. In fact, an open door policy as to his “retreat” would have been out of character. Even his obsession with having nobody close to the door of the basement was consistent with his other paranoid behaviors, and wouldn’t stand out as it would with an otherwise ordinarily behaved person.
It is a well known concept in psychology that the family of a seriously mentally ill patient will be less likely to bring him or her to the hospital than the family of a less seriously ill patient–the first family’s perception of what is unusual behavior has become skewed by long experience.
The creep was abusive to Rosemarie as well, and their children, most of whom eventually left home, and the three “upstairs” children. She is said to have had high standards of care and housekeeping. In her 50s and 60s, she was raising three babies and small children. She worked outside the home. Although he took the money from tenants of their various properties, her sister has said (and who would doubt) that Rosemarie did the cleaning and maintenance of the cottages. In fact, she lived in one for nine years, avoiding him, until he burned it down around her–one of the three arson counts. Thereafter, they were (according to her sister) estranged in the same house, making his time in his “workshop” less unusual. And she was terrified of him; probably during his absences, she was just relieved that he wasn’t there. None of this is conducive to noticing, brainstorming, and evaluating unexpected happenings unless they are VERY intrusive.
And remember, it wasn’t just the family, there were tenants living in the “house.” Any small sounds that escaped would not seem unusual to tenants or family; there had to be little sounds from the other households all the time, off and on.
It is tempting, of course, to look back in hindsight and ask why none of the family, the tenants, the neighbors realized anything guessed what was going on. But frankly, none of them–nobody, almost, in the world–could have imagined the situation, or anything near it. It was ‘way outside any normal person’s bizarreness index. It’s too bad–ordinary criminal behavior would have been much more likely to be detected.