THE Austrian incest victim Elisabeth Fritzl has ordered her mother, Rosemarie, out of the villa they have been sharing at a psychiatric clinic.
She is reported to be angry that three of her cellar children who were raised "upstairs" with her father and Rosemarie, 69, still refer to her as "mother" rather than "grandmother"
She is also battling with the issue of her mother's passiveness d
uring her upbringing – she says her brutal father, Josef, now 74, began abusing her when she was just 11 years old.
Everything came to a head in the 200sq metre villa shared by Elisabeth, her mother, her three cellar children and her three "upstairs" offspring.
She ordered her mother to leave. With no money, cut off from her family and with her husband in jail awaiting charges that will certainly see him imprisoned for life, Rosemarie is said to be shattered.
She has been married to Fritzl for 52 years – even though he was jailed early on in their marriage for raping a nurse – and doctors say she is perhaps the most severely disturbed of all the family members.
She returned to the dungeon house a month ago to collect toys and possessions from the cellar. But she is reportedly too scared to live in the rambling 66-room house on her own, sealed as it is with police tape as a crime scene.
Elisabeth disappeared from the family home in Amstetten when she was 18. Rosemarie bought into her husband's lies that she had run away to join a cult. In truth, he had built a secret dungeon beneath the building where he kept her for 24 years. She bore him seven children, one of whom died shortly after birth and whose corpse he burned in the central- heating stove.
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