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Fritzl: The Murder Of Maria Neubauer
On October 6 in 1967, he followed a young mother home. After she’d fallen asleep, he broke into her home. At knife point, he raped her. Her child was asleep next to them in a cot whilst the attack took place. He was arrested and convicted of rape, and served 12-month out of an 18-month prison sentence. And even worse, under Austrian law, unless a crime carries a life sentence, the conviction doesn’t stay on the person’s record. In the eyes of the state, after 15 years, Fritzl had never raped and as far as future victims were concerned, it never happened. Soon after Maria Neubauer was attacked by Fritzl as she returned home from work at the local factory. But he failed to get her to the ground and she managed to fight him off. She reported it

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