Dungeon daughter to give TV interview

Accused father ... Josef Fritzl

THE Austrian woman held captive and sexually abused by her father for 24 years will give her first interview about the ordeal next week on Austrian TV.

Elisabeth  Fritzl will be inteviewed on Monday night about the sex slavery she endured at the hands of her father Josef, 73, Britain`s Daily Mail reported.

Ms Fritzl is expected to talk about how her father raped her and how she gave birth to his children in her dungeon underneath the family home. 

Three of Ms Fritzl`s surviving children were taken to live with the family upstairs, while two lived with her in captivity as she despaired of ever seeing the sun again.

She may also divulge how she felt after a stillborn child was allegedly burned in a a stove by her father and her hopes that she and her children can enjoy a more normal future.

Ms Fritzl may have to wear tinted glasses for the interview to cope with the high-powered studio lights as her eyes are reported to be weak from years of being forced to live in semi-darkness.

Christoph Feurstein, the interviewer who spoke to another Austrian abduction victim Natascha Kampusch about the eight and a half years she was imprisoned in a cellar, will talk to Ms Fritzl.

After protracted negotiations Ms Fritzl could make millions of  dollars in syndicated rights for the interview with Austrian ORF TV. 

More than 300 TV stations were likely to broadcast it.

Ms Fritzl is recuperating is a secure ward at Amstetten-Mauer hospital with her mother Rosemarie, 69, and five of her six children.

Her eldest daughter Kerstin, 19, is still in a coma. 

Josef is undergoing police DNA tests in relation to the unsolved murders of three women in Austria.

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