Dungeon dad Fritzl trial date set
Josef Fritzl The trial date for dungeon dad, Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned his daughter for 24 years is set for March 16, a court in Austria said.
Fritzl, 73 has been accused of keeping his daughter as a sex slave for 24 years and has been charged with murder, enslavement, rape, incest and false imprisonment, the BBC reported.
He has confessed to imprisoning and raping his daughter Elisabeth, and fathering her seven children. He does however deny murdering one of the children. The child, one of twins, died just after birth and he burned the body.
It is estimated that the trial will take about a week, court spokesman Franz Cutka told AFP.
A psychiatrist's report last October said he was mentally fit to stand trial.
He is currently in a pre-trial detention in St Poelten, 80km (50 miles) west of the Austrian capital, Vienna.
The horrendous story of the incest family turned everyone's attention to the gross negligence by the local authorities in failing to show any curiosity about Elisabeth's disappearance back in 1984. That was when Fritzl locked his daughter in the cellar and claimed that she had run off to join a sect.
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The trial been scheduled for an Austrian man who admitted to keeping his daughter prisoner in a dungeon for 24 years and fathering 7 of her children. A court in Austria released a statement saying the trial is set to begin on March 16 and last one week.

Josef Fritzl, 73, allegedly began imprisoning and raping his daughter Elisabeth, now 42, on August 8, 1984. He lured her to the basement where she was locked in a room, handcuffed and drugged. He is charged with incest, false imprisonment, murder, rape and the enslavement. The murder charge stems from allegations that Fritzl murdered a twin of one of the children. He then disposed of the body by placing the corpse into a turned on oven, burning the body. Police say the child had died shortly after being born. Fritzl has pled guilty to all of the charges except murder.
Map highlighting location of Amstetten. 
Police became suspicious when a 19-year-old daughter, Kerstin, was taken to hospital with a mysterious life-threatening illness, and the family's medical records were checked. Police say that Elisabeth F. appeared to be "greatly disturbed" psychologically, and only agreed to talk after the authorities assured her that she would not have to have contact with her father, and that her children would be cared for. When authorities arrived at his home, Fritzl told police what he had done. Of the surviving six children, there are three boys and three girls, between 5 and 20 years old.

Fritzl was arrested on April 27, 2008, in his home in Amstetten and if convicted, he would spend the rest of his life behind bars. He is currently in a prison located in the Lower Austrian city of Sankt Pölten where he is awaiting trial.