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...report to prosecutors suggest that personal, rather than societal, causes were behind Fritzl's crimes. Fritzl's actions, the report said, can be partly attributed to the abuse he suffered as a child. "His story describes an unpredictable atmosphere with humiliating and unprovoked attacks from his mother," psychiatrist Adelheid Kastner wrote in her 130-page report. "His childhood made him susceptible to an emotional handicap; [he felt] the need to possess an entire human being." (See photos of Austria's house of horrors...
...Fritzl reportedly blamed his behavior not on his upbringing but on an innate "evil streak" that he battled against his whole life. "I was born to rape, and I held myself back for a relatively long time," Fritzl reportedly told Kastner. "I could have behaved a lot worse than locking up my daughter...
...Kastner's report, a portion of which was leaked to Austria's Oesterreich newspaper on Wednesday, also contains more troubling details of Fritzl's crime. The 73-year-old deliberately never looked his daughter in the face while he was raping her, the report says, and purposefully shunned contraceptives "so that she would always stay with me, because as a mother of six, she would no longer hold any attraction for other...
...Fritzl also told Kastner that he would punish his imprisoned family by turning off the cellar lights (the shelter was windowless) or withholding food for several days. He taunted his children with photographs of other kids playing outside in the sun. (Read a TIME story on the Fritzl case...
...From these and other details, Kastner diagnosed Fritzl with severe combined personality disorder and a serious sexual disorder, although she also found him sane enough for a criminal trial due to start in the coming months. According to her report, Kastner recommends that Fritzl remain in psychiatric care for the rest of his life, regardless of the outcome of his prosecution. Kastner believes Fritzl, who carries a conviction from a rape of a nurse in 1967, will always be a danger to society...