Often we will call it sick as if pills will fix the perpetrators. If someone rapes a twelve year old and burns her and buries her in a hole filled with crabs - what will we call that - sick? Then pills should cure him. But they won't. He (the perpetrator), like the family of Ondrej Mauerova and Josef Fritzl - all qualify as evil.
We can set aside demons and Satan, but they are regardless of ones position on religion - evil.
So why do we search out these stories, and there are thousands of updates on Fritzl and others (Ondrej Mauerova) available online. Why such an audience? And how does one become an evil-doer? What makes you do it? Do they realize what they do repulses 6 billion people on earth and nearly that many would give anything to rip their hearts out and stomp on them.
What the story of Ondrej Mauerova and Fritzl (and others) is we do find the perpetrators, eventually. They will die either at the hands of the state or their bunk buddy in prison.
In any case - justice will be served, and it won't be on a plate.
It doesn't answer though, why we are so fascinated by evil.
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From The Times
June 12, 2008
Josef Fritzl's oldest child reunited with family - and keen to go to a Robbie Williams concert
Bojan Pancevski in Amstetten
The oldest child that Josef Fritzl fathered by his own daughter is on the road to recovery, has been reunited with her family and the first thing she asked for after a lifetime of being held in a dank cellar was to go to a Robbie Williams concert.
Doctors treating the family have described the “emotional reunion” as well as the dramatic moment when the 19-year-old awakened after more than a month in a coma.
Albert Reiter, who has been in charge of Ms Fritzl’s treatment, told a press conference on Tuesday: “She opened her eyes for the first time at 9am on May 15 and slowly started showing signs of emotional reaction. We smiled at her and she smiled back. Later I said ‘Hi’ to her and she replied with a ‘Hello’. It was an intensely dramatic moment.
“I am especially proud that [she] could walk the distance to her new residence and into her new life,” Dr Reiter added. Ms Fritzl saw daylight for the first time in her life after she awakened in the intensive care ward of the Amstetten regional hospital. According to Dr Reiter, the first wish that she expressed to her carers was to go on a boat trip and to attend a Robbie Williams concert.
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Josef Fritzl to see 'dungeon family' for first time since arrest
By Andreas Sam in Vienna
Last Updated: 1:44AM BST 09/06/2008
Josef Fritzl is to see his "dungeon family" for the first time since his arrest, when his daughter presents evidence on her 24-year ordeal of sex abuse and imprisonment.
Elisabeth Fritzl, 42, will be questioned by a judge, prosecutors and her father's lawyer in a court session which will be beamed to her father via video link.
Doctors treating Elisabeth Fritzl and her children have confirmed that following a month of therapy her condition has improved drastically and that she would be able to give evidence, although it is possible that a psychiatrist would be present during the questioning, which is due to happen in early July.
Her children, aged five to 19, will also be questioned at a later stage.
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