Birthing Her Father’s Children
In the 24 years that Josef kept Liesl in the basement, she would go on to birth 7 children under his grotesque imprisonment. And all 7 children were products of the worse kind of incest. In 1989, Elisabeth bore her first daughter Kerstin, then in 1990, her son Stefan came along. After which, Elisabeth had Lisa in 1993, but rather than keep her in the basement, Josef decided to take the baby at 9 months old, and leave her on the steps of their house for Elisabeth’s parents to “find.” Josef forced Liesl to write another note explaining that this was her daughter, but she wasn’t in the right place to care for her. And due to Austrian law, which erases past convictions, Josef and Rosemarie were able to adopt the child, despite Josef’s past rape sentence.
