I find it impossible to believe that the mother of imprisoned Elisabeth Fritzl had no idea that something strange was happening in her house.

How could her evil husband, Josef Fritzl, 73, sneak in food and clothing for his daughter and three captive children over 24 years without her noticing anything odd?

And what about good old-fashioned woman’s intuition, did Rosemarie Fritzl really believe her pretty daughter had simply vanished from their home in Austria and had no suspicions at all? Was she also a victim of her husband’s abusive and controlling character?

How many women turn a blind eye when their husbands abuse their innocent daughters, and the helpless, young girl knows she will not be believed? Fritzl is reported to have begun abusing his daughter Elisabeth from the time she was 11 years old.

Fritzl has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a windowless cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, one of whom died. The electrical engineering technician would enter the basement prison through a small hidden door at his home, opened by a secret keyless entry code.

I wonder what would have happened to those pitiful, helpless prisoners if their wicked captor had died suddenly, would they simply have been left to rot in the cellar?