Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who fathered seven children with his daughter while keeping her imprisoned in a windowless dungeon in his cellar, has complained about poor media coverage of the case.

JOSEF FRITZL and ROSEMARIE FRITZL are being honoured at their 50 years wedding anniversary in 2006….

JOSEF FRITZL and ROSEMARIE FRITZL are being honoured at their 50 years wedding anniversary in 2006. Josef Fritzl made an astonishing plea for understanding from his cell today saying: “I am not a monster.” The Austrian, who locked up his own daughter in a dungeon for 24 years and subjected her to repeated rapes, claimed he has been unfairly represented by the police and the media. And in a twisted bid for sympathy he argued that he should be held in high regard for not killing Elisabeth, 42, and the children he incestuously fathered on her – Kerstin, 19, Stefan 18 and five-year-old Felix.

(Mark Large/Daily Mail/SOLO Syndication/Zuma Press)

His criticism of the international media’s reporting was published in the German tabloid Bild Zeitung.

“I could have killed them all,” reads the front page headline of today’s Bild Zeitung. And Fritzl, dubbed a monster by the Austrian media, told his lawyer, Rudolf Mayer, “I’m not a monster,” according to today’s report.  Read the entire article HERE AT ABC NEWS

• RAF: Hitler wasn’t a monster, he COULD have killed even more Gypsies, Jews, impaired or otherwise undesirables. Sure, 6 million Jews – but there’s still lots left – right?

• As shocking as Fritzl’s self-justification is – it is no different than yours or mine when we excuse ANY sin on the ground that we could have sinned worse.  Just because the lid is off of Fritzl’s depravity doesn’t mean ours would be any less heinous if it could be brought to the light of day.

• Thank God for His salvation – for the death of His precious Son, which alone can make any man right with God, to stand in His presence unafraid.

• Be repulsed at Fritzl’s obscene admission.

• And then remember what you have been saved from. And weep that his soul might too be rescued in Christ Jesus.

• For you and I were not one iota better. Only less exposed.

1 – “Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that it might not bring me pain!” And God granted what he asked.” (1 Chronicles 4:9-10, ESV)

RAF: Tucked away in the midst of these chapters with their long lists of people we do not and cannot know – about whom we know no more than their being listed here – is this simple reminder: When men call upon the Lord, He hears. And He answers. He is ever willing to meet us if we will but seek Him. Father, grant that I might seek you always and never stop.

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