Josef Fritzl began sexually abusing his daughter Elisabeth when she was eleven years old.

When she was eighteen he drugged her and imprisoned her in the cellar of her own home. Then he fooled his wife Rosemarie and his other children — Elisabeth’s mother and her siblings — into believing Elisabeth had run away to join a cult, by way of a note he forced Elisabeth to write.

And then Fritzl raped Elisabeth again and again over the following years — decades — and fathered seven children on her, seven children whose father is their rapist, incestuous grandfather.

Three of Elisabeth’s children were ‘abandoned’ by their assumed-to-have-run-away mother and taken in and raised by the rapist and his unsuspecting wife, while the other children remained in this tiny underground prison with their mother. Not only has this monster stolen and ruined Elisabeth’s life, he further defamed her as repeatedly having illegitimate and throw-away children.

How many lives has this monster named Josef Fritzl ruined?

Is there such a thing as adequate punishment for this monster?