ST POELTEN, Austria (Reuters) - Josef Fritzl was sentenced to life in a psychiatric hospital on Thursday for locking up and raping his daughter over 24 years, fathering seven children with her, and causing the death of an infant son.
Court officials in St Poelten, west of Vienna, said Fritzl would return to the regional jail for the time being pending transfer to an institution for mentally ill offenders where he could get therapy.
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