A 73-year-old Austrian man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, police have said.The head of the criminal affairs bureau in the province of Lower Austria, Franz Polzer, told the BBC that Josef F had confessed during questioning on Monday.
Authorities are caring for the daughter and her six surviving children.
Police have released photos of the man's basement which showed concealed a network of tiny windowless chambers.
The rooms, covering an area of approximately 60 sq-metres were equipped for sleeping and cooking, and with sanitary facilities.
"Everything was very, very narrow and the victim herself, the mother of these six or seven children, told us that this was being continually enlarged over the years," a spokesman said.
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