Do you believe that Elisabeth Fritzl's mother had no idea about the dungeon?

Question

Do you believe that Elisabeth Fritzl's mother had no idea about the dungeon?

Answer 1

If she remained married to this autocratic pig then she was under his total control and even if she felt there was something odd happening, would not have had the courage to do something about it. A mother always knows what is happening to her child at core level, and if I was Elizabeth's mother, I would never accept that she had just wondered off somewhere. I'd be looking for her day and night. I thing on a spiritual level she knew, but was too afraid to explore things further due to a slow erosion of her self esteem at the hands of an evil husband.

Answer 2

i think she knew.

consider these facts

1) she knew she was living with a convicted rapist.

2) how did she miss 7 years of abuse since this same rapist would frequently be alone with her one daughter yet she never questions it as strange

3) she never lets slip once in those years and afterwards to kids or police abt their dads record why if she had nothing to hide and was convinced he had nothing to do with daughters disappearance

4) also after the disappearance suddenly the trips down to the cellar increase where shes never allowed to go.

5) also human curiosity dictates i mean come on if your husband visited a locked room in your house so often yet you were never allowed to go wouldn't u once try to check whats going on in there unless u already had an idea and was scared of what you'd find

6) why did all these mysterious things elisabeths disappearance, children appearing on the doorstep always happen when she was out and husband was there alone

7) all the stuff he took done to the basement, washing machine, tv, wouldn't your husband taking a washing machine down to the cellar make you curious especially when there already was a washing machine in the main house.

8) the police in austria believing she had nothing to do with it only makes me more convinced of her guilt since they believed a convicted rapist three times and returned elisabeth when she ran away to her father twice. also the laws in austria allow one to be jailed for two years for rape thats ridiculous in my opinion if they jailed him for the first conviction for 30 years at least elisabeth would have been safe so they failed elisabeth too

9) also this no name cult most moms and dads whose children genuinely go missing (and they have nothing to do with it) never rest till they find their kids they follow up every lead even false ones

10) here she believes supposedly  her daughters in this cult yet she never tries to investigate or even hire a private investigator to find the name of the cult her daughters in surely any concerned parent would do this at least if u genuinely believed this story

11) also in those four weeks he was away why didn't she go to the cellar then surely as i said b4 human curiosity at least would make one check especially if the person was away and then just to clean the cellar i mean in four weeks she never found a reason to visit the cellar why i say its cos she knew.

12) also on the finances i mean he was feeding 4 extra people how could she miss him taking bags down food at least not one year but 24 years and the finances how did he account for this

13) and the cult thing as someone else said once which cult doesn't believe in indoctrinating their members from birth i mean every cult i've ever heard of prefers this since you can  indoctrinate the kids easier since they young. i mean this story goes against classic cult theory.

14) and why didn't she question anybody else when the babies appeared surely if she believed this story she would question neighbours and people in the area if they'd seen these babies appear i mean someone must have left them their, i mean if she was really looking for her daughter then she had three opportunities to reinvigorate the investigation.

all these facts taken into consideration i think its extremely unlikely that she didn't know

Answer 3

she knew all about it, but was powerless to stop the beast.

Answer 4

She must have known something was up. I mean, he built and outfitted an entire basement. He took food down there, clothes and toys for the kids etc. She would have to have been either deaf, dumb and stupid to not notice anything, or else she was too scared of her husband to question him.

That's the only explanation that makes sense. There is no way she didn't know something was going on.

Answer 5

How could she not not know? She was as sick as her husband. Even if she was living in fear and under his control, she isn't intellectually disabled enough to not make reasonable inquiry. My own grandmother knew of my grandfather's "indiscretions" all along, but worked so hard at acting normal and sweeping everything under the carpet all her life, denying everything to her last breath. It may have kept her sane and made her family look "normal", but she was just as evil as him. Weak and evil.

Answer 6

I think that she had a idea about what was going on... but didn't really care... !!!!

Answer 7

It's VERY hard to believe that she had no idea what was happening in her own house.  Psychologists and psychiatrists will have a field day with this one...did she simply block it out of her own mind as a self-preservation?  The mind is terribly complex.  How sad for all involved.  Has this level of depravity happened throughout human history?  and we only know of it now in the light of mass communication.

Answer 8

In response to another poster, the mother did look for her daughter. She and a sister would frequently visit train or bus stations as well as other public places to look for her. While I don't think the mother is the brightest person in the world, I also believe she didn't know what was going on. The daughter was very well hidden in a basement dungeon. Her holding cell was soundproofed and had eight locked doors. Besides, the police believe she didn't know about it and the daughter herself told them that her mother was not at all involved in it.

Answer 9

The house is not the Palace of Versailles.  It is an ordinary house with the usual nooks and crannies.  To live in the same house for years and with the perpetrator of the crime and later claim total ignorance is patently absurd.  If she was totally ignorant of the goings on, than one can only assume she was a total ignoramus, perhaps even believing that she got pregnant by kissing.   Like the Darwin woman, she's trying to take everyone for a fool, and I feel very sorry for her daughter.  How would you feel if after two decades of torture your mother claimed total ignorance when she shared  the same bed, night after night, with your tormentor?  What would your reaction be if you learned that your mother had been told specifically not to go into the basement and she never bothered to challenge it.  Would you still believe her?  I think not.  

That woman failed in her duty to her child, which is to protect her by being ever-vigilant and watchful of anything and everything around her, even her husband.    But she failed her child miserably and she should be punished for her crimes of omission, so that at least it will be a warning to other blase people who think nothing of sacrificing their children's happiness for their own economic security.

Answer 10

I don't believe it at all. She is just as responsible.

Answer 11

She had to of thought something was amiss. I mean the neighbors thought something was a bit weird-- so I would assume she would as well. But I don't know if she knew exactly what was going on.