London: Elisabeth Fritzl, an 42-year-old daughter who was held imprisoned, abused and raped in a cellar for 24 years by her father Josef Fritzl in Australia, has reportedly fallen in love with her bodyguard.
According to a report in Austria's leading newspaper Oesterreich, Elisabeth has struck up in a relationship with the man identified as Thomas W, after they spent months together in their new home at Perg, following her release from a mental health clinic.
Thomas W was assigned to guard Elisabeth and the six children she bore by her dungeon dad while she was imprisoned in the cellar at their home in the Austrian town of Amstetten, for over 24 years, The Daily Telegraph reported.
"They are a couple. Everyone saw from the beginning how secure she felt with him, a source close to Elisabeth was quoted by an Austrian newspaper.
In fact, the relationship is said to have given her renewed strength and she is currently taking driving lessons while spending many hours a week in therapy to help her cope up with the posttraumatic stress of her ordeal.
Elisabeth was 18 when she was drugged by her father and imprisoned in a windowless dungeon he constructed beneath the family home in the Austrian town of Amstetten, which is two hours of driving distance from Vienna.
For 24 years, he raped her estimated 3,000 times. She had seven children in the darkness, one among seven died three days after birth. Her father freed her in April last year after her daughter Kerstin, 19, fell gravely ill.
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