Psychologists were also available to Elisabeth's adult brothers and sisters, as well as the classmates of the three children allowed to lead "normal lives", Lenze said. The women and all the children face several weeks of treatment, Hans-Heinz Lenze, head of social services in Amstetten, told a news conference. Three other children were legally adopted by Josef Fritzl and lived with him and his wife Rosemarie upstairs in the family home, totally unaware of the fate of their siblings imprisoned in the cellar below. Three of the surviving children had never left the three cramped underground rooms where they were held and had never seen natural daylight. One of the seven children she bore during her 24 years in captivity died shortly after birth. Elisabeth Fritzl, now 42, and her children, are sequestered "in a treatment container that can be locked from the inside" to shield them from the outside world, child and youth pyschologist Paulus Hochgatterer told Austrian television. "We're talking about Josef Fritzl, 73," he added. "The DNA tests provided decisive evidence that the six children that Elisabeth gave birth to have the same father," chief investigator Franz Polzer told a press conference. Fritzl appeared in court to be remanded in custody while doctors shielded Elisabeth Fritzl and her six surviving children in isolation from a world they barely know. DNA tests on Tuesday confirmed that 73-year-old Josef Fritzl is the father of the children his daughter bore while a prisoner in a cellar for nearly a quarter of a century, investigators said.
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