Josef Fritzl, the 73-year-old Austrian man who imprisoned his daughter in his home, raped her, and fathered seven children with her over a period of 24 years, came forward after one of the children fell gravely ill and had to be hospitalized. He will be tried for rape, the severest of his crimes under Austrian law.

By now you have heard about the Austrian man who locked his daughter in the basement, where she has been for the last 24 years, and raped her on a regular basis, producing as many as seven children with her.