Cellar incest children return to dungeon

AMSTETTEN, Austria, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Austrian police say Elisabeth Fritzl, imprisoned in a cellar dungeon for 25 years as a sex slave to her father, returned to the dungeon for the first time.

The Austrian newspaper Kurier says police secretly took the woman and three of her children by Joseph Fritzl back to the basement in Amstetten for the first time since their were rescued in April, The Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

The children, Felix, 5, Kerstin, 19, and Stefan, 18, had never been outside of the cellar until the rescue. The newspaper said authorities took them back to the dungeon to illustrate to the children how they had lived during their years in captivity.

The trial of Joseph Fritzl, 72, is scheduled to begin next month. He has put the house up for sale, The Daily Mail said.