Man says he locked up mom before daughter

AMSTETTEN, Austria, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The Austrian man accused of keeping his daughter a sexual prisoner for 24 years told a psychologist he also imprisoned his mother until she died.

Josef Fritzl admitted locking his own mother in a bricked-up room in the same house where he later incarcerated his daughter, with whom he fathered several children, The Daily Telegraph reported Thursday.

"I locked her up in a room at the top of the house. I then bricked in the window so that she never again saw the light of day," Fritzl said in the leaked report.

His mother could have been hidden for more than 20 years in the house in Amstetten, an Austrian tabloid said. Fritzl reportedly told the psychologist that he wanted to punish his mother for a loveless, brutal childhood, the British newspaper said.

Fritzl is expected to go to trial in February on charges of allegedly imprisoning his daughter in a dungeon beneath his home for 24 years and forcing her to bear seven of his children, one of whom died.

Fritzl also told the psychologist that he was "born to be a rapist," the 130-page report by Dr. Adelheid Kastner of the Wagner-Jauregg mental health facility in Linz indicated. Kastner said Fritzl wasn't insane, but did pose a danger to the public and should be imprisoned.