Feel Safer Now?

[A] neighbour … helped Elisabeth [Fritzl] to run away to Vienna but the teenager was tracked down by police and brought back to Amstetten at her fathers behest

write the Times' Roger Boyes and Bojan Pancevski (emphasis mine).

Elisabeth was repeatedly raped by her father. She could not take it to live at home anymore and tried to escape, [Sepp] Leitner told the Austrian private television channel ATV.

She had taken sleeping pills and went to Vienna. But the police found her and they, or her father, brought her back home. Mr Leitner did not explain why he and the unnamed neighbour failed to alert the police about Elisabeths plight, though he hinted darkly at their fear of the landlords revenge. Mr Leitner said that he was still tormented by nightmares.

And (drumbeat)… the money quote:

I took care of them all, Mr Frizl told police in his first (and only) interrogation. I meant well.

PS: Needless to say, the Incest Monster does not deserve to go to jail…