Austrian father pleads guilty

The Austrian man accused of imprisoning his daughter and fathering her children, has pleaded guilty to rape and incest.



Josef Fritzl is also accused of murder by neglect of one of his daughter\'s children.



However, he has pleaded not guilty this morning to that charge and also enslavement during the beginning of his trial in the city of St Poelten.



Its reported that in 1984 Fritzl lured his daughter into a cellar with windowless soundproof chambers beneath their house and then raped her repeatedly.



The daughter and three of her seven children were kept captive in the cellar until the case came to light in April last year when one of the children became seriously ill and was taken to hospital.



Legal experts have said it may be hard to prove the murder charge but the charge of enslavement carries a maximum penalty of 20 years.



Some of the other charges against him carry a sentence of up to 15 years.