The eldest child of an incestuous relationship between Austrian Josef Fritzl and the daughter he confined for 24 years, has been reunited with her family after recovering from an artificial coma.
Fritzl has been in custody since the case was exposed in April
"The reunion of Kerstin with her family a few days ago was a moving moment, and for us the surprising recuperation of Kerstin was a great relief," Berthold Kepplinger, director of the hospital where Fritzl's victims have been treated, said.
Kerstin - the eldest child that Fritzl fathered with daughter Elisabeth - was expected to "make a full recovery", he said.
Doctors said today that the whole family - Fritzl's daughter Elisabeth and the six surviving of seven children she bore him while locked in a cellar - had been moved into a house on hospital premises to promote a normal living environment.
Fritzl, in custody since the case was exposed in April, kept his daughter in a secret, windowless basement under his house in the central Austrian town of Amstetten.
Three of the children of the incestuous relationship, the youngest of whom is now aged five years, were locked up with their mother, while another three were raised by Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie as their own. One child died shortly after birth.
Prosecutors are investigating the 73-year-old for coercion, rape, incest and the death of the baby, though he has not been charged. Police say he has admitted incarceration and incest. Rosemarie is not under suspicion.