The Austrian man who allegedly imprisoned his daughter in a dungeon cellar for 24 years may have started sexually abusing her when she was as young as 12, the chief investigator told The Associated Press Saturday.
Authorities say they expect to receive the alleged abuser Josef Fritzl's old court records early next week that Austrian media say document a 1967 rape allegation.
Police say Fritzl has confessed to fathering seven children with his now 42-year-old daughter Elisabeth, who was locked away aged 18. They say three of the children were hidden in the dungeon of the Amstetten apartment building and that Fritzl confessed to burning the body of one child after it died in infancy. 
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