The man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children said that he knew his actions were wrong and that he "must have been crazy," according to comments published Thursday.
Josef Fritzl also said in remarks relayed by his lawyer to the Austrian magazine News that he tried to care for his secret family members, taking flowers, books and stuffed toys to them in the dingy dungeon below his home in the town of Amstetten.
The lawyer, Rudolf Mayer, confirmed that Fritzl made the remarks from a prison in the city of St. Poelten, where he is being held in pretrial detention. 
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