Cellar girl Kerstin Fritzl was last night reunited with her mother Elisabeth, and brothers Stefan and Felix after finally coming out of a seven-week coma.
It was the first time the 19 year-old had encountered her family outside the cramped dungeon where she has spent her entire life, apart from the last seven weeks, at the hands of Austrian incest sex monster Josef Fritzl.
The reunion happened shortly after Kerstin finally emerged from the medically-induced coma doctors put her in after she suffered a multiple organ failure following an oxygen deficiency caused by severe cramp attacks.
Doctors had set up the plan in advance knowing that Kerstin had only ever before seen her mother and two brothers, as well as her captor Fritzl, 73, who is in custody awaiting trial.
As soon as it was clear she was awake they moved her to a specal medical ward at Amstteten Regional Clinic to be reunited with her mother and brothers in a special room designed to look like the cellar she has known all her life.
Kerstin who is the oldest of the cellar children was in the coma since she was freed from her dungeon on 19 April.
Medics feared Kerstin - born to Fritzl and his daughter Elisabeth during her 24-year incestuous captivity - would die when her organs stopped working. She was hooked up to a life support machine to keep her vital organs steady.
Last month there were unconfirmed reports she had showed flickers of life and at one point had opened her eyes as she began the slow process of emerging from the coma.
Kerstin became desperately sick after getting no fresh air, light, exercise and proper food for her entire life.
In a rare act of mercy, evil Josef Fritzl chose to release the teenager and take her to hospital after she collapsed in his underground lair.
Kerstin is one of the seven children Fritzl, an engineer and property developer, fathered with his own daughter Elisabeth, 42, whom he kept as his personal sex slave in a purpose-built dungeon beneath his home for over 24 years.
One of the children, a baby boy called Michael, died shortly after birth and Fritzl burned his body in an incinerator.
Fritzl selected three of the children, Lisa, 15, Monika, 14, and Alexander, 12, to live with him and his wife Rosemarie, 68, in their upstairs apartment in the town of Amstetten.
The other three children, Kerstin, Stefan, 18, and Felix, five, were forced to live in the damp cellar beneath with their mother, never seeing the light of day until police revealed the case on April 26.
Elisabeth's mother Rosemarie, 69, has also gathered strength after health problems sparked by revelations of her husband's vile dungeon in Amstetten, Austria.
The family recently symbolised Kerstin's presence by circling her name with a heart in a touching poster of personal messages.
When the teenager fell ill, doctors sent out a national TV appeal to find her mother, who, Fritzl claimed, had run off to a sect.
Unsuspecting Rosemarie was away on holiday in Italy at the time but rushed home to support the children.
The family are expected to stay in their clinic for several months while they adapt to the real world.
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