Cellar victim Elisabeth banishes her mother as Fritzl women fall out over incest children

Elisabeth, 42, is furious that three of the children born to her during her captivity in the cellar keep referring to Rosemarie, 69, as 'mother', Austrian media report.

The three were taken away from Elisabeth by her father Josef - her depraved captor - and brought up above ground by him and Rosemarie.

Rift: Elisabeth is furious that three of her children call Rosemarie, right, 'mother'

Elisabeth is also dealing with the huge issue of Rosemarie's passiveness during her own childhood. She says brutal Fritzl began abusing her when she was just 11 years old.

Everything came to a head at the weekend in the 200 square metre villa that the family are now sharing - Elisabeth, Rosemarie, her three cellar offspring and the three 'upstairs' children.

She ordered her mother to leave. With no money, cut off from her family and with her 74-year-old husband in jail awaiting charges that will certainly see him imprisoned for life, Rosemarie is said to be shattered.

Doctors say that Rosemarie - married for 52 years to Fritzl even though he was imprisoned early on in their marriage for raping a nurse - is perhaps the most severely disturbed of all the family members.

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Family lawyer Christoph Herbst said at the time: 'She has lost the centre of her world.

'Her life was never that good but she always had the children, and she had to be strong and be there for them, no matter how bad things were at home.

'Now she is no longer the key figure in the children's lives because their mother has returned and at the same time she also has to deal with the knowledge of the awful revelations of what had happened to her daughter Elisabeth over all these years.'

Elisabeth disappeared from the family home in Amstetten when she was 18. Rosemarie accepted her husband's lies that their daughter had run away to join a cult.

In truth, Fritzl had built a secret dungeon beneath the family home where he kept Elisabeth as a sex slave for 24 long years.

She bore him seven children, one of whom died shortly after birth and whose corpse he burned in the central heating stove.

'I thought Elisabeth had joined the sect,' she told police, convincing them that she knew nothing about her daughter's ordeal.

She was moved into the psychiatric hospital with Elisabeth and the incest children after Fritzl's secret cellar was discovered in April this year.

One newspaper claims that Elisabeth is not convinced her mother knew nothing about her childhood abuse by Fritzl in the family home.

Rosemarie returned to the dungeon house a month ago to collect toys and possessions from the cellar.

But she is reportedly too scared to live in the rambling 66-room house on her own, sealed as it is with police tape as a crime scene location and emptied of lodgers.

'She has no idea where to go or what to do,' said a family friend. 'She is shattered.'

There was no immediate word today from the family lawyer about reports of the rift.