In for a penny

I hear Josef Fritzl - the man who kept his daughter locked in the cellar of his house for 24 years, and had seven children by her (while still living with her mother, of course) - has been charged with murder today.

Murder?
Yes: murder.


Apparently - that's according to the CNN correspondent - the authorities wanted to pin on him something that would get him into prison for as long as possible... And so they concentrated on the fact that according to Elisabeth Fritzl, the unfortunate daughter/hostage and mother of the children, one of the seven children born out of her incestuous "relationship" with her father died as a baby; and Fritzl is said to have burned the body. 

It seems clear that father Fritzl did not immediately cause the death of the child; but according to the prosecutor, the child appears to have had "a chance of surviving" (just how they determined this is not yet clear to me), but Fritzl prevented timely access to proper medical help.

That- if proven of course - should take care of their main concern (again, according to the CNN correspondent): that Fritzl gets a maximum jail sentence.

Because, apparently, having locked his daughter in a cellar, raping her repeatedly and producing children with her (most of whom also did not see the light of day until they were rescued by the police) is not enough to lock him away?

I do hope I got it wrong.
If I have, I'll be more than glad to correct this entry, or delete it entirely.