The trial of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man charged with crimes against the children he kept and abused for years in a cellar, has resumed in St Poelten.
For a second day, the 73-year-old entered court with his face obscured from view behind a blue folder.
The court is to hear more videotaped evidence from his daughter, who was allegedly locked up for 24 years.
Mr Fritzl has pleaded guilty to incest and "partially" guilty to rape but not guilty to enslavement or murder.
The trial is being held behind closed doors because of the sensitivity of the testimony.
A verdict is expected as early as Thursday, says the BBC's Bethany Bell in St Poelten.
Mr Fritzl is alleged in 1984 to have lured his daughter into a cellar with windowless soundproofed chambers beneath their house, to have imprisoned her there and raped her repeatedly over a number of years.
Defence lawyer Rudolf Mayer argued his client was "a human being not a monster" and he appealed to jurors to be objective.
He added that his client was hiding his face from the media because he was embarrassed.
Hard to prove?
On the trial's opening day, the court began viewing 11 hours of video, with the rest of the material to be shown in segments during the week.
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