A man who kept his wife and seven children prisoner in a dilapidated house for 20 years and raped them before forcing them to have abortions has been arrested after one of his daughters escaped and reported him.
The still unidentified suspect, 54, who lived in Novo Oriente, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, was arrested after one of his daughters gave him sleeping pills so he could escape and report him to the authorities, who carried him out. . a month-long investigation before raiding the property.
Police found three fetuses buried in the garden, and the man’s wife, who is also not named but said to be 40 years old, said she had lived like this since she was 17, a detail that evoked the horrors of the Josef case. Fritzl. in Austria.
He reportedly forced her to undergo three abortions. One of the fetuses that police found buried was about eight months old.
Police also said one of the daughters suffered a botched abortion of a six-month-old fetus. The baby reportedly survived and was rescued by a midwife.
The girl was reportedly in poor health, but her father denied her any medical help.
Authorities conducted a month-long investigation before raiding the property (pictured)
Police rescued seven children between 3 and 22 years old
The still-unnamed suspect, 54, who lived in Novo Oriente, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, was arrested after one of his daughters gave him sleeping pills so she could escape and report him to the authorities.
Police rescued seven children between the ages of 3 and 22 and investigators said the suspect had sexually abused them and his late mother-in-law.
According to police, the suspect sexually abused his daughters and drilled holes in the walls of the house to watch the girls get dressed and bathe.
The suspect is in protective custody and the mother and children have been transferred to another state for their protection.
Police spokesperson Herika Ribeiro Sena said: “The victim only left home to receive benefits and was often accompanied by him.” None of the neighbors knew her, not even her relatives had access to her.’
The man was accused of illegal imprisonment, rape of a vulnerable person, psychological violence, abortion and concealment of a corpse.
The investigation into the shocking case is ongoing.
It evokes the horror that Josef Fritzl inflicted on his daughter for 24 years, imprisoning and raping her again and again and forcing her to give birth to seven incestuous children.
Josef Fritzl during the fourth day of his trial at the St. Poelten rural court in 2009. He was sentenced to life in prison.
The 89-year-old was recently transferred from a maximum security hospital for the criminally insane in Stein to a regular prison.
Fritzl was locked up in 2009 after admitting to raping his daughter Elisabeth (pictured) and fathering seven children with her.
Elisabeth was only 18 years old when she disappeared in 1984 and would not reappear until April 2008, when she was discovered in a clandestine cellar beneath her father’s home in Amstetten, Austria.
Fritzl had intricately created his underground prison, which featured a heavy metal door hidden behind a shelf in his work room.
He had made sure that only he could access it, installing a secret keyless code that only he knew, while his wife and six other children, upstairs, knew nothing about his double life.
He was able to drag his daughter to his lair after knocking his teenage daughter unconscious with a rag soaked in ether. She was supposedly Fritzl’s favorite daughter, and he specifically groomed her to become his sexual partner, after first abusing her when she was just 11 years old.
Elisabeth was manipulated by her father into believing the door was electrified, so she would be killed if she tried to flee the shocking abuse.
Throughout her 24 years in prison, Elisabeth became the mother of seven children, three of whom remained in captivity with her.