A man accused of holding his stepdaughter captive for 22 years and fathering three of her children has denied multiple charges – including chilling claims he forced her to have sex with other men.
‘The abuser denied all the accusations. During questioning at the police station, he said it was all lies and that he lives for his family,’ the police chief in the Brazilian town where the case is unfolding told local media.
The 51-year-old suspect has been in custody since last week, after the 29-year-old victim escaped and told authorities she had been abused by him since she was seven.
Investigators say she endured decades of sexual violence, including being coerced into sex with strangers and watched constantly on surveillance cameras inside the home.
The woman reportedly managed to break free by telling her alleged abuser she needed to visit a health clinic — but instead went straight to police.
The unnamed victim told officers she had noticed ‘strange behavior from him toward her daughters,’ reported O Popular.
Details on the behavior has not been revealed, however, she feared he would do the same thing to her daughters as he had done to her.
Her testimony prompted police to raid a condominium in Araucária, where dramatic footage showed armed officers storming the property and arresting the suspect.
Dramatic footage showed officers storming the property where the stepfather was arrested.
This is the moment armed cops burst into a condominium to arrest a stepfather accused of keeping his stepdaughter imprisoned as a sex slave for 22 years
Police chief Eduardo Kruger said she had been abused since the age of seven, and at 15 became pregnant by the man after he separated from her mother
Police Chief Eduardo Kruger told reporters the victim became pregnant at 16 and was forced to ‘marry’ the man after he separated from her mother.
Investigators said she had three children with him and was also forced to have sex with other men, with the assaults reportedly recorded on video.
‘He forced me to pretend that I wanted it, but the men knew I was being forced there. I lost count. There were more than 30. These episodes happened every two months, every three months,’ the victim said.
The shocking case evokes the horror that Austrian monster Josef Fritzl inflicted on his daughter for 24 years, imprisoning and raping her over and over again and forcing her to give birth to seven incestuous children.
In Brazil this week, police said the suspect monitored his alleged victim’s every move with surveillance cameras installed throughout the house and rarely allowed her to leave.
‘I was scared, very scared, I still am. He said a lot of things to me. He threatened me. He said that if I wasn’t his, I wouldn’t be anyone else’s. He said that our separation would only mean death,’ the woman told police.
While she was giving her statement, he called her more than 30 times and sent over 15 audio messages, some containing threats.
He reportedly said: ‘Go home, otherwise you’re going to have serious problems with me. What’s going on? Talk to me, otherwise I’m coming after you.’
The shocking case evokes the horror that Austrian monster Josef Fritzl (pictured in 2009) inflicted on his daughter for 24 years, imprisoning and raping her over and over again and forcing her to give birth to seven incestuous children
When police stormed the home, they seized cameras and videos of the abuse stored on his mobile phone before arresting him.
He is being held in preventive detention while under investigation for seven crimes, including rape, deprivation of liberty, threats, and psychological violence.
If convicted, the combined sentences could exceed 100 years in prison.
The victim and her children have been placed in a safe location while protective measures are considered.
Fritzl’s name became synonymous with unimaginable cruelty in 2008, when it emerged he had locked his daughter Elisabeth in a hidden dungeon beneath his home in Amstetten, Lower Austria, from the age of 18.
Over nearly a quarter of a century, he repeatedly raped her, fathering seven children -one of whom died in infancy, with prosecutors arguing he was partly responsible for the death through neglect.
Fritzl was eventually convicted of murder, rape, incest, slavery and severe coercion – becoming the only person in Austrian history ever convicted of slavery.
