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 and selling her to other men as well.
The 29-year-old woman, who has not been named, fled to police in Araucaria, a city in the southern Brazilian state of Parana, on Tuesday, September 16.
She had told the 51-year-old suspect, also not named, she needed to take her three children to a health clinic, but instead went directly to a Civil Police station.
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 and forced her into a relationship.
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.
The victim said: ‘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 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.
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
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.
The woman said of her ordeal: ‘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.’
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.’
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.
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
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.
