‘Brazil’s Josef Fritzl’ kept wife & 7 kids, aged 3 to 22, prisoner for 20 YEARS raping them & burying foetuses in garden

A DAD has been arrested aft allegedly keeping his woman and 7 children captive successful a crumbling location for 2 decades.

The 52-year-old allegedly raped them repeatedly, forced abortions, and buried the foetuses successful the family's garden.

The horrifying ordeal unfolded successful the tiny municipality of Novo Oriente, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Authorities were alerted aft 1 of the man's daughters, successful a hopeless bid for freedom, drugged him with sleeping pills and managed to escape.

She reported the alleged maltreatment to police, who conducted a month-long investigation earlier storming the property.

Police uncovered 3 buried foetuses successful the garden, with 1 astir full-term astatine 8 months old.

The man's wife, reportedly 40, claims that she has endured this nightmare since she was conscionable 17.

Allegedly forced to acquisition 3 abortions, she said she had nary prime but to unrecorded successful fear.

Investigators discovered that 1 of the daughters besides survived a harrowing failed termination erstwhile her six-month-old foetus was rescued by a midwife.

Despite the child’s mediocre health, the begetter allegedly refused immoderate aesculapian help.

Seven children, aged 3 to 22, were rescued, and the probe revealed further horrors.

Police accidental the fishy had sexually abused not lone his daughters but besides his precocious mother-in-law.

He besides reportedly drilled holes successful the walls to spy connected his daughters arsenic they dressed and bathed.

The unnamed antheral is present successful preventive custody, charged with mendacious imprisonment, rape, intelligence violence, abortion, and concealing corpses.

The victims person been relocated to a antithetic authorities for their protection.

Police spokesperson Herika Ribeiro Sena said the wife, present safe, was lone ever allowed to permission the location to person benefits, often nether the suspect’s watchful eye.

"None of the neighbours knew her, not adjacent relatives had entree to her," Sena said.

The probe continues arsenic authorities portion unneurotic the afloat grade of the horror.