Woman locked in Brazil house for 20 years

Source: Antara\AFP

Sao Paulo (ANTARA News/AFP) - Police in Brazil said Friday they had freed a 45-year-old woman who had been locked in a house for 20 years with no communication with the outside world.

Police in the state of Parana said the woman was locked in the home by her partner, a 60-year-old man, in the city of Mariluz, 550 kilometers (340 miles) from the state capital Curitiba.

Following a complaint by social workers, police arrived at the house to find it closed but heard the voice of a woman who appeared to be calling for help, a police statement said.

Police Lieutenant Denis Wellington Viana said the woman told a psychologist later that "she was prohibited from any form of communication" and had to perform household chores.

Read more: http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/1296881023/woman-locked-in-brazil-house-for-20-years

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Ok this falls in the category of really weird, and didn't we have a similar story (plot as it were, but with a daughter) in Germany not so long ago?

That would be Australia. :P

..and they say Americans are geographically ignorant.

edit: Clarify state.

;-)

Here, this might help explain my answer:

1. http://www.google.com/images?q=Fritzl+Australia


2. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/basement-dad-josef-fritzl

Fritzl was Austrian (just like Hitler) not Australian (where the 'roos live)

I agree though, that u have proven your point

:evilgrin:

How horrifying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzl_case

The Fritzl case emerged in April 2008 when a 42-year-old woman, Elisabeth Fritzl (born April 6, 1966), stated to police in the town of Amstetten, Austria, that she had been held captive for 24 years in a concealed corridor part of the basement area of the family home, a condominium-style apartment complex built by her father, Josef Fritzl (born April 9, 1935), and that Fritzl had physically assaulted, sexually abused, and raped her numerous times during her imprisonment. The incestuous relationship forced upon her by her father resulted in the birth of seven children and one miscarriage.

The news came just a week after Brazilian authorities released a mentally disturbed woman imprisoned in her husband`s squalid cellar for eight years in another part of Brazil. Also, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=296183 was about a woman who was held for 16 years.

I hope this guy lives a long life in a Brazilian prison.

had effectively been imprisoned in a shed behind a house. She had been kidnapped by her abuser (a stranger) when she was younger. The child was the offspring of the abuser.

She was kept back there for 18 years.