Wife locked 16 years in basement
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January 29, 2011, Saturday
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A BRAZILIAN man has been arrested on suspicion of keeping his wife locked in a squalid basement for 16 years while he lived with another woman in the same house.
Acting on a tip, police on Wednesday found Sebastiana Aparecida Groppo, 64, in the cellar of the house in the city of Sorocaba in Sao Paulo state.
The floor of the roughly 12-square-meter cellar was littered with feces and dead cockroaches, Sorocaba police inspector Ana Luiza Salomone said on Thursday.
"She was found without clothes, wrapped up in a blanket," said Salomone, adding that the windows were shuttered and covered in mold.
Joao Batista Groppo and the woman living with him have been arrested on charges of illegal imprisonment. The husband, also 64, told police he had locked up his wife of 42 years because she was mentally ill and aggressive.
Salomone said Groppo had apparently kept his wife imprisoned for two periods totaling 16 years, the second coming after 2003 when their son died in an accident.
The wife showed signs of mental problems that could have been caused by her captivity, Salomone said, but showed no signs of being aggressive and had no serious health problems.
Acting on a tip, police on Wednesday found Sebastiana Aparecida Groppo, 64, in the cellar of the house in the city of Sorocaba in Sao Paulo state.
The floor of the roughly 12-square-meter cellar was littered with feces and dead cockroaches, Sorocaba police inspector Ana Luiza Salomone said on Thursday.
"She was found without clothes, wrapped up in a blanket," said Salomone, adding that the windows were shuttered and covered in mold.
Joao Batista Groppo and the woman living with him have been arrested on charges of illegal imprisonment. The husband, also 64, told police he had locked up his wife of 42 years because she was mentally ill and aggressive.
Salomone said Groppo had apparently kept his wife imprisoned for two periods totaling 16 years, the second coming after 2003 when their son died in an accident.
The wife showed signs of mental problems that could have been caused by her captivity, Salomone said, but showed no signs of being aggressive and had no serious health problems.
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