Husband and lover keep wife locked in cellar for SIXTEEN years


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Under arrest: Handcuffed Joao Batista Groppo talks to the press following his arrest on suspicion of illegal imprisonment


A Brazilian man has been arrested on suspicion of keeping his wife locked in a squalid cellar for 16 years while he lived with another woman in the same house.

Police found Sebastiana Aparecida Groppo, 64, in the cellar of the house in the city of Sorocaba in Sao Paulo state on Wednesday acting on a tip-off.

The floor of the roughly 130-square-foot cellar was littered with faeces and dead cockroaches.

'She was found without clothes, wrapped up in a blanket,' Sorocaba police inspector Ana Luiza Salomone said, adding that the windows had been shuttered and were covered in mould.

Joao Batista Groppo and the woman who had been living with him were both arrested on charges of illegal imprisonment. The husband, also 64, told police that 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 totalling 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.

Groppo and his companion could face up to eight years in prison.

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na wah ooo,

if you marry na problem, if you no marry sef na problem.

God save us

they face only 8 years of jail time,after denying the poor woman her life and freedom for 16years!!!! sheeeesh,who says justice is just

Stale

Girls now y'all need to be more careful

BTW,doesn't abused woman have relatives? they should resort to jungle justice and serve the idiotic joao baptista what he deserves

I agree with the topic. Married ladies need to keep in touch with their family. But in this age of GSM and all I doubt if this can happen to a modern day Nigerian wife.

wat sort of justice is dis

It never ceases to amaze me the extent of human's capacity for evil