The UK’s Daily Mail newspaper has picked up Dominican press reports on the case of Jose Altagracia Lantigua, who is accused of kidnapping a teenager, Maribel Altagracia Lopez and fathering eight children with her during a terrifying 12-year hostage ordeal.
Lopez said her alleged kidnapper stopped her from seeing family and friends after persuading an aunt to let her go with her him so she could work as his maid.
She said: “I went with him because I thought I was going to work but he took me to a house that was being built and has always been abandoned in a community called Loma de los Cocos in Pedro Brand where he sexually abused me.”
She claimed Lantigua forced her to hide in a locked room whenever anyone came to the house and said none of the children had ever been to school.
She escaped during a row between her alleged kidnapper and a daughter he is said to have fathered with another woman.
Lantigua, who is protesting his innocence, was arrested by police and is currently being held on remand in prison.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2556114/The-Caribbean-Fritzl-Man-arrested-Dominican-Republic-accused-kidnapping-teenager-fathering-EIGHT-children-12-year-capitivity.html
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