aChildren aged 19-22 who were held with their mothers for 17 years had no contact with people other than their parents.
These new details of the horror story that occurred in Guaratiba, in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, were provided by the newspaper G1, who spoke to the sister of the mother of these young men.
“Actually, they’ve never seen anyone before. They’ve only seen her and they’ve seen him. They haven’t seen anyone. So even putting them in people’s lives is a bit difficult,” says the woman in charge of the complaint.
The mother and her two children, 22 and 19, were discharged from the hospital on Friday night, July 29, and were taken to the family’s home. These three victims of Luis Antonio Santos Silva have been hospitalized at Rocha Faria Hospital since Thursday after being rescued.
The woman assumes that now she does not know what to do because she left that house, after 17 years, with nothing or conditions to live on her own.
It is reported that Luis Antonio Santos Silva was arrested on Thursday after an anonymous tip. He is accused of kidnapping, ill-treatment and torture.
According to the woman, her husband did not allow her to work and did not allow her children to go to school and was physically and psychologically violent.
The attacker even left the three without food for three days. When they tried to scream, I played loud music to mute the screaming.
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