In the hell of Rio de Janeiro where the evil husband – nicknamed DJ because of the loud music he used to hide the screams of his victims – imprisoned his wife and two grown children for 17 YEARS
- Gruesome Photos Reveal Life in ‘Private Prison’ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- A mother and her two children had to live in a tiny cabin for 17 years
- They were tied up, starved and never allowed to leave the house
- But they were released today for the first time in nearly two decades after a raid
- Man arrested for allegedly using loud music to drown out screams
A secluded cabin, crumbling walls and filthy bedding. These were the horrific conditions in which a mother and her two children had to survive as they desperately clung to life in… Brazilthe second city.
Horrible photos reveal the reality of life in a house of horrors in Rio de Janeiro, where an evil husband forced his wife and her two grown children to live as prisoners for nearly twenty years.
The woman and her children, who were 19 and 22 years old according to local media, were kept tied up inside and suffered severe dehydration and malnutrition during the 17 years they were held captive.
Eyewitnesses claim the two children appear to be no older than 10 or 11 after more than a decade of severe and debilitating abuse.
Rio’s military police were finally alerted to the tiny shack in an area of significant social deprivation in western Rio de Janeiro – known for its extreme poverty.
Officers found the three desperate inmates “tied up, soiled and starving,” police revealed in a statement shortly after the arrest of the father, Luiz Antonio Santos Silva.
Reportedly known as ‘DJ’ by locals in Guaratiba for the loud music he used to muffle his victims’ screams, Silva was arrested following an anonymous tip.
Horrible photos reveal the reality of life in a house of horrors in Rio de Janeiro where an evil husband forced his wife and her two grown children to live as prisoners for nearly twenty years
Rio’s military police were finally alerted to this tiny shack in an area of significant social deprivation west of Rio de Janeiro – known for its extreme poverty.
Reportedly known as ‘DJ’ by locals in Guaratiba for the loud music he used to muffle his victims’ screams, Luiz Antonio Santos Silva (above) was arrested following an anonymous tip.
According to G1 news, the mother told authorities that she and her children would sometimes go three days without food and were regularly subjected to physical and psychological abuse.
She was never allowed to work and her children were not allowed to go to school.
The woman had often tried to flee from her husband’s clutches, but he threatened to kill her if she did, it was alleged.
Her husband, Luiz Antonio Santos Silva, to whom she had been married for 23 years, had told her she would not leave his house “until you are dead,” she said.
Officers found the three desperate inmates “tied up, soiled and starving,” police revealed in a statement shortly after the arrest of the father, Luiz Antonio Santos Silva
The mother told authorities that she and her children sometimes went three days without food and were regularly subjected to physical and psychological abuse
In photos published by Brazilian media, the adult children looked like teenagers because of their malnutrition.
“When we saw the condition of the two children, we thought they wouldn’t have survived a week,” an unnamed resident of the Guaratiba neighborhood, where the family lived, told G1.
“I tried to talk to the mother in the ambulance, but she was so weak she couldn’t make a sound.”
Neighbors told authorities that the suspect was nicknamed DJ because he would turn up the music to mask the screams of his victims.
An investigation into Silva’s alleged crimes is underway.