Eleuterio Soria Of Argentina Pulled A Fritzl, Imprisoned And Raped Daughter

Remember Josef Fritzl? How could you not, what with having quotidian nightmares about him. It seems that a man in Argentina named Eleuterio Soria committed a very similar series of crimes. And by very similar we mean “exactly the same” unless you’re prosecutor Sergio Antin, in which case its only “kind of exactly the same:”

“If we’re talking about sexual subjugation, and we take into account that the victim did not leave the house, yes, there are similarities” to the Fritzl case, government prosecutor Sergio Antin said after Soria was sentenced on Tuesday.

Well, yeah. What else are we talking about here, exactly?

Soria’s trial revealed that he began abusing his daughter in 1992, when she was 12 years old. The following year she became pregnant by her father, prompting her mother to leave their home in La Matanza, a working-class Buenos Aires district. The family’s five other siblings eventually left as well.

The daughter, whose name was not released, had a second child by her father in 1997. Unlike Fritzl, Soria used psychological domination rather than physical restraints to keep her in the house. She did flee on various occasions, but would return home after he threatened their two children — often at gunpoint.

Christ.

She finally escaped for good in 2003 and denounced her father to authorities. Argentine psychologists weren’t surprised that it took her more than a decade to tell authorities.

“If the world inside was so perverted, how could she think that the world beyond would help her?” Cristina Castillo, a family psychologist in Buenos Aires, asked Wednesday.

Shame also keeps incest victims from coming forward, said Maria Elen Leuzzi, founder of Help for Rape Victims, who believes the problem is much bigger than society is willing to admit.

“Here we have many Josef Fritzls,” she said.

Well. What to say? We don’t quite understand how someone could hurt a child, especially one’s own, repeatedly and without any sort of remorse. We don’t understand why people who are obviously unstable are not directed towards proper treatment by friends or family. And we don’t understand how someone can read a story like this and not have to take a break for a while. So, if you’ll excuse us, that’s just what we’re going to do for a bit.

Argentine Man Sentenced for Keeping Daughter As Sexual Prisoner, Fathering 2 Children by Her [FOX News]