A woman was held captive, tortured and raped in an old barn for four years by a male suspect dubbed “Poland’s Josef Fritzl”.
The victim, identified only as Malgorzata, now 30, met labourer Mateusz J on a dating website in 2019 and went to visit him in his small village near Glogow, western Poland.
She was then allegedly imprisoned in a disused barn for over four years, being regularly beaten, raped and later impregnated just four metres away from the suspect’s neighbours, local news site myGlogow reports.
Her 35-year-old captor, who was described by locals as a “loner” and “freak”, was arrested this week and now faces up to 25 years in prison on charges of mental, physical and sexual abuse.
In the stone room with a bricked-up window where animals used to be housed, prosecutors say the victim had no access to electricity, running water, a toilet or hygiene products.