Overview

• Police in Paraná say the 51-year-old suspect, arrested in Araucária, denied all accusations during questioning.
• The 29-year-old woman told authorities she escaped on Sept. 16 by saying she would take her children to a clinic and then went to a Civil Police station.
• Officers report seizing surveillance cameras and finding videos on the suspect’s phone, and say the victim received repeated calls and audio messages with threats as she filed her report.
• Authorities say the victim alleged abuse began in childhood, that she was forced into a relationship in her mid-teens, and that she had multiple children with the suspect.
• The suspect is in preventive detention under investigation for crimes including rape, false imprisonment or deprivation of liberty, stalking, threats and psychological violence, and the victim and her children are in protective care; news reports note potential sentences could exceed 100 years if he is convicted.