A MAN dubbed “Poland’s Josef Fritzl” has been arrested after being accused of locking a woman in a barn and raping her for four years.
The suspect, Mateusz J, has been charged with mental, physical, and sexual abuse and now faces 25 years behind bars after the victim made a miraculous escape.
His accuser claimed the pair met on a dating app in 2019 when she was in her 20s.
She alleges she was lured to Western Poland by Mateusz J and was subjected to repeated beatings, rape and mental torment.
During the four years in captivity she also claims she was made pregnant by the suspect.
The 35-year-old suspect took the victim to a nearby hospital to give birth before forcing her to give up the child for adoption, Polish outlet myGlogow reports.
His alleged victim, now 30, told the Telegraph: “I couldn’t tell the doctors the truth, I was afraid, and he threatened me that if I complained, it would get even worse.”
Prosecutors say she was forced to live in an old, unused animal barn.
She reportedly had no access to hygiene products, running water, a toilet, electricity or heating for the four years in captivity.
She was only allowed out of the dark, stone building on rare occasions, prosecutors allege.
They say the suspect would aim to humiliate and control the victim by only letting her out with a hood over her eyes or in a balaclava.
Leaving her void of sunlight and no way of knowing where she was during her period of torment.
The barn reportedly sat just 13ft away from Mateusz J’s unsuspecting neighbours.
Locals described the suspect as a “loner” and a “freak”.
The alleged victim managed to alert hospital staff of her chilling situation on August 27 after she went to receive treatment on a dislocated shoulder.
The victim had been to the hospital in Glogow on several occasions over the past four year, prosecutors said this week.
They accused Mateusz J of breaking her arm and her leg.
Last year, she also needed surgery for a separate injury.
She told myGlogow after getting free: “Sometimes he would just spray me with a hose, but if I was obedient, I would get warm water.
“I was beaten and not given food. He only fed me better when I had no strength left, when my chest hurt.
“He was probably afraid that I would die.”
Mateusz J has denied any wrongdoing since being arrested and charged on August 30.
The horror case has a number of similarities to the Josef Fritzl one which shocked the world in 2009 when the disturbed father was jailed.
Fritzl was found to have kept his daughter Elisabeth captive in their basement for 24 years in 1984 after drugging her and chaining her to a bed.
Elisabeth says she was raped thousands of times by her twisted father with Fritzl going on to have seven children with her.
Josef Fritzl has spent the last 15 years behind bars after he confessed to raping and imprisoning his daughter over a horrific 24-year period.
1977: Fritzl’s daughter Elisabeth claims she was abused for the first time as an 11-year-old
August 28, 1984: Fritzl asks Elisabeth to help him install a door in his cellar before drugging her with an ether-soaked towel
The daughter is tied up and chained to a bed for the next 24-years
August 29, 1984: Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie report their daughter missing
1988-1990: The first children are born after Fritzl continuously rapes Elisabeth – Kerstin first followed by Stefan
May 19, 1993: Nine-month-old baby named Lisa found on the families doorstep with a ‘letter from Elisabeth’ – Rosemarie raises Lisa with Fritzl
December 15, 1994: Monika is also found outside by the parents and once again looked after
1996: Elisabeth gives birth to twins Alexander and Michael but Michael dies at birth due to breathing issues and is tossed in an incinerator
1997: Alexander appears outside the house just like Lisa and Monika and is taken in
December 2002: The final child is born in the cellar as Felix is kept trapped in the hellhole with his two other siblings
April 19, 2008: Kerstin, 19, becomes seriously ill and needs medical help so is taken by Fritzl to the hospital in Amstetten
April 19-26, 2008: Elisabeth is allowed to leave the cellar with her two children after police ask to contact Kerstin’s mother
April 26, 2008: Police arrest Fritzl, who is with Elisabeth near the hospital
April 27, 2008: Cops explore underground cellar as all the siblings meet for the first time
April 28, 2008: Fritzl confesses to his horrific crimes
2009: Fritzl sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to rape, false imprisonment, manslaughter by negligence and incest
March 2024: The perverted pensioner becomes eligible for parole after 15-years behind bars
April 30, 2024: Fritzl is moved from a high security prison to a normal one
