Rio de Janeiro, 7-30-2022 (AFP) - Brazilian police freed a woman and her two children, who were suffering from advanced malnutrition, after being detained by her husband in appalling conditions for 17 years in Rio de Janeiro, according to a source in the city. Friday police.
The Rio de Janeiro military police, who arrested the patriarch, said in a statement that "the two young men, believed to be the children of the mother and her suspected husband, were bound and malnourished."

The police received a report about this case from an unknown person, and carried out their operation on Thursday in the popular Guaratiba district in the west of the city.

Local media reported that the woman and her two sons, aged 19 and 22, were taken to hospital shortly after their release, suffering from "dehydration and acute malnutrition."

According to the G1 news website, the mother told the authorities that she and her two sons would sometimes go three days without food, and were constantly subjected to physical and psychological abuse.

The mother quoted Luis Antonio Santos Silva, her husband of 23 years, as telling her, "You must stay with me until the end, you will not leave here until you die."

Pictures published by Brazilian media show the two adult boys with a teenage-like body due to malnutrition.

"When we saw the condition the boys were in, we thought they wouldn't live until next week. I tried to talk to the mother in the ambulance, but she couldn't speak because she was very weak," a neighbor of the family told the local G1 website.

Neighbors told the authorities that the father was nicknamed "DJ" because he used to play music to muffle the cries of his victims.

Some indicate that reports were made about this case two years ago, without receiving any response from the authorities.