Emma Crabtree
HORROR footage shows how cops found a screaming girl tied up in a Fritzl-style dungeon before her alleged captor was killed by a vengeful mob
The missing nine-year-old had been desperately screaming for help from the underground lair in Tramandaí, southwest of São Paulo, Brazil
when hero officers rushed to help her on Wednesday
Moments after she was rescued from the hellhole
she quickly pointed out her alleged abductor who was later lynched by an angry mob
identified as Marco Antônio Bocker Jacob allegedly lured the girl into his shop with an ice lolly before tying her up and stuffing her into the dungeon underneath
He then blocked the trap door with piles of beer crates
Bodycam footage shows cops scrambling to remove the crates
When she realised she was being rescued, the girl pointed and screamed: "It was him, he abused me."
The girl was quickly passed over to her family who clutched her tightly and sobbed.
The 61-year-old was arrested at the scene but as word spread around the local area, an angry mob gathered and beat him.
and pepper spray to tear the mob away from Jacob
By then he was badly hurt and was taken to an emergency care unit where he was later pronounced dead
After the hellish ordeal, the girl told officers more about the Fritzl-like hell she had endured
Sgt Christian Pacheco told local media: "We pulled her up by the arm
and she went straight into a colleague’s arms
"We successfully got her out of there
placed her in an unmarked vehicle with her family
and took her to the emergency care unit for initial treatment."
The girl had been reported missing by her family on Tuesday after she failed to come home from playing in a local square with her friends
As residents joined in the search for the child
her father went to the store and became instantly suspicious of Jacob
and blasted loud music through the speakers
It was enough for the distraught father to call the police who confirmed the girl was on CCTV entering the store
Police believe she had been underground for around 12 hours by the time she was rescued on Wednesday
Jacob had previously been convicted for femicide
He had been placed under house arrest since January and police are now looking into the abuse that has been reported by the girl
Her mother said: "I'll give her whatever she wants
I'll do everything I can to make her happy help her forget this."
The girl's case appears to echo that of Elisabeth Fritzl who was abused by her evil father Josef for years in his cellar in Austria
THE twisted dad asks his daughter Elisabeth to help him install a door in his cellar in 1984
She agreed and moments later she is drugged with an ether-soaked towel
She would spend the next 24 years locked up in the hellish prison in Amstetten
Evil Fritzl went on to rape her over 3,000 times in a rat-infested bunker
He would beat and kick her and force her into degrading acts - including re-enacting scenes from violent porn films
Elisabeth gave birth to seven babies in the cellar with no medical care
Stefan (1990) and Felix (2002) were left to live with their mum in the underground hellhole
(born 1992) Monica (1994) and Alexander (1996) - were raised upstairs
by Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie after he convinced her they were left on the doorstep by Elisabeth
Alexander's twin Michael died shortly after birth with cruel Fritzl tossing his body in an incinerator
The family's nightmare sees Fritzl threatening them if they dare to escape and punishing them by switching off the electricity
Their nightmare comes to an end when Kerstin fell critically ill in 2008
Fritzl allowed Elisabeth to take her to the hospital where she revealed the shocking horrors she had suffered
Despite trying to argue he was trying to be a protective father, Fritzl was sentenced to life in prison in 2009
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Floods that have killed at least 85 people in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul have completely halted operations in three ports as well as put a stop to nearly all logistical operations in the state
According to the Civil Defense of Rio Grande do Sul
over 19,000 people have been made homeless
with around 150,000 displaced in nearly 350 municipalities
Inchcape Shipping Services claimed that the ports of Porto Alegre
and Tramandai were completely shut down and that the heavy rains flooded the state capital of Porto Alegre with the river level five meters above the usual level
The Porto Alegre’s Salgado Filho International Airport is also flooded
All discharge and loading operations in the port are stopped with no forecast for return while all flights are cancelled
The airport is also used for crew changes in the ports
With the floods closing both the airport and the ports
crew changes are on hold until further notice
Transport links and energy supplies have been cut as well
The immense rain also caused the dam of the 100MW 14 de Julho hydroelectric plant on the Antas River to rupture last week
Power generation company Companhia Energetica Rio das Antas
implemented an emergency evacuation plan on May 1
Brazilian steelmaker Gerdau suspended its operations in two mills until it can ensure people’s protection and safety
and logistics company Rumo partially interrupted operations and said that damages to assets are still being properly measured
Petrochemical giant Braskem shut down its facilities at the Triunfo petrochemical complex as a preventive measure because of extreme weather events on May 3
and it currently has no estimate for the resumption of activities there
Braskem operates eight industrial units in Rio Grande do Sul that make 5m tonnes per year of basic petrochemicals
Much of Rio Grande do Sul has been hit by persistent
rainfall volumes have exceeded 300 mm in less than a week
Porto Alegre received 258.6 mm of rainfall in just three days
This figure corresponds to more than two months of rain compared to the normal for April and May
Due to the massive damages from the natural disaster
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva asked Congress on Monday to recognise a state of public calamity for the heavy rains which would allow extra government spending with no need to comply with a spending cap stipulated by fiscal rules approved last year
The floods have rekindled memories of the huge rains that collapsed a dam in Brazil in 2015 which resulted in the deaths of 19 people and floods in dozens of towns
The dam was at an iron ore mine owned by Samarco
a joint venture between Brazil’s Vale and the Anglo-Australian miner BHP
A few days after these recent rains started
Vale and BHP proposed paying a nearly $25bn settlement to repair the damages caused by the collapse
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A woman is behind bars in Brazil after she confessed murdering her seven-year-old son and stuffing his body into a duffle bag before dumping him in a river
Yasmin Rodrigues, 26, was taken into custody in Rio Grande do Sul last Thursday after the Civil Police discovered several inconsistencies in her report about her Miguel dos Santos' disappearance, according to Brazilian digital news outlet G1.
Her girlfriend, Bruna Porto, was also apprehended Sunday. However, Rodrigues told authorities that Porto, who has autism, was not directly involved in the plot.
Rodrigues visited the Tramandaí Police Station last Thursday to report that Miguel had gone missing two days earlier in the nearby city of Imbé.
Police chief Antonio Ractz said that Rodrigues claimed she failed to report her son's disappearance immediately because she had checked on Google and learned that she had to wait 48 hours to file a police report.
During the questioning, Rodrigues eventually admitted to giving medicine to Miguel and then placing his body in a large gym bag without knowing if he was dead.
Ractz said that Rodrigues left her home and avoided police detection by staying off the main avenues, instead traveling along streets that did not have a lot of pedestrian and vehicle activity before tossing dos Santos' body into the Tramandaí River, which runs through the border of Tramandaí and Imbé and connects with the Atlantic Ocean.
Following Rodrigues' murder confession, authorities searching her home recovered a chain that was used to restrain dos Santos inside a closet.
Investigators also discovered a video in which Porto threatened to beat dos Santos with a stick if he peed on himself.
'If you piss (on yourself) I'll take your piss and rub it in your face,' Bruno is heard telling Miguel in Portuguese. 'Do you understand? And it will be very easy for me.'
On Tuesday, investigators discovered a notebook with two pages in which Rodrigues allegedly forced Miguel to write down phrases that harmed his self-esteem.
The defenseless boy wrote: 'I'm an idiot. I don't deserve the mom I have. I am a thief. I'm bad. I am cruel. I am evil. I'm no good. I don't know how to value nothing. I am a horrible son.'
'What is already clear and we will confirm during the investigations is that the child was living under intense physical and psychological torture,' Ractz said.
'He was malnourished. Although he was enrolled in school, had no friends, did not go anywhere. Was locked in a room in the house, placed in punishment, locked and tied inside a closet.'
G1 reported that Rodrigues had agreed in principle to relinquish the custody of her son to her mother. The woman filed a petition with the city of Casca on June 8 and was instructed to provide a series of documents in order to begin the process.
Rodrigues submitted the required documents July 8, but she was notified last Wednesday - the day that she reportedly killed her son - that other documents showing proof of income and residence were still missing.
Local authorities or the Mateus Dal Pozzo School that dos Santos attended did not have complaints of the child's abuse.
Military Fire Department lieutenant Elísio Lucrécio told G1 on Wednesday that drones had already been deployed as part of the search efforts to recover dos Santos' body from the river, which has been checked by a search-and-rescue team of divers.
Divers were expected to also search the shores of the Atlantic Ocean.
A fisherman recovered children-sized slippers in the area, but the mother told cops she was not sure what type of footwear the boy had when she dumped him in the river.
Authorities have not discarded searching other areas in Tramandaí and Imbe in the event that Rodrigues may have dumped the body elsewhere.
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