SAO PAULO, Brazil -- A man in Brazil locked up his wife in a cellar for 16 long years as he lived upstairs with another woman, it was reported here.Joao Batista Groppo(right photo) has been arrested on suspicion of keeping his wife locked in the squalid cellar for 16 years, the Daily Mail reported Friday.
- Sixtyfour-year-old Sebastiana Aparecida Groppo was found by the police in the cellar of the house in the city of Sorocaba in Sao Paulo state Wednesday.
- The woman was living in pitiable conditions as the fhe floor of the cellar was littered with faeces and dead cockroaches.
- “She was found without clothes, wrapped up in a blanket,” police official Ana Luiza Salomone was quoted as saying. He said the windows had been shuttered and were covered in mould.
- Joao Batista told police that he had locked up his wife of 42 years as she was mentally ill and aggressive.
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