Police investigating claims that a Polish man imprisoned and raped his daughter are seeking DNA samples from the two children she alleges he fathered.
The 21-year-old woman told police she was held captive for six years and forced to give the two boys up for adoption. Police were trying to find them to determine if the accused man is their father.
The case bears a striking similarity to that of Austrian Josef Fritzl, accused of holding his daughter in a cellar for 24 years, repeatedly sexually abusing her and fathering her seven children.
The case in Poland involves a 45-year-old man identified only as Krzysztof B, in keeping with Polish privacy laws. Police detained him on Friday in the eastern city of Siedlce after his wife and daughter came forward with the allegations.
“We have the hospital records of the children, and we will try to find them and carry out DNA tests” to determine their paternity, national police spokesman Mariusz Sokolowski said.
The woman told police that her father raped her repeatedly while keeping her captive in a room with no door handles. Krzysztof B’s wife, identified only as Teresa B, corroborated the account, police said.
The victim’s mother was quoted as saying she was aware of what was happening with her daughter, but did not go to police for fear her husband would carry out his threats to kill her.
The case has been handed over to prosecutors who are now conducting the investigation, regional police spokesman Jacek Dobrzynski said.
AP