It's Daddy; I'm Home, Where are the Kids?

In this photo released by the civil police, Jose Agostinho Pereira is seen at a police station in Maranhao state, Brazil, Wednesday, June 9, 2010.

According to police, Pereira kept his daughter imprisoned for 12 years in a remote fishing village, raped her repeatedly and had seven children with her. Police allege that Pereira, 54, kept his daughter, now 28, under virtual house arrest in a two-room, thatched-roof hut near a tiny fishing village in northeastern Brazil.

A police spokesperson, speaking on condition of anonymity because he/she/it was not authorized to speak said the following:

"The place was a pig sty; there was filth, insects, excrement, dead rats, starving children stumbling about in the rubbish in search of a tiny morsel of nourishment, and always, Daddy, stupping his daughter, on the floor, in the trash, standing against a wall of the hut. The girl/woman must have been raped more than 2000 times while she was a captive. The offspring of this incestuous nightmare are retarded, deformed, unable to communicate, chronically ill and constantly on the brink of starvation. The father confessed to everything and said things had just gotten out of control when his wife left him and the children 12 years ago. He told the arresting officers that he couldn't think of anything else to do."

Update: Brazilian police released new information about this ongoing investigation. Mr. Pereira told police the sex with his daughter was consensual and that he had done nothing wrong. He said the daughter apparently had found him to be very attractive and that is what led to the consensual sex, It also was revealed that Pereira recently had began to have intercourse with one his daughter's own daughters, who would be Pereira's granddaughter. Pereira declined to answer when asked if the sex with his granddaughter was also consensual.