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A man was sentenced to 17 years and two months in prison on Wednesday for holding a woman captive for 30 years in Maracay, Venezuela, before she managed to escape, local media reported.
The individual, now 58, was tried for “sexual abuse”, “psychological violence” and “threats”.
He had kidnapped Morella Lopez in 1988, when she was 17, and held her captive for 31 years.
On January 24, 2020, taking advantage of a day when her executioner forgot the keys in the apartment, she manages to escape from the residential complex in which she is locked up.
She goes to a women’s institute and denounces the actions of her captor. Accompanied, she files a complaint against the latter for “kidnapping”.
During investigations, authorities also discover that the man did not stop at this kidnapping: he is involved in other kidnappings and has held several other women captive, in different apartments within the same residence. One of them remained locked up for 24 years.
