A man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 12 years and fathering her seven children called their relationship consensual on Thursday, while a second daughter told authorities she was abused by her father and bore him a son.
Police say Jose Agostinho Pereira, 54, could face up to 30 years in prison for allegedly keeping one of his daughters and their children in subhuman conditions in a two-room hut in an isolated, jungle area in northeastern Brazil.
In a jailhouse interview, Pereira remained defiant about the accusations that he had seven children with his 28-year-old daughter.
“It’s a crime, I know it’s a crime. But she was also committing it,” Pereira told local television station TV Cidade from his jail cell. “I only did it because it was a consenting love. If she had not consented to it, I wouldn’t have done it.”
Lead investigator Adriana Meireles said that another of Pereira’s daughters — who is now 31-years-old — is accusing him of abuse.
“The woman confirmed to us that her father raped her and that she had a son about 17 years ago,” Meireles said “The woman said she escaped from the home shortly after she gave birth to the boy and left him with her father.”
Police say Pereira started sexually abusing his now 28-year-old daughter after his wife left him, when she was just 12. The pair had their first child four years later.
They and their seven children lived in a thatched-roof hut, outside a tiny fishing village in Maranhao state, an area so remote it can only be reached by canoe.
He was jailed on Tuesday in the city of Pinheiro, about 2,250km north of Rio de Janeiro. His daughter and the children are being cared for by the state’s protective care services.
Under Brazilian law, prosecutors only file charges after police have ended their investigation, which is expected to take another 10 days.
Paiva said police were tipped off about Pereira’s behavior by anonymous phone calls.
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