BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A 73-year-old Argentine man who fathered two children with a young daughter he kept as his sexual prisoner will serve 16 years in prison.
Prosecuting Attorney Sergio Antin said the case of Eleuterio Soria had similarities to that of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man arrested last month for locking his daughter in a basement for 24 years.
Soria’s trial revealed that he began abusing his daughter in 1992, when she was 12. The following year she became pregnant by her father, prompting her mother to leave their home. The family’s five other siblings eventually left as well.
The daughter, whose name was not released, had a second child by her father in 1997. Unlike Fritzl, Soria used psychological domination rather than physical restraints to keep her in the house. She did flee on various occasions, but would return home after he threatened their two children — often at gunpoint.
She escaped for good in 2003.
