Watch cops race to find screaming girl, 9, hogtied in Fritzl-style dungeon before captor is beaten to death by lynch mob
HORROR footage shows how cops found a screaming girl tied up in a Fritzl-style dungeon before her alleged captor was killed by a vengeful mob.
The missing nine-year-old had been desperately screaming for help from the underground lair in Tramandaí, southwest of São Paulo, Brazil, when hero officers rushed to help her on Wednesday.
Moments after she was rescued from the hellhole, she quickly pointed out her alleged abductor who was later lynched by an angry mob.
The man, identified as Marco Antônio Bocker Jacob allegedly lured the girl into his shop with an ice lolly before tying her up and stuffing her into the dungeon underneath.
He then blocked the trap door with piles of beer crates, it is claimed.
Bodycam footage shows cops scrambling to remove the crates, smashing bottles in the process, and prying open the door with a crowbar.
They eventually got through to find the terrified child with her hands tied.
When she realised she was being rescued, the girl pointed and screamed: “It was him, he abused me.”
The girl was quickly passed over to her family who clutched her tightly and sobbed.
The 61-year-old was arrested at the scene but as word spread around the local area, an angry mob gathered and beat him.
The store owner’s shop and car were also vandalised by the furious group who launched any missiles they could find at his property.
Despite calls for back up from cops, the lynching continued.
Eventually, it took rubber bullets, tear gas, and pepper spray to tear the mob away from Jacob.
By then he was badly hurt and was taken to an emergency care unit where he was later pronounced dead.
After the hellish ordeal, the girl told officers more about the Fritzl-like hell she had endured.
Sgt Christian Pacheco told local media: “We pulled her up by the arm, and she went straight into a colleague’s arms.
“We successfully got her out of there, placed her in an unmarked vehicle with her family, and took her to the emergency care unit for initial treatment.”
The girl had been reported missing by her family on Tuesday after she failed to come home from playing in a local square with her friends.
As residents joined in the search for the child, her father went to the store and became instantly suspicious of Jacob.
He allegedly had a scratch on his face, was acting strangely, and blasted loud music through the speakers.
It was enough for the distraught father to call the police who confirmed the girl was on CCTV entering the store.
When officers stormed the property, they heard her muffled cries.
Police believe she had been underground for around 12 hours by the time she was rescued on Wednesday.
Jacob had previously been convicted for femicide, drug trafficking, vehicle theft, animal cruelty, and bodily harm, they said.
He had been placed under house arrest since January and police are now looking into the abuse that has been reported by the girl.
Her mother said: “I’ll give her whatever she wants. I’ll do everything I can to make her happy help her forget this.”
The girl’s case appears to echo that of Elisabeth Fritzl who was abused by her evil father Josef for years in his cellar in Austria.
Josef Fritzl's crimes
THE twisted dad asks his daughter Elisabeth to help him install a door in his cellar in 1984.
She agreed and moments later she is drugged with an ether-soaked towel, tied up and chained to a bed.
She would spend the next 24 years locked up in the hellish prison in Amstetten.
Evil Fritzl went on to rape her over 3,000 times in a rat-infested bunker.
He would beat and kick her and force her into degrading acts – including re-enacting scenes from violent porn films.
Elisabeth gave birth to seven babies in the cellar with no medical care.
Kerstin, born 1988, Stefan (1990) and Felix (2002) were left to live with their mum in the underground hellhole.
But Lisa, (born 1992) Monica (1994) and Alexander (1996) – were raised upstairs, by Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie after he convinced her they were left on the doorstep by Elisabeth.
Alexander’s twin Michael died shortly after birth with cruel Fritzl tossing his body in an incinerator.
The family’s nightmare sees Fritzl threatening them if they dare to escape and punishing them by switching off the electricity.
Their nightmare comes to an end when Kerstin fell critically ill in 2008.
Fritzl allowed Elisabeth to take her to the hospital where she revealed the shocking horrors she had suffered.
Despite trying to argue he was trying to be a protective father, Fritzl was sentenced to life in prison in 2009.