Prosecutors seek charges against dad who fathered 7 kids with daughter (San Paulo, Brazil)

We've posted on dad JOSE AGOSTINHO PEREIRA before. Prosecutors say they will now be filing charges against him for imprisoning his daughter for 12 years, raping her, and forcing her to bear 7 children. Note that this is a SINGLE DAD. There was no mother in this home when the sexual abuse occurred. Appears this @$$hole also sexually abused his children/grandchildren with the daughter, too. And it seems another daughter was abused as well, who left the child with Daddy Dearest when she fled the home.

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Brazilian prosecutors seek charges against man who allegedly fathered 7 kids with daughter
By Stan Lehman (CP)

SAO PAULO — Prosecutors said Wednesday they will file criminal charges against a man who allegedly imprisoned his daughter for 12 years and fathered her seven children.

Police have gathered enough evidence in their investigation to charge Jose Agostinho Pereira, prosecutor Alineide Martins Rabelo Costa said.

Authorities say that Pereira kept his daughter a virtual prisoner since 1998 in a thatched-roof hut outside a tiny fishing village in northeastern Brazil. They also say that he abused two of the children he had with his daughter.

If convicted, Pereira could be sentenced to up to 30 years in jail, Costa said.

Pereira allegedly began to sexually abuse the daughter when she was just 12 and after his wife left him. They had their first child four years later.

He was jailed earlier this month in the city of Pinheiro in Maranhao state. His daughter and the children are being cared for by the state's protective care services.

Under Brazilian law, police can detain a suspect without charges until police finish gathering evidence.

Shortly after his arrest, Pereira told local television station TV Cidade: "It's a crime, I know it's a crime. But she was also committing (a crime). I only did it because it was a consenting love. If she had not consented to it, I wouldn't have done it."

Another of Pereira's daughters who is now 31 has told police that her father also raped her and that she fathered his son about 17 years ago. She said that she fled home after giving birth, leaving the child with her father.

Pereira has not obtained a lawyer and will likely be defended by a court-appointed attorney, Costa said.

Costa said she plans to file charges against Pereira within five days.